Software & Systems

Our bankers are some of the preeminent advisors in the Software & Systems industry, maintaining strong relationships that provide unparalleled access to key decision makers to the sector’s leading companies and financial sponsors.  Our core focus areas include application software, infrastructure software, network security, data storage, on-demand solutions and software enabled appliances.  Our team’s  commitment to understanding the changing technology landscape affords us unique insight into key industry trends and disruptive technologies which ultimately enable us to drive value for our clients.  Our bankers have been involved in the following representative transactions:

Software & Systems Transactions ($ in MM)
Client Description Value
360 Commerce Sale to Oracle NA
AMDOCS

Convertible note repurchase

NA
Arsenal Digital Sale to IBM NA
Aspen Technology Acquisition of Houston Consulting Group NA
Blackboard Acquisition of NTI Group $182
CA Technologies

Divestiture of its Internet Security Business Unit to Updata Partners

NA
Citadel Security Software Sale to McAfee $60
Determina Sale to VMWare NA
E3 Corp. Sale to JDA Software NA
Engineous Software Sale to Dassault Systems $43
Exstream Software Sale to Hewlett-Packard $700
Infor Acquisition of Mapics $341
Mitchell International Sale to Aurora Capital $500
NetMotion Wireless

Sale to Clearlake Capital Group

NA
Neustar

Follow-on Offering

$646
Neustar

IPO

$696
Numara Software

Sale to BMC Software

$300
Overdrive Inc.

Significant investment from Insight Venture Partners

NA
Parametric Technology Corp. Acquisition of CoCreate Software $250
Rhomobile, Inc.

Sale to Motorola Solutions, Inc.

NA
Roper Industries Acquisition of CBORD $367
Staffware Sale to TIBCO $217
Symbol Technologies

Acquistion on Matrics

NA
Tangosol Sale to Oracle NA
Teradata

Spin off and financing advisory from NCR

$4,000
Voyence Sale to EMC Corp. NA
Watchguard Sale to Francisco Partners and Vector Capital $151
Workscape Sale to Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP) NA

 
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