M&A Deal Summary

NeuStar Acquires Transaction Network Services - Caller Authentication Assets

On September 9, 2015, NeuStar acquired communications company Transaction Network Services - Caller Authentication Assets from Transaction Network Services for 220M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is NeuStar’s 1st transaction in the Communications sector.
  • This is NeuStar’s 3rd largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is NeuStar’s 11th transaction in the United States.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2015-09-09
Target Transaction Network Services - Caller Authentication Assets
Sector Communications
Buyer(s) NeuStar
Sellers(s) Transaction Network Services
Deal Type Divestiture
Deal Value 220M USD

Target

Transaction Network Services - Caller Authentication Assets

United States
Transaction Network Services - Caller Authentication Assets is a provider of communication services.

Search 201,893 Deals Now

SEARCH BY

  • Buyer Type (PE or Strategic)
  • Deal Size ($10M to $10B+)
  • Sector (60 Sectors)
  • Deal Type
  • Geography
  • & More

Try For Free 7-Day Free Trial

Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

NeuStar

Reston, Virginia, United States
Category Company
Founded 1996
Sector Information Services
Revenue 1.1B USD (2015)
DESCRIPTION

NeuStar is a global information services provider driving the connected world forward with trusted, holistic identity resolution. The company serves many of the world’s brands to grow and guard their businesses with the most complete understanding of how to connect people, places, and things. The combination of Neustar’s unique, accurate and real-time identity system and its cloud-based workflow solutions empower businesses to make actionable, precise, and valuable decisions across marketing, risk, IT/security, network & operations departments. As the current sole provider to the U.S. Number Portability Administration Center, Neustar also facilitates the routing of all telephone call and text messages in the U.S. NeuStar was formed in 1996 and is based in Sterling, Virginia.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 13 of 17
Sector (Communications) 1 of 1
Type (Divestiture) 2 of 4
Country (United States) 11 of 15
Year (2015) 2 of 3
Size (of disclosed) 3 of 9
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-07-30 Bombora Technologies Pty

Melbourne, Australia

Bombora Technologies Pty Ltd. is a provider of domain name registry services.

Buy AU$119M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-11-05 MarketShare Partners

Los Angeles, California, United States

MarketShare Partners LLC is a provider of cloud-based information services, enabling marketing and IT security professionals to promote and protect their businesses.

Buy $450M

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Transaction Network Services

Reston, Virginia, United States
Category Company
Founded 1990
Sector Communications
DESCRIPTION

Transaction Network Services is a provider of fast, reliable data communications services for transaction-oriented applications. TNS combines innovation, advanced technology, and industry expertise to provide a range of authorization and communications solutions to support the credit card and ATM transaction processing industry. The Company also provides secure and highly reliable data network services to the telecommunications and securities industries. Transaction Network Services was formed in 1990 and is based in Reston, Virginia.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 2
Sector (Communications) 1 of 1
Type (Divestiture) 2 of 2
Country (United States) 2 of 2
Year (2015) 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-11-06 TNS Payment Gateway Services

United States

TNS Payment Gateway Services is the gateway services business of Transaction Network Services.

Sell -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2018-10-16 ADVAM PTY

Adelaide, Australia

ADVAM PTY Ltd. is a provider of unattended payments and eCommerce solutions to the parking, airport, shopping center, government and self-service sectors. ADVAM PTY Ltd. was founded in 2004 and is based in Adelaide, Australia.

Buy -
Mergr

Product

Company

Legal