M&A Deal Summary

Adobe Acquires Accelio

On February 1, 2002, Adobe acquired software company Accelio for 72M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Adobe’s 10th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Adobe’s 15th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Adobe’s 1st transaction in Canada.
  • This is Adobe’s 1st transaction in Ontario.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2002-02-01
Target Accelio
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Adobe
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 72M USD

Target

Accelio

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Accelio Corp., is a provider of Web-enabled solutions that help customers manage business processes driven by electronic forms.

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Buyer

Adobe

San Jose, California, United States
Category Company
Founded 1982
Sector Software
Employees29,945
Revenue 19.4B USD (2023)
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 11 of 52
Sector (Software) 10 of 31
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 11 of 49
State (Ontario) 1 of 1
Country (Canada) 1 of 3
Year (2002) 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 15 of 15
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2001-12-05 Fotiva

Santa Rosa, California, United States

Fotiva develops digital photography software solutions to help consumers manage, store, enrich, and share digital photographs.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2004-05-03 Q-Link Technologies

Tampa, Florida, United States

Q-Link Technologies, Inc., a business process management software. Q-Link provides a pure J2EE component based workflow architecture that enables developers to visually assemble complete applications faster than traditional application development. From workflow to forms, UI design, rules, web services, integration and Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), Q-Link offers a fully unified solution to easily build process-driven applications.

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