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M&A Deal Summary

Dell Acquires Quest

On July 2, 2012, Dell acquired software company Quest for 2.4B USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Dell’s 6th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Dell’s 3rd largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Dell’s 22nd transaction in the United States.
  • This is Dell’s 9th transaction in California.
Investment Fate
  • Quest was divested to a consortium of buyers in 2016.
  • Quest was sold to a consortium of financial buyers in 2021 for 5.4B USD.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2012-07-02
Target Quest
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Dell
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 2.4B USD

Target

Quest

Aliso Viejo, California, United States
Quest is a provider of a broad suite of integrated infrastructure software for managing systems, data, and applications. Quest helps organizations be IT resilient by protecting and powering users, endpoints and data, as well as by hardening cybersecurity systems. Quest is based in Aliso Viejo, California.

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Buyer

Dell

Round Rock, Texas, United States
Category Company
Founded 1984
Sector Technology Hardware
Employees108,000
Revenue 95.6B USD (2025)
DESCRIPTION
Building 7 on Dell's campus in Round Rock, Texas.
Building 7 on Dell's campus in Round Rock, Texas.

Dell is a global provider of technology equipment and information technology software and solutions. Dell Technologies looks to bring together the entire infrastructure from hardware to software to services. Dell was incorporated in 1984 and is based in Round Rock, Texas.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 24 of 31
Sector: Software M&A 6 of 9
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 22 of 29
State: California M&A 9 of 11
Country: United States M&A 22 of 28
Year: 2012 M&A 5 of 7
Size (of disclosed) 3 of 10
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-04-05 MAKE Technologies

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

MAKE Technologies, Inc. is a provider of legacy modernization software and services. Make Technologies has guided organizations that maintain portfolios of legacy applications to transform and implement business-agile systems.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-11-16 Gale Technologies

Santa Clara, California, United States

Gale Technologies is a provider of infrastructure automation software that allows organizations to streamline the deployment of on-premise and hybrid clouds for self-service access to infrastructure.

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