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S&P Global Acquires ORBCOMM - Automatic Identification System

On April 24, 2025, S&P Global acquired communications company ORBCOMM - Automatic Identification System from ORBCOMM

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is S&P Global’s 1st transaction in the Communications sector.
  • This is S&P Global’s 16th transaction in the United States.
  • This is S&P Global’s 2nd transaction in Virginia.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2025-04-24
Target ORBCOMM - Automatic Identification System
Sector Communications
Buyer(s) S&P Global
Sellers(s) ORBCOMM
Deal Type Divestiture

Target

ORBCOMM - Automatic Identification System

Sterling, Virginia, United States
ORBCOMM's Automatic Identification System is a provider of satellite data services used to track and monitor vessels, enhancing maritime visibility and delivering critical insights that support business intelligence and decision-making for government and commercial clients worldwide. ORBCOMM's Automatic Identification System is based in Sterling, Virginia.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

S&P Global

New York, New York, United States
Category Company
Founded 1860
Sector Information Services
Employees40,450
Revenue 14.2B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION

S&P Global is a financial intelligence company providing the global capital and commodity markets with independent benchmarks, credit ratings, portfolio and enterprise risk solutions, and analytics. The company's brands include Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, S&P Capital IQ, S&P Dow Jones Indices, Platts, CRISIL, J.D. Power and McGraw Hill Construction. S&P Global was founded in 1860 and is based in New York City.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 20 of 22
Sector: Communications M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 3 of 3
State: Virginia M&A 2 of 2
Country: United States M&A 16 of 16
Year: 2025 M&A 2 of 4
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2025-04-14 OSTTRA

London, United Kingdom

OSTTRA is a critical infrastructure provider in the post-trade space, processing over 80 million trades monthly. OSTTRA was formed in 2021 and is based in London.

Sell $3.1B
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2025-06-09 TeraHelix

London, United Kingdom

TeraHelix helps solve complex, enterprise-scale data challenges by providing frameworks that structure data models for smooth interoperability across platforms, systems, and storage architectures. TeraHelix is based in London, United Kingdom.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

ORBCOMM

Sterling, Virginia, United States
Category Company
Founded 2001
Sector Communications
Employees786
Revenue 272M USD (2019)
DESCRIPTION

ORBCOMM is a wireless data communications company, provides machine-to-machine communication solutions. ORBCOMM was founded in 2001 and is based in Sterling, Virginia.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Communications M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 1 of 1
State: Virginia M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2025 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-10-02 Blue Tree Systems

Galway, Ireland

Blue Tree Systems Ltd. is a provider of transportation management solutions across multiple classes of assets that include trucks, refrigerated straight trucks as well as refrigerated and dry trailers. Blue Tree serves more than 300 customers in North America, the European Union, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand.

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