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Qatalyst Partners

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...
Nov 21, 2024

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,...
Jun 4, 2024


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,...
Apr 2, 2024


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 13, 2024


HPE’s $14bn Acquisition of Juniper Networks
By Kayley Portelli, William Hodgson, Jingheng Xu, Nancy Huang (University of Melbourne) ; Nathaniel Baker, Alyssa Serebrenik, Samuel...
Feb 6, 2024


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,...
Nov 7, 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...
Oct 11, 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...
Apr 12, 2023
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