M&A Deal Summary

VeriSign Acquires CallVision

On January 11, 2006, VeriSign acquired consumer services company CallVision from DAG Private Equity for 30M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is VeriSign’s 1st transaction in the Consumer Services sector.
  • This is VeriSign’s 14th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is VeriSign’s 11th transaction in the United States.
  • This is VeriSign’s 2nd transaction in Washington.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2006-01-11
Target CallVision
Sector Consumer Services
Buyer(s) VeriSign
Sellers(s) DAG Private Equity
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 30M USD
Advisor(s) Cascadia Capital (Financial)

Target

CallVision

Seattle, Washington, United States
CallVision is a provider of e-billing and related customer relationship management applications which enable clients to leverage billing data into richer and more valuable online interactions with their customers.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

VeriSign

Reston, Virginia, United States

Category Company
Founded 1995
Sector Information Technology
Employees907
Revenue 1.6B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION
Entrance to VerSign's corporate headquarters in Reston, Virginia.
Entrance to VerSign's corporate headquarters in Reston, Virginia.

VeriSign provides domain name registry services to power the navigation of the Internet by operating a global infrastructure for a portfolio of top-level domains that includes .com, .net, .tv, .edu, .gov, .jobs, .name and .cc as well as two of the world’s 13 Internet root servers. The company's product suite also includes Network Intelligence and Availability Services, consisting of Distributed Denial of Service Protection Services, Verisign iDefense Security Intelligence Services and Managed Domain Name System Services. VeriSign was formed in 1995 and is based in Reston, Virginia.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 13 of 17
Sector: Consumer Services M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 13 of 17
State: Washington M&A 2 of 2
Country: United States M&A 11 of 13
Year: 2006 M&A 1 of 4
Size (of disclosed) 14 of 17
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2005-10-26 RSi

San Jose, California, United States

Retail Solutions, Inc. is a provider of Big Data, predictive analytics for the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry. Retail Solutions collects and transforms billions of data points on what shoppers are buying every day and makes it insightful and actionable for better tactical and strategic decision-making at the corporate level and in the field. Retail Solutions was founded in 2003 and is based in San Jose, California.

Buy $24M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2006-02-13 3united Mobile Solutions AG

Vienna, Austria

3united Mobile Solutions AG (3united), a wireless applications service provider based in Vienna, Austria. 3united is a provider in premium SMS, m-commerce and mobile content solutions and serves as the international hub for all Central and Eastern Europe in the field of Premium SMS.

Buy $66M

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

DAG Private Equity

San Francisco, California, United States

Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1991
PE ASSETS 1.0B USD
Size Large
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

DAG Private Equity (“DAG PE”) is an private equity arm of Duff Ackerman & Goodrich LLC (DAG). DAG Private Equity invests its equity capital with strong management teams focused on building companies in well-defined, growing market niches in select industry segments – specialty manufacturing, communications, media, and information technology. DAG Private Equity was formed in 1991 and is based in San Francisco, California.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 8 of 12
Sector: Consumer Services M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 5 of 7
State: Washington M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 8 of 11
Year: 2006 M&A 1 of 2
Size (of disclosed) 7 of 8
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2005-05-17 Topspin Communications

Mountain View, California, United States

Topspin builds a server switch that cuts costs and improves server and application performance.

Sell $250M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2006-11-01 Motorsport Aftermarket Group

Coppell, Texas, United States

Motorsport Aftermarket Group is a distributor and manufacturer of branded aftermarket products for the powersports industry in North America. MAG provides dealers, e-commerce sites and their enthusiast end-users with parts, accessories and apparel for motorcycles, ATVs and UTVs. The Company’s brands include Vance & Hines, Kuryakyn, Performance Machine, QuadBoss, DragonFire and ProTaper. Motorsport Aftermarket Group was formed in 2000 and is based in Coppell, Texas.

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