M&A Deal Summary

RSA Security Acquires Securant Technologies

On December 31, 2003, RSA Security acquired software company Securant Technologies from JMI Equity

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is RSA Security’s 1st transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is RSA Security’s 1st transaction in the United States.
  • This is RSA Security’s 1st transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2003-12-31
Target Securant Technologies
Sector Software
Buyer(s) RSA Security
Sellers(s) JMI Equity
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Advisor(s) Architect Partners (Financial)

Target

Securant Technologies

San Francisco, California, United States
Securant Technologies is a developer of software solutions that provide a solid, integrated security infrastructure for the electronic commerce. Securant's software enables companies to easily manage a cohesive security policy required when deploying secure electronic commerce applications on the Web or across an Enterprise.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

RSA Security

Burlington, Massachusetts, United States

Category Company
Founded 1982
Sector Information Technology
Employees1,282
DESCRIPTION

RSA Security is a provider of intelligence-driven security solutions. RSA enables customers to cost-effectively secure critical information assets and online identities wherever they live and at every step of the way, and manage security information and events to ease the burden of compliance. RSA Security was founded in 1982 and is based in Burlington, Massachusetts.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 6
Sector: Software M&A 1 of 3
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 1 of 5
State: California M&A 1 of 3
Country: United States M&A 1 of 4
Year: 2003 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
1995-01-01 VeriSign

Reston, Virginia, United States

VeriSign provides domain name registry services to power the navigation of the Internet by operating a global infrastructure for a portfolio of top-level domains that includes .com, .net, .tv, .edu, .gov, .jobs, .name and .cc as well as two of the world’s 13 Internet root servers. The company's product suite also includes Network Intelligence and Availability Services, consisting of Distributed Denial of Service Protection Services, Verisign iDefense Security Intelligence Services and Managed Domain Name System Services. VeriSign was formed in 1995 and is based in Reston, Virginia.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2005-12-05 Cyota

Israel

Cyota is a developer of security solutions against online identity theft.

Buy $145M

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

JMI Equity

La Jolla, California, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1992
PE ASSETS 7.5B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

JMI Equity is a private equity firm focused on investments in software, internet, business service, and healthcare IT. Targeted businesses typically help automate and optimize business and information technology processes. The Firm will consider investments at all stages of development, including early-stage companies, self-funded businesses requiring growth capital, and later stage businesses in need of buyout or recapitalization funding. JMI looks to commit at least $25 million per transaction. JMI Equity was formed in 1992 and maintains offices in San Diego and Baltimore.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 16 of 107
Sector: Software M&A 8 of 55
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 12 of 68
State: California M&A 4 of 18
Country: United States M&A 16 of 95
Year: 2003 M&A 3 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2003-09-04 Applimation

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Applimation, Inc. is a independent provider of application data management solutions for Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel and custom environments.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2004-01-01 Optika Solutions

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

Optika Solutions is a provider of imaging, workflow and collaboration software. Optika's Acorde family of Internet software solutions allows companies to efficiently manage complex business processes and transactions.

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