M&A Deal Summary

National Instruments Acquires Signalion

On December 10, 2012, National Instruments acquired test/measurement equipment company Signalion

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is National Instruments’ 2nd transaction in the Test/Measurement Equipment sector.
  • This is National Instruments’ 1st transaction in Germany.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2012-12-10
Target Signalion
Sector Test/Measurement Equipment
Buyer(s) National Instruments
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Signalion

Dresden, Germany
Signalion offers test and measurement products and services for wireless communications along with highly specialized consulting services in mobile communications.

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Buyer

National Instruments

Austin, Texas, United States
Category Company
Founded 1976
Sector Test/Measurement Equipment
Employees7,000
Revenue 1.7B USD (2022)
DESCRIPTION
Entrance to National Instruments' corporate headquarters in Austin, Texas.
Entrance to National Instruments' corporate headquarters in Austin, Texas.

National Instruments designs, manufactures and sells systems to engineers and scientists that accelerate productivity, innovation and discovery. The Company's platform-based approach to engineering provides an integrated software and hardware platform that speeds the development of systems needing measurement and control. National Instruments was formed in 1976 and is based in Austin, Texas.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 4 of 11
Sector (Test/Measurement Equipment) 2 of 3
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 4 of 10
Country (Germany) 1 of 3
Year (2012) 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-05-23 Phase Matrix

San Jose, California, United States

Phase Matrix, Inc. that designs and manufactures RF and microwave test-and-measurement (T&M) instruments, subsystems and components.

Buy $38M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-03-23 BEEcube

Fremont, California, United States

BEEcube, Inc. is a technology innovator and supplier of advanced all programmable real-time signal processing platforms used in communications, defense, education and research for real-time prototyping, academic research, military communications, surveillance/signal intelligence and advanced wireless research/5G and infrastructure deployment.

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