M&A Acquirer Playbook

TransDigm Group Inc acquisition history.

Every deal, price, and strategic rationale.

Company TransDigm Group Inc
SEC CIK 0001260221
Tracked filings EDGAR · 8-K
Total deals tracked
18
Disclosed 8-K acquisitions, 2016 — present.
Aggregate disclosed value
approximately $19+ billion across 18 disclosed transactions
approximately $19+ billion across 18 disclosed transactions (2015–2026).
Active acquisition years
2015 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018 · 2020 · 2022 · 2023 · 2024 · 2025 · 2026
2018 most active (5 deals incl. Esterline).
Primary sectors
Proprietary, sole-source aerospace & defense components
Power & Control and Airframe segments. Esterline, CPI Electron Device Business, Data Device Corporation; Calspan, Cobham Aero Connectivity, DART, Breeze-Eastern.
Verified 18 deals on this page · sourced from SEC filings
All cross-references covered.

18 deals, approximately $19+ billion across 18 disclosed transactions deployed.

Plotted by close date where disclosed, otherwise announcement. Click any marker to jump to the deal entry.

The rationale that repeats.

Three patterns show up across TransDigm's deal book — what the team buys, how it pays, and how it integrates. The patterns are the throughline; the individual deals below are the evidence.

01
Acquisition criteria

Buy proprietary, sole-source aerospace parts with heavy aftermarket content.

Almost every target description emphasizes 'highly engineered, proprietary' products with large aftermarket revenue shares — CPI (~70% aftermarket), DART (~80%), Cobham Aero Connectivity (>70%). Management repeatedly frames each deal as fitting its 'long-standing' / 'consistent product and acquisition strategy.'

Jet Parts Engineering & Victor Sierra AviationStellant SystemsSimmonds Precision ProductsServotronicsRaptor Scientific (Raptor Labs Holdco, LLC)
02
Capital deployment

Underwrite to private-equity-style returns and fund with cash.

Across deals the company says it expects each acquisition to 'create equity value in-line with our long-term private equity-like return objectives,' and most recent deals (Simmonds, Raptor, DART, Cobham) are financed through cash on hand. TransDigm frequently buys from private-equity sellers (Warburg Pincus, Greenbriar, L Squared, TJC, Arlington Capital, Vance Street).

Jet Parts Engineering & Victor Sierra AviationStellant SystemsSimmonds Precision ProductsServotronicsRaptor Scientific (Raptor Labs Holdco, LLC)
03
Integration approach

Scale from tuck-ins to multi-billion-dollar platforms, including public-company ...

Scale from tuck-ins to multi-billion-dollar platforms, including public-company tender offers and corporate carve-outs. Deal sizes range from a ~$27M NavCom asset purchase and $50M Kirkhill carve-out to the ~$4.0B Esterline merger and ~$2.2B Jet Parts/Victor Sierra. Structures include tender-offer mergers (Breeze-Eastern, Servotronics) and carve-outs from larger A&D parents (Kirkhill and Simmonds from Goodrich/RTX, CPI's Electron Device Business).

Jet Parts Engineering & Victor Sierra AviationStellant SystemsSimmonds Precision ProductsServotronicsRaptor Scientific (Raptor Labs Holdco, LLC)

The full deal book.

18 acquisitions. Click any row to see the deal value, financing structure, target revenue, executive commentary, and the original SEC filing — the evidence behind the patterns above.

End of deal book
18 acquisitions · approximately $19+ billion across 18 disclosed transactions deployed ·2016 — present
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