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M&A Deal Summary

HP Acquires Autonomy

On October 3, 2011, HP acquired software company Autonomy for 11.7B USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is HP’s 32nd transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is HP’s 3rd largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is HP’s 3rd transaction in the United Kingdom.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2011-10-03
Target Autonomy
Sector Software
Buyer(s) HP
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 11.7B USD
Advisor(s) Qatalyst Partners
UBS Investment Bank
Citi
Goldman Sachs
J.P. Morgan Securities (Financial)
Morgan Lewis (Legal)

Target

Autonomy

Cambridge, United Kingdom
Autonomy Corporation plc develops and distributes infrastructure software for enterprises worldwide. Its products include intelligent data operating layer (IDOL) server that collects indexed data from connectors and stores it in its structure.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

HP

Palo Alto, California, United States
Category Company
Founded 1939
Sector Technology Hardware
Employees58,000
Revenue 53.6B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION
HP's corporate headquarters in Palo Alto, California.
HP's corporate headquarters in Palo Alto, California.

HP is a technology company that focuses on providing hardware, printers, and personal computing products. HP was founded in 1939 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 83 of 98
Sector: Software M&A 32 of 37
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 76 of 89
Country: United Kingdom M&A 3 of 5
Year: 2011 M&A 2 of 3
Size (of disclosed) 3 of 33
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-06-01 HP - Visual Collaboration

United States

HP's Visual Collaboration business provides unified communications and telepresence products and services.

Sell $89M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-12-06 HIFLEX

Aachen, Germany

Hiflex Software, is a privately held software solutions provider specializing in Web-to-print and management information systems solutions for printing services.

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