M&A

20 stories about M&A
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SolarEdge Buys Industrial Machinery Firm SMRE as Part of Electric Vehicle Push

07.01.19|Amarelle Wenkert
SolarEdge will initially acquire 51% of Italian SMRE’s outstanding shares for approximately $77 million
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Keystone Dental to Merge with Israeli Dental Implant Company Paltop

06.01.19|Meir Orbach
In June 2018, Keystone was acquired by Israel-based medtech investment firm Accelmed Growth Partners
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Israeli Drone Maker Aeronautics Confirms IAI Interest

02.01.19|Lilach Baumer
Aeronautics’ stock has been on a consistent slide since the company listed in June 2017, at least in part due to an investigation launched against the company and many of its senior executives
המל"ט דומינייטור של אירונאוטיקס

IAI in Talks to Acquire Probed Drone Maker Aeronautics

01.01.19|Golan Hazani
On Monday, Aeronautics reported it is in talks with unnamed third parties regarding a partial or complete acquisition of the company
תל אביב קו רקיע חוף

Exits for Privately-Held Israeli Tech Companies Down 33% in 2018

30.12.18|Hagar Ravet
The accumulated value of private merger and acquisition deals and IPOs in Israel in 2018 has gone down 33% compared with the previous year, according to a report published by accounting firm PwC Israel
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Surveillance Company Verint Buys Emergency Response App Developer NowForce

27.12.18|Meir Orbach
NowForce develops mobile applications for emergency response. Earlier this year, Verint lost a deal to acquire Israeli spyware developer NSO Group
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China Success Jeopardizes Orbotech’s Sale

27.12.18|Dror Reich and Lilach Baumer
Orbotech’s footprint in China is now proving to be a hurdle as the company attempts to close its most important deal ever—its own sale to U.S.-based semiconductor company KLA-Tencor Corporation
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Orbotech Buys Out Partner in Joint Fab Subsidiary

27.12.18|Lilach Baumer
Israel-based Orbotech awaits Chinese regulatory approval for its acquisition by U.S.-based KLA-Tencor
מימין מנכ”ל שותף בסלברייט יוסי כרמיל והסמנכ”ל הבכיר ליאור בן פרץ

Sun Corporation Seeks to Offload Stake in Mobile Forensics Firm Cellebrite

26.12.18|Golan Hazani
Japan's Sun Corporation is in talks to sell at least part of its stake in mobile forensics subsidiary Cellebrite, two people familiar with the matter said
אורי הדומי מנכ"ל מזור רובוטיקה

The Five Biggest Israeli Tech M&A Deals in 2018

25.12.18|Lilach Baumer
From KLA-Tencor’s pending acquisition of Orbotech to Datorama’s acquisition by Salesforce, 2018 was an eventful M&A year in the Israeli innovation hub
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KLA-Tencor's $3.4 Billion Orbotech Acquisition Stuck in China

25.12.18|Lilach Baumer
After getting the nod from regulators in the Korea, Israel, the U.S., Taiwan, and Japan, the companies announced Monday the deal is still pending approval in China
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Communication Chips Company ColorChip to Lay Off 50% of Employees

24.12.18|Meir Orbach
In August, Calcalist reported that the Israel-based company was negotiating an acquisition by Chinese chip designer and manufacturer Sanan Optoelectronics
אורי הדומי מנכ"ל מזור רובוטיקה

Acquisition by Medtronic Complete, Mazor Delists

20.12.18|Lilach Baumer
Medtronic paid $1.3 billion in cash for the Israeli surgical robotics company. Including Medtronic’s existing stake, the deal is valued at $1.7 billion
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Particle Analyzer Company PML Sold Following Liquidation

19.12.18|Meir Orbach
The company developed electro-optical systems for monitoring and measuring fluid particle sizes and concentration
מחשוב ענן תשתיות רשתות גיבוי אחסון

Xenon Ventures Buys Israeli Cloud Company Xplenty

19.12.18|Meir Orbach
Most of the employees of Tel Aviv-based Xplenty will be laid off. Its founders will remain in an advisory capacity
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Verint to Pay $65 Million for Cloud Company ForeSee

18.12.18|Lilach Baumer
Subject to the closing of the transaction, the company updated its initial non-GAAP outlook for the next year by $20 million, to $1.345 billion
שירותי ענן

India's Infosys Divests Minority Stake in Cloud Computing Startup CloudEndure for $15.3 Million

17.12.18|Lilach Baumer
Infosys paid $4 million in cash in 2015 for a less than 20% stake in privately-owned CloudEndure, as part of the latter's series B
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888 Holdings Buys Out Partners in Subsidiary All American Poker Network

12.12.18|Lilach Baumer
The online gambling company will pay $28 million in cash for the remaining 53% stake
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Netanyahu Greenlights Floating of Israel’s Largest Aerospace and Defense Company

10.12.18|Golan Hazani
Israel is looking to list state-owned defense contractor IAI in mid-2019. The plan is to sell 25% of the company’s shares according to a $4 billion post-IPO valuation
קודמאנקי מימין רובין באי ישי פינצ'ובר עדו שור יונתן שור גייל הואנג וויני שייאה

Israeli Edtech Companies Inspired by Recent China-Israel Deal

09.12.18|Ofir Dor
During the Global Education Summit held in Beijing last week, TAL Education Group—one of China’s largest education service companies—announced it acquired Israeli game-based learning startup Codemonkey