TransDigm Completes Acquisition of Extant Aerospace

CLEVELAND, April 24, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- TransDigm Group Incorporated (NYSE: TDG) announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Extant Components Group Holdings, Inc. ("Extant"), a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus LLC, for approximately $525 million. TransDigm financed the acquisition with cash on hand.  The acquisition of Extant was previously announced on March 19, 2018.

Located in Melbourne, Florida, Extant provides a broad range of proprietary aftermarket products and repair and overhaul services to the aerospace and defense end markets. The company currently owns or exclusively licenses in excess of 2,500 assemblies and sub-assemblies on over 70 active platforms. Extant employs more than 170 people and expects to generate revenue of approximately $85 million for the fiscal year ending September 2018. Extant derives 80% of its revenue from the aftermarket, with nearly all of the revenue from proprietary and sole source products. The revenue is generated from a mix of military and commercial applications, with the majority of the revenue coming from the military end market.

About TransDigm

TransDigm Group Incorporated, through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, is a leading global designer, producer and supplier of highly engineered aircraft components for use on nearly all commercial and military aircraft in service today. Major product offerings, substantially all of which are ultimately provided to end-users in the aerospace industry, include mechanical/electro-mechanical actuators and controls, ignition systems and engine technology, specialized pumps and valves, power conditioning devices, specialized AC/DC electric motors and generators, NiCad batteries and chargers, engineered latching and locking devices, rods and locking devices, engineered connectors and elastomers, cockpit security components and systems, specialized cockpit displays, aircraft audio systems, specialized lavatory components, seatbelts and safety restraints, engineered interior surfaces and related components, lighting and control technology, military personnel parachutes, high performance hoists, winches and lifting devices, and cargo loading, handling and delivery systems.

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