M&A Deal Summary

Riverbed Acquires OPNET Technologies

On December 18, 2012, Riverbed acquired software company OPNET Technologies for 993M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Riverbed’s 2nd transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Riverbed’s largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Riverbed’s 4th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Riverbed’s 2nd transaction in Maryland.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2012-12-18
Target OPNET Technologies
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Riverbed
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 993M USD
Advisor(s) Lazard Ltd. (Financial)
Cooley LLP (Legal)

Target

OPNET Technologies

Bethesda, Maryland, United States
website
OPNET Technologies, Inc. provides software tools for planning, modeling, and simulating communication networks and distribution systems.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Riverbed

San Francisco, California, United States

website

Category Company
Founded 2002
Sector Software
Employees2,555
Revenue 1.0B USD (2013)
DESCRIPTION

Riverbed is a provider of software for mobile computing applications services. Riverbed delivers application performance for the globally connected enterprise. It helps clients in implementing strategic initiatives such as virtualization, consolidation, cloud computing, and disaster recovery. Riverbed was founded in 2002 and is based in San Francisco, California.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 6 of 10
Sector (Software) 2 of 3
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 6 of 9
State (Maryland) 2 of 2
Country (United States) 4 of 7
Year (2012) 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-07-19 Zeus Technology

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Zeus Technology, a privately-owned company that delivers high-performance software-based load balancing and traffic management solutions for virtual and cloud environments.

Buy $140M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-03-28 Infineta Systems - intellectual property

United States

Infineta Systems - intellectual property includes source code and domain names.

Buy -
Mergr

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Company

Legal