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Recession-ready Acquisitions: The Strong will Survive

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Well, from a mergers/acquisitions standpoint, 2009 has been fairly robust for security companies. Perhaps there are fire sales going on, or perhaps the strongest companies are flexing their muscles. More likely a combination of both…

Here's what I show so far:

January Computer Associates Orchestria
January Grisoft / AVG Sana Security
January Riverbed Mazu
January RIM Certicom
February Netezza Tizor Systems
February netForensics High Tower (assets)
February Trustwave Mirage Networks
February Versata Alterpoint
April LogLogic Exaprotect
April Marshal8e6 Avinti
April Symantec Mi5 Networks
April Thoma Bravo Entrust
April Trend Micro Third Brigade
May McAfee Solidcore
May QinetiQ Cyveillance
May EMC ConfigureSoft

Have I missed any 2009 acquisitions? (BTW, send me a note if you want my Security M&A spreadsheet that lists almost 250 acquisitions).

4 comments for “Recession-ready Acquisitions: The Strong will Survive”

  1. Andy steingruebl
    May 28, 2009 at 6:21 pm

    I take it the second column is the buyer, and the third column is the seller?

    I thought Certicom got picked up by RIM, not Verisign.

  2. Pete
    May 28, 2009 at 9:58 pm

    @Andy – Correct. Thanks for the catch.

  3. Mike Rothman
    May 29, 2009 at 9:33 am

    Most, if not all of these deals were low value transactions. Some distressed fire sales, others suffering from investor fatigue. And there will be a bunch more this year, and things gradually improve economically, but not fast enough to make a difference for some companies.

  4. Ramon Peypoch
    May 29, 2009 at 5:14 pm

    Thanks for the listing. Two acquisitions that you did not mention:
    1. January – Websense (WBSN) acquires Defensio.
    2. May – Verisign spins off Managed Security (Guardent) business unit to SecureWorks.

    I’d like to get a copy of your M&A Spreadsheet – how can I send you a note?

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