M&A Deal Summary

Packeteer Acquires Mentat

On December 1, 2004, Packeteer acquired software company Mentat for 20M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Packeteer’s 2nd transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Packeteer’s largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Packeteer’s 1st transaction in the United States.
  • This is Packeteer’s 1st transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2004-12-01
Target Mentat
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Packeteer
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 20M USD

Target

Mentat

Los Angeles, California, United States
Mentat, Inc. provides networking solutions and operating systems to the computer and satellite industries in the United States.

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Buyer

Packeteer

Cupertino, California, United States
Category Company
Founded 1996
Sector Technology Hardware
Employees440
DESCRIPTION

Packeteer is a developer of appliances that can identify different types of packets in the traffic going over a WAN and let administrators shape traffic to make critical applications perform better.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 2
Sector (Software) 2 of 2
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 2 of 2
State (California) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 1 of 1
Year (2004) 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2000-07-13 Workfire Technologies International

Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

Workfire, is a developer of software for accelerating the performance of business-critical web applications and content over the Internet, intranets and extranets.

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