A deal reached last month in which the former Silicon Valley software company Borland agreed to be acquired by the British business software developer for $1 a share is now on hold as Borland’s board now entertains a $1.25 per share bid from an undisclosed “Company A,” according to a filing Borland made Thursday with the SEC.
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How long would Ken Klein (pictured), the chief executive at Wind River Systems, stick around should the Alameda supplier of embedded software become a division of the world’s largest chip maker? No one can say for sure, but two years would seem to be a relatively safe bet. That’s how long Klein needs to remain with the company in order to receive all of a $5 million retention bonus promised him as part of the merger agreement with Intel, which offered to buy Wind River last week for $11.50 a share in a deal it valued at $884 million.
Details of Klein’s hiring agreement were filed Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission along with Read the rest of this entry »
SumTotal Systems, the object of competing private equity firm’s affections, said today in a filing that it had received yet another counter offer from Vista Equity, although it did not disclose the price.
Vista originally sought to buy the company in early April for Read the rest of this entry »
The bidding for SumTotal Systems went even higher Monday when the company amended its merger agreement with Accel-KKR to raise the proposed purchase price by a dollar a share from $3.80 to $4.80, according to a regulatory filing made today. That’s 30 cents higher than the counter bid made by Vista Equity, which set the whole bidding war in motion April 3 when it first made an unsolicited offer to buy the Mountain View developer of training and personnel software for $3.25 a share. Vista raised its bid last week to $4.50.
SumTotal, which had been free to solicit higher bids under its original merger agreement with Accel-KKR, has now committed itself to paying Read the rest of this entry »
Vista Equity, which first proposed buying personnel software developer SumTotal Systems for $3.25 on April 3, raised its bid to $4.50 a share Wednesday to counteract the $3.80 per-share offer made by Accel-KKR three weeks later.
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There goes another independent public company headquartered cn Silicon Valley. Yesterday LogicVision, the San Jose provider of technology used to design and manufacture semiconductors, agreed to be acquired by Oregon-based Mentor Graphics.
Under the all-stock deal, each share of LogicVision will be converted into about one-fifth of a share of Mentor, which closed at $7.08 on Wednesday, the day before the deal was announced, giving LogicVision shareholders about $1.42 worth of Mentor shares for each LogicVision share they owned. Based on LogicVision’s closing price of 93 cents that same day, the deal represented about a 50 percent premium for LogicVision shareholders.
That premium is being whittled down Thursday as Mentor investors knock down its stock price. As of 11 a.m. PDT, Mentor shares were down 41 cents, or 6 percent, to $6.67, reducing the value of LogicVision shareholders own holdings to $1.33 per share and reducing the premium to 44 percent.
Late last year, Fremont’s Virage Logic, a provider of intellectual property to chip companies, offered to buy LogicVision for $1.05 per share, in cash, which represented a 114 percent premium to its then 49-cent per-share price the day before the unsolicited offer was made.
That deal was later called off by Virage Logic in the wake of a poison pill adopted by LogicVision’s board.
Borland, the one-time Microsoft rival originally founded in 1983 in a space over a garage in Scotts Valley , has agreed to be acquired by Micro Focus for $1 a share. Excluding Borland’s $8 million of net cash and short term investments, the deal is valued at $67 million. The purchase price represented a 25 percent premium to Borland’s 80-cent per-share price the day before the deal was announced.
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“This is one of the toughest emails I’ve ever had to write.” Thus began this morning’s communique from Sun Microsystem’s Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz to his troops. Fear not, though. With Dickensian flourish, Schwartz lifted up the tone of his email with his very next line: “It’s also one of the most hopeful about Sun’s future in the industry.”
Then follows a stirring paean to the 27-year old company whose board has signed off on the plan to be acquired by Oracle for $9.50 a share.
“I do not consider the announcement to be the end of the road, Read the rest of this entry »
A day after repricing underwater options held by a couple hundred of its employees, Integrated Silicon Solutions filed details Tuesday of a proposed settlement of a lawsuit against the company and some of its current and past executives and members of its board over allegations of stock option backdating.
Although the defendants in the matter — including the company’s chief executive, Jimmy Lee — deny “each and every allegation” made in the complaint, Read the rest of this entry »
Silicon Graphics will have its shares delisted from the Nasdaq stock market beginning Thursday morning, according to an SEC filing it made Monday. The news was delivered last week to the Sunnyvale computer maker in a letter from Nasdaq that said the company had failed to become compliant with a rule that the company maintain Read the rest of this entry »
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