2023年7月5日

https://www.everythingrf.com/news/details/16737-keysight-to-advance-its-software-centric-solutions-with-the-acquisition-of-esi-group 2023年7月5日|编辑团队Keysight技术已宣布有意收购整个应急服务国际公司的股本集团公司(“ESI集团”)的每股价格155欧元现金。收购价值ESI集团的全部股本在9.13亿欧元在完全稀释基础上。应急服务国际公司成立于1973年,集团是一家领先的创新者的虚拟原型设计解决方案在汽车和航空市场。应急服务国际公司组织的复杂的软件解决方案模拟产品测试和实际使用期间的行为。该公司的投资组合是高度分化,预测仿真技术最具挑战性的系统设计。应急服务国际公司组织的实时数字双解决方案将模型驱动的仿真与数据驱动测试创建虚拟模拟,及其身临其境的工业解决方案启用工作流自动化和虚拟制造。在今天的数字转换的时代,产品开发跨许多行业转移的设计周期,成为虚拟化。计算机辅助工程支持这种转变了虚拟样机的产品,生产流程和工作流。通过引入ESI集团电子设计和测试组合,Keysight将进一步扩大到计算机辅助工程软件原型功能,使客户能够加速投放市场的时间,降低运营成本,同时减少环境足迹。Keysight Satish Dhanasekaran,总裁兼首席执行官,说:“Keysight ESI集团收购加速我们的策略为以软件为中心的解决方案提供的虚拟样机和高级模拟功能。 Keysight and ESI Group share rich cultures of innovation and strong commitments to solving customers' most complex challenges, which will enable value creation for all stakeholders. The Keysight team looks forward to working with the world-class talent at ESI Group to unlock opportunities and drive our combined success." Cristel de Rouvray, Chief Executive Officer of ESI Group, said, "I am delighted for ESI to announce this significant milestone today with Keysight. Over the past four years, our entire team has been dedicated to transforming ESI Group into a leading actor in the industrial software and simulation sectors. This combination with Keysight is a testament to the success of the work carried out over the years and will enable ESI to enter a new phase of its development. The core values, vision, and ambition that have driven Keysight over its long and reputable history and under its current leadership are perfectly aligned with those of ESI Group: pioneers enabling innovation for industry. I trust this operation is the promise of an exciting and sustainable future." Transaction Structure On June 28, 2023, Keysight made a binding offer to certain shareholders of ESI Group to acquire a controlling block of the ESI Group's share capital and voting rights. Once completed, Keysight will file a proposed mandatory tender offer for the remaining outstanding shares of ESI Group. If legal conditions are met at the end of the offer, a squeeze-out procedure will occur, and the ESI Group will be delisted from Euronext Paris. Completion of the acquisition of the controlling block of ESI shares is expected to take place during the fourth quarter of calendar year 2023, with the tender offer to occur shortly thereafter. J.P. Morgan Securities LLC is acting as the exclusive financial advisor to Keysight with Paul Hastings LLP acting as the legal advisor.