M&A Deal Summary

OPNET Technologies Acquires Clarus Systems

On May 30, 2012, OPNET Technologies acquired software company Clarus Systems from Trident Capital

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is OPNET Technologies’ 2nd transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is OPNET Technologies’ 3rd transaction in the United States.
  • This is OPNET Technologies’ 2nd transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2012-05-30
Target Clarus Systems
Sector Software
Buyer(s) OPNET Technologies
Sellers(s) Trident Capital
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Advisor(s) Signal Hill Capital (Financial)

Target

Clarus Systems

Redwood City, California, United States
Clarus Systems provides end-to-end service management for Enterprise Voice over IP (VoIP), Unified Communications, and TelePresence video. Clarus’s award-winning solution suite, ClarusIPC® Plus+, maximizes service performance and availability through automated testing, performance monitoring, configuration management, and business intelligence reporting. Clarus’s customers include Global 100 enterprises in financial services, healthcare, energy, communications, as well as system integrators, and managed service providers.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

OPNET Technologies

Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Category Company
Founded 1986
Sector Software
Employees669
DESCRIPTION

OPNET Technologies, Inc. provides software tools for planning, modeling, and simulating communication networks and distribution systems.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 3
Sector: Software M&A 2 of 2
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 3 of 3
State: California M&A 2 of 2
Country: United States M&A 3 of 3
Year: 2012 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2007-10-22 Network Physics

Mountain View, California, United States

Network Physics, Inc. is a privately held software company headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Buy $10M

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Trident Capital

San Mateo, California, United States

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1993
PE ASSETS 1.9B USD
Size Large
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

Trident Capital was a venture capital firm focused on investments at all company stages, from early and expansion stage investments to buyouts and recapitalizations. Trident focused on investments in tech-enabled sectors, including enterprise software/services, outsourcing and payments, healthcare software/services, internet/consumer, and energy/clean tech. In 2015, Trident ceased investing and the Firm's employees split to form Sunstone Partners, a growth equity firm, and Trident Capital Cybersecurity, a venture firm focused on the cyber security sector.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 55 of 86
Sector: Software M&A 12 of 18
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 43 of 63
State: California M&A 18 of 31
Country: United States M&A 51 of 81
Year: 2012 M&A 2 of 7
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-01-31 AlienVaut

San Mateo, California, United States

AlienVaut LLC is a global provider of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions, providing the technology for more than half of all SIEM deployments worldwide. Company founded AlienVault to help organizations of all shapes and sizes achieve world-class security without the headaches and huge expense of other solutions.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-06-07 Bytemobile

Mountain View, California, United States

Bytemobile is a provider of carrier class mobile data optimization solutions. Bytemobile® has approximately 300 employees, including product, sales and services teams around the world. In addition to optimizing mobile data and video traffic, Bytemobile solutions enable mobile operators to differentiate data service plans based on a wide variety of factors, including quality of experience and subscriber usage. With a presence in the networks of more than 130 operators in 60 countries worldwide, Bytemobile customers serve more than 2 billion subscribers and process more than 20 petabytes of mobile data traffic through their networks daily.

Sell $435M