M&A Deal Summary

Emerson Acquires LANDesk Software

On December 1, 2009, Emerson acquired software company LANDesk Software from Avocent

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Emerson’s 3rd transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Emerson’s 20th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Emerson’s 1st transaction in Utah.
Investment Fate
  • LANDesk Software was divested to a consortium of buyers in 2010.
  • LANDesk Software merged with another company in 2017.
  • LANDesk Software merged with another company in 2017.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2009-12-01
Target LANDesk Software
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Emerson
Sellers(s) Avocent
Deal Type Divestiture

Target

LANDesk Software

South Jordan, Utah, United States
LANDesk Software, Inc. is a provider of desktop and security management software solutions. LANDesk software solutions maximize user productivity while reducing the associated IT complexities, risks, and costs to the business. Its products focus on systems management, security management, and asset lifecycle management for IT devices, servers, and networks.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Emerson

St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Category Company
Founded 1890
Sector Diversified
Employees73,000
Revenue 17.5B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION
Emerson Electric's corporate headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri.
Emerson Electric's corporate headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri.

Emerson is a diversified manufacturing and technology company. Emerson offers a wide range of products and services in the industrial, commercial, and consumer markets through its Process Management, Industrial Automation, Network Power, Climate Technologies, and Commercial & Residential Solutions businesses. Emerson was founded in 1890 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 28 of 68
Sector: Software M&A 3 of 12
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 5 of 11
State: Utah M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 20 of 44
Year: 2009 M&A 5 of 5
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-11-12 SSB Group

Salzbergen, Germany

SB control systems and actuators are key technologies of wind turbines and ensure through optimal alignment of the rotor blades a maximization of the performance.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2010-06-30 Innovative Control Systems

Clifton Park, New York, United States

Innovative Control Systems, Inc. is a provider in turbine control upgrades for power generation applications.

Buy -

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Avocent

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Category Company
Founded 2000
Sector Information Technology
Employees1,971
Revenue 657M USD (2008)
DESCRIPTION

Avocent Corp. is a provider of a software, hardware, and embedded technologies to enterprise-level information technology (IT) organizations to control, plan, evolve, and secure their IT infrastructure.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Software M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 1 of 1
State: Utah M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2009 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2006-04-27 LANDesk Software

South Jordan, Utah, United States

LANDesk Software, Inc. is a provider of desktop and security management software solutions. LANDesk software solutions maximize user productivity while reducing the associated IT complexities, risks, and costs to the business. Its products focus on systems management, security management, and asset lifecycle management for IT devices, servers, and networks.

Buy $416M