{"id":566623,"date":"2010-05-17T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/?p=80329"},"modified":"2010-05-17T10:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T14:56:00","slug":"double-take-acquired-for-242m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/566623","title":{"rendered":"Double-Take Acquired for $242M"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"text-transform:uppercase\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/deals\/\">deals<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/Software\/\">Software<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/acquisitions\/\">acquisitions<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<strong>Erin Kutz wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doubletake.com\/english\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Double-Take Software<\/a> (NASDAQ: <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=DBTK\">DBTK<\/a>), a Southborough, MA-based maker of software for data protection and recovery, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/portal\/site\/home\/permalink\/?ndmViewId=news_view&amp;newsId=20100517005771&amp;newsLang=en\">announced<\/a> it will be acquired by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visionsolutions.com\/\">Vision Solutions<\/a>, an Irvine, CA-headquartered portfolio company of private equity firm Thoma Bravo. The deal has a net value of about $242 million and puts Double-Take common stock at $10.55 a share, a 21 percent premium over its closing share price of $8.71 on April 9, which was the last business day before the company&#8217;s board announced its interest in acquisition options. It&#8217;s expected to close in third quarter 2010, pending shareholder approval and other customary closing conditions. We wrote about Double-Take a few years back when it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/boston\/2007\/08\/13\/cleaning-the-slate-raising-funds-and-filling-the-executive-suite\/\">announced pricing for its planned public offering<\/a>, and when it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/boston\/2008\/01\/02\/emc-cubist-and-others-do-some-last-minute-shopping-dyax-readies-for-an-offering-millennium-sees-a-payday-and-more\/\">acquired data-protection software maker TimeSpring, for $8.3 million in cash<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"postFooter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/boston\/2010\/05\/17\/double-take-acquired-for-242m\/#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/reprints\/>Reprints<\/a> | Share: &nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=RT%20@Xconomy%20Double-Take%20Acquired%20for%20$242M%20http:\/\/xconomy.com\/?p=80329\"  rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" 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acquired by Vision Solutions, an Irvine, CA-headquartered portfolio company of private equity firm Thoma Bravo. The deal has a net value of about $242 million and puts Double-Take common stock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}