Acorn Energy Reports Strategic Partnership

Acorn Energy, Inc. (OTCQB:ACFN) announced the sale of a 50% strategic interest in its DSIT Solutions, Ltd. business to Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, a major Israeli defense company.
According to the company’s press release:

Including the earn-out, the implied company value of DSIT reflected in the transaction is $15.1 million. Initial gross proceeds from the transaction will be $6.6 million and Acorn expects to receive gross proceeds of approximately $4.9 million before escrow, fees and taxes. Acorn is also eligible to receive its pro-rata share of a $1.0 million earn-out over a three-year period. The proceeds of the sale will be used by Acorn to repay approximately $2.4 million of short-term debt and other liabilities and for general working capital purposes.

Benny Sela, CEO of DSIT, said:

We have long-admired Rafael and its culture of innovation and excellence. We are excited to become its partner and hope to leverage its technology capabilities as well as its global sales reach to support and extend DSIT’s growth and realization of our existing sonar technology as well as our new technology of Fiber Optic based sensing.”

John Moore, CEO of Acorn Energy, also commented:

As DSIT landed larger projects each year, we recognized that DSIT needed a stronger partner to support and expand the size and scope of projects they could take on. Rafael is a terrific company known around the world for its ‘Iron Dome’ air defense system among other world leading products.

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