{"id":46995,"date":"2026-07-06T22:44:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T22:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/46995\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T22:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T22:44:06","slug":"thales-acquires-exail-technologies-stake-as-it-expands-undersea-warfare-footprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/46995\/","title":{"rendered":"Thales acquires Exail Technologies stake as it expands undersea warfare footprint"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 Thales<\/a> will acquire a controlling stake in French maritime drone maker Exail Technologies, company officials announced today, as the French aerospace and defense firm expands its foothold in the undersea warfare arena.<\/p>\n

Likewise, Italian shipbuilding company Fincantieri<\/a> announced today an agreement to acquire four underwater technology firms \u2014 Next Geosolutions, WSense, Graal Tech and Defcomm \u2014 for approximately \u20ac600 million ($686.5 million USD).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thales said it is acquiring 35.5 percent of Exail shares from the Gorg\u00e9 family. The purchase is slated to close by the end of summer 2027, according to Thales.\u00a0Rapha\u00ebl Gorg\u00e9 is Exail\u2019s chairman and chief executive officer, and the family has been the controlling shareholder of the company. <\/p>\n

\u201cWith this acquisition, Thales and Exail plan to join forces,\u201d Patrice Caine<\/a>, chairman and chief executive officer of Thales, said in a statement today. \u201cTogether, thanks to our talents and capabilities, we will strengthen our high-technology industrial base and innovation for our world-class defence and civil customers, while reinforcing Europe\u2019s technological sovereignty.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once this acquisition closes, Thales said that it will submit a mandatory tender offer to purchase all of the company for approximately \u20ac134.00 per share ($153.3 USD), translating to a company value of roughly \u20ac3.9 billion ($4.5 billion USD). That acquisition is slated for closing by the beginning of 2028 \u201cat the latest,\u201d according to Thales.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For Fincantieri\u2019s part, the Italian shipbuilder said the companies they are acquiring will funnel into Fincantieri\u2019s underwater technological hub as the firm aims to solidify itself in the underwater domain.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe acquisitions announced today mark a historic transformation for Fincantieri, that creates an international champion in the Underwater domain, enabled by full integration across the value chain of technologies, capabilities and operational expertise,\u201d Pierroberto Folgiero<\/a>, CEO and managing director of Fincantieri, said in a statement today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThese acquisitions also allow us to accelerate the execution of our Business Plan, significantly strengthening profitability while expanding our presence in a fast-growing market where the dual-use component is expected to become increasingly important,\u201d Folgiero said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Thales will acquire a controlling stake in French maritime drone maker Exail Technologies, company officials announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13059],"tags":[16242,73,30854,31308,2668,5719],"class_list":["post-46995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-thales","tag-business-industry","tag-europe","tag-exail","tag-fincantieri","tag-navy","tag-thales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}