M&A Deal Summary

Adobe Acquires Ares Software

On May 20, 1996, Adobe acquired software company Ares Software

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Adobe’s 5th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Adobe’s 4th transaction in the United States.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 1996-05-20
Target Ares Software
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Adobe
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Ares Software

United States
Ares Software, is a developer of Chameleon(TM) font compression technology and related award winning retail products.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Adobe

San Jose, California, United States

Category Company
Founded 1982
Sector Software
Employees30,709
Revenue 21.5B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION
Adobe's corporate headquarters in San Jose, California.
Adobe's corporate headquarters in San Jose, California.

Adobe is a diversified software company that offers a line of products and services used by creative professionals, marketers, knowledge workers, application developers, enterprises, and consumers for creating, managing, delivering, measuring, optimizing, and engaging with content and experiences across multiple operating systems, devices, and media. Adobe was incorporated in 1982 and is based in San Jose, California.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 5 of 53
Sector: Software M&A 5 of 31
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 5 of 50
Country: United States M&A 4 of 41
Year: 1996 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
1995-10-30 Frame Technology

Mountain View, California, United States

Frame Technology Corp., provides document creation, management, and distribution software for individuals and workgroups.

Buy $500M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
1997-03-14 Sandcastle

San Jose, California, United States

Sandcastle, Inc. is a software technology company.

Buy -