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Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners’ $8.4bn Acquisition of Smartsheet

By Edward Mazin (UCLA), Adam Bernabeu, Mahaut Bonnet de Roovere and Malo Inizan (HEC Paris) Photo: Ahmer Kalam (Unsplash) Overview of...

Jun 4

IBM’s $6.4bn Acquisition of HashiCorp

By Enrique Perez-Hernandez, Tarvo Simons, Taha Yassine, Michael Joachim ten Eicken, and Juan Pelaez (IE University), Adam Bernabeu,...

Apr 2

VIAVI Solutions’ £1.0 bn Acquisition of Spirent Communications

By Rhys Meredith, Salah Baaziz, Aaryan Upadhyay and Dominic Zhu (University of Bristol) and Leo Fridjhon, Xinyue Zhang, Li Hanchen,...

Feb 13

Synopsys’ $35bn Acquisition of Ansys

By Adam Bernabeu, Malo Inizan and Mahaut Bonnet de Roovere (HEC Paris) ; Leo Luke Fridjhon, Xinyue Zhang, Hanchen Li and Abraham...

Feb 6

HPE’s $14bn Acquisition of Juniper Networks

By Kayley Portelli, William Hodgson, Jingheng Xu, Nancy Huang (University of Melbourne) ; Nathaniel Baker, Alyssa Serebrenik, Samuel...

Nov 7, 2023

Thoma Bravo’s $8 bn Acquisition of Coupa Software (updated)

By Atin Narain, Nathaniel Mathew, Omar Ali, Shreyas Mehta, Devina Aggarwal (Yale University), Aditi Singh, Ben Jackson, Rhys Meredith,...

Oct 11, 2023

Cisco’s $28bn Acquisition of Splunk

By Edward Mazin, Luca Cuffe, Agastya Jain, Lars Birkeland (UCLA), Mikołaj Borowiak, and Argyro Charizona (Università Bocconi) Photo: adi...

Apr 12, 2023

Blackstone’s $4.6bn Acquisition of Cvent

By Mikolaj Borowiak, Argiro Charizona, Sonia Andrzejuk, Vlad Marcu (Bocconi), Gabriela Lenerte, Carl-Gabriel Jakobsson (Stockholm School...