List of mergers and acquisitions by Gen Digital

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Gen Digital co-headquarters at the Enterprise Office Center building in Prague, Czech Republic

Gen Digital, formerly known as Symantec and NortonLifeLock, is a multinational computer software company founded on March 1, 1982. [1] It is an international corporation that specializes in selling security and information management software. [2] Gary Hendrix founded the company in 1982 with the help of a National Science Foundation grant. Symantec was originally focused on artificial intelligence-related projects, and Hendrix hired several Stanford University natural language processing researchers as the company's first employees. [3] After the company's initial public offering in 1989, Hendrix left the company in 1991 and moved to Texas. [4] The company has acquired 57 companies, purchased stakes in 2 firms, and divested 26 companies, in which parts of the company are sold to another company. Of the companies that Symantec has acquired, 50 were based in the United States. Symantec has not released the financial details for most of these mergers and acquisitions.

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Symantec's first acquisition was C&E Software on January 1, 1984, and the founder of C&E Software, Gordon Eubanks, became the new chief executive officer of Symantec. [5] The company has made five acquisitions with a value greater than $1 billion: LifeLock was acquired on Feb 9, 2017 for $2.3 billion, Blue Coat Systems was acquired on Aug 1, 2016 for $4.65 billion, VeriSign was acquired on May 19, 2010, for $1.250 billion, Altiris was acquired on April 6, 2007, for $1.038 billion, and Symantec purchased Veritas Software on July 2, 2005, for $13 billion. The deal with Veritas was Symantec's largest acquisition and made Symantec the fifth-largest software company in the world. [6] Symantec made the most acquisitions in 2004 with six: ON Technology, Brightmail, TurnTide, @stake, LIRIC Associates, and Platform Logic. The company divested its enterprise-security software business to Broadcom for $10.7 billion in 2019 and adopted the NortonLifeLock name. [7] On November 7, 2022, NortonLifeLock rebranded to Gen Digital after completed its merger with Avast in last September. [8]

Acquisitions

DateCompanyBusinessCountryValue (USD)References
January 1, 1984C&E SoftwareSoftwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States — [9]
July 8, 1987Living VideotextSoftwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States — [10]
October 26, 1987Think TechnologiesSoftwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States — [11]
September 4, 1990 Peter Norton Computing Computer softwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $70,000,000 [12]
August 13, 1991Zortech InternationalCompiler softwareFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom $12,100,000 [13]
August 21, 1991 Dynamic Microprocessor Associates Computer softwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $22,000,000 [14]
December 31, 1991 Leonard Development Group Computer programmingFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States — [15]
April 4, 1992Symantec UKWholesale softwareFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom $26,200,000 [16]
June 9, 1992MultiScopeDebugging softwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $6,765,000 [17]
June 9, 1992 Whitewater Group Programming toolsFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $3,280,000 [18]
October 9, 1992Certus InternationalAnti-virus softwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $3,260,000 [19]
June 2, 1993Contact Software InternationalManagement softwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $47,000,000 [20]
October 7, 1993 Fifth Generation Systems Utilities softwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $43,250,000 [21]
November 8, 1993NetDistributor [note 1] SoftwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States — [22]
November 8, 1993Trik-Distributor Mgmt Utility [note 2] Management softwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States — [23]
December 31, 1993DataEase Intl Inc-Cert Tech [note 3] SoftwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $8,180,000 [24]
January 13, 1994 Quest Development Data management softwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States — [25]
June 1, 1994 Central Point Software Utility softwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $62,960,000 [26]
June 1, 1994SLR SystemsSoftwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $2,300,000 [27]
September 30, 1994Intec SystemsMobile computingFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $1,610,000 [28]
July 28, 1995SytronComputer peripheralFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States — [29]
November 22, 1995 Delrina SoftwareFlag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada $378,080,000 [30]
June 30, 1996 Fast Track Open network designFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $7,462,500 [31]
June 4, 1998Eastman Software-Storage Mgmt [note 4] Storage migration technologyFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $10,000,000 [32]
June 24, 1998 Binary Research Disk cloning technologyFlag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand $27,500,000 [33]
September 28, 1998Intel Corp-Anti Virus Business [note 5] Anti-virus softwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States — [34]
March 30, 1999 Quarterdeck Utilities and community softwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $78,411,000 [35]
July 21, 1999UrlabsInternet softwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States — [36]
March 9, 2000L-3 Commun Network Security [note 6] Security solutionsFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $20,000,000 [37]
December 18, 2000AXENT TechnologiesSecurity solutionsFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $988,066,000 [38]
August 30, 2001Lindner & Pelc ConsultComputer consultingFlag of Germany.svg  Germany — [39]
July 2, 2002Mountain WaveEnterprise security managementFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $20,000,000 [40]
August 6, 2002 SecurityFocus Cyber IntelligenceFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $75,000,000 [41]
August 19, 2002 Recourse Technologies Internet securityFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $135,000,000 [42]
August 19, 2002 Riptech Managed securityFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $145,000,000 [43]
April 17, 2003 Roxio-Goback Sys Recovery Ast [note 7] System recoveryFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $13,000,000 [44]
July 18, 2003NexlandInternet accessFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $19,600,000 [45]
October 20, 2003 SafeWeb Inc Security and privacyFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $26,000,000 [46]
December 8, 2003 PowerQuest SoftwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $150,000,000 [47]
February 17, 2004 ON Technology Network security softwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $101,110,000 [48]
June 22, 2004 Brightmail Anti-spam softwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $370,000,000 [49]
July 13, 2004 TurnTide Anti-spam softwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $28,000,000 [50]
October 8, 2004 @stake Digital securityFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $24,000,000 [51]
October 11, 2004 LIRIC Associates Computer consultingFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom — [52]
December 13, 2004Platform LogicSoftwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States — [53]
May 16, 2005XtreamLokInformation SecurityFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia $17,873,000 [54] [55] [56]
July 2, 2005 Veritas Software Business applications softwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $13,520,000,000 [57] [58]
October 4, 2005 WholeSecurity Security softwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $68,270,000 [55] [59]
October 7, 2005Sygate TechnologiesSoftwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $176,971,000 [55] [60]
January 6, 2006 BindView Network management softwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $220,716,000 [55] [61]
February 13, 2006IMlogicIM protection softwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $90,700,000 [55] [62]
February 17, 2006 Relicore Management softwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $52,071,000 [55] [63]
November 20, 2006 Revivio Continuous data protectionFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States — [64]
December 1, 2006 Company-i Information technologyFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom $37,000,000 [65] [66]
February 23, 20074FrontSecurityRisk managementFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $7,000,000 [66] [67]
April 6, 2007 Altiris IT management softwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $1,038,238,000 [68] [69]
November 30, 2007VontuData security softwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $350,000,000 [70] [69]
January 11, 2008Transparent Logic TechnologiesWorkflow optimization softwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $12,000,000 [66]
April 18, 2008AppStreamApplication StreamingFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $53,000,000 [71] [72]
June 6, 2008SwapDriveWeb-based softwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $124,000,000 [73] [74]
August 8, 2008nSuite TechnologiesDesktop virtualizationFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $20,000,000

[75] [76]

October 6, 2008 PC Tools Utility softwareFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia $262,000,000 [74] [77]
November 14, 2008MessageLabsSaaS Security ProviderFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom $630,000,000 [78] [79]
March 20, 2009Mi5 NetworksWeb Security GatewayFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $18,000,000 [74] [80]
October 31, 2009SoftScanSaaS Security ProviderFlag of Denmark.svg  Denmark — [81]
January 12, 2010Gideon TechnologiesInformation securityFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States — [82]
June 4, 2010 PGP Corporation Data EncryptionFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $300,000,000 [83]
June 3, 2010GuardianEdgeEndpoint Data ProtectionFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $70,000,000 [83]
May 19, 2010 VeriSign security businessAuthentication ServicesFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $1,280,000,000 [84]
October 10, 2010RuleSpace security businessWeb content categorizationFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States — [85]
May 19, 2011Clearwell SystemseDiscoveryFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $390,000,000 [86]
January 16, 2012LiveOfficeSaaS ArchivingFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $115,000,000 [87]
March 2, 2012Odyssey SoftwareMobile Device ManagementFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $36,000,000 [88] [89]
April 2, 2012NukonaMobile Application ManagementFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $28,000,000

[90] [91]

May 25, 2012VeriSign Japan KKIT Security SoftwareFlag of Japan.svg  Japan — [92]
July 18, 2013PasswordBankIdentity ManagementFlag of Spain.svg  Spain — [93]
May 28, 2014NitroDeskMobile Data ProtectionFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States — [94]
August 14, 2015Blackfin SecurityCyber Security TrainingFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States — [95]
June 12, 2016 Blue Coat Systems Cyber SecurityFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $4,650,000,000 [96] [97]
November 20, 2016 LifeLock Identity Theft ProtectionFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $2,300,000,000 [98]
June 8, 2017Watchful SoftwareIT Security SoftwareFlag of Portugal.svg  Portugal — [99]
July 6, 2017FireglassMalware PreventionFlag of Israel.svg  Israel $225,000,000 [100] [101]
July 11, 2017SkycureMobile Threat DefenseFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $205,000,000 [102] [101]
November 6, 2017SurfEasy, Inc.VPN ProviderFlag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada $38,500,000 [103] [104]
November 5, 2018AppthorityMobile Application SecurityFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States — [105]
November 5, 2018 Javelin Networks Active Directory SecurityFlag of Israel.svg  Israel — [106]
February 12, 2019LuminateSecure Application AccessFlag of Israel.svg  Israel $200,000,000 [107]
December 7, 2020 Avira Computer security softwareFlag of Germany.svg  Germany $360,000,000 [108]
August 11, 2021 Avast Computer security softwareFlag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic $8,000,000,000 [109] [110]

Investments

DateCompanyBusinessCountryValue (USD)References
May 27, 2010MocanaSecurity United States N/A [111]

Stakes

DateCompanyBusinessCountryValue (USD)References
July 24, 2000 Brightmail [note 8] Anti-spam softwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $18,000,000 [112]
February 5, 2008 Huawei Tech Co Ltd-Telecom [note 9] TelecommunicationsFlag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China $150,000,000 [113]

Divestitures

DateAcquirerTarget companyTarget businessAcquirer countryValue (USD)References
March 28, 1989NMBSeagate Technology-CompositeRecording headsFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States — [114]
November 30, 1989Carolian Systems International Delrina [note 10] SoftwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States — [115]
May 15, 1990 IBM Delrina [note 11] SoftwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $1,900,000 [116]
August 13, 1991Zortech Symantec [note 12] SoftwareFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom — [117]
October 30, 1991Read-Rite Conner Peripherals-Film OpsComputer disk filmFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States — [118]
November 11, 1991— [note 13] Delrina Software—$4,000,000 [119]
February 15, 1993RR Donnelley Norwest Central Point Software In-house manufacturingFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States — [120]
May 27, 1993 Overland Data Conner Peripherals Inc-CipherCipher tape driveFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $9,000,000 [121]
October 18, 1993DOVatron InternationalConner Periph SG-Surf Asm ElecDisk drivesFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States — [122]
March 31, 1995CenterLine Software Veritas Software Corp-VistaSoftware toolsFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States — [123]
September 28, 1995 Quarterdeck Office Systems StarNineInternet services providerFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $12,470,000 [124]
November 27, 1995Investor GroupTime Line SolutionsComputer-based managementFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States — [125]
March 11, 1996 Creative Wonders Delrina Computer softwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States — [126]
September 10, 1996 JetForm Delrina Corp-Electronic FormsDatabase softwareFlag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada $100,000,000 [127]
November 14, 1997 Elron Electronic Industries ON Technology-Network MgmtNetwork management softwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $13,500,000 [128]
November 30, 1997 Elron Software ON Technology Corp-NetworkNetwork security softwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $13,500,000 [129]
January 14, 1998 Platinum Equity StarNine TechnologiesInternet services providerFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States — [130]
December 31, 1999SalesLogixSymantec Corp-ACT! SoftwareInformation managementFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $85,787,000 [131]
June 9, 2000 Seagate Technology Seagate Software Wholesale softwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States — [132]
November 22, 2000Investor GroupSeagate Technology-Disk-DriveDisk drives and storage devicesFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $2×10^9 [133]
November 30, 2000 Black Box Corporation Intec SystemsMobile computingFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States — [134]
December 18, 2002 Sonic Solutions Veritas-Desktop, Mobile DivSoftwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $9,200,000 [135]
May 10, 2004 TechTarget myITforum Web portalFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States — [136]
January 31, 2006 Symantec [note 14] SymantecInternet softwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $1×10^9 [137]
March 10, 2008Vector CapitalSymantec Corp-ApplicationInternet softwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States — [138]
July 8, 2008Electronic Evidence DiscoveryDaticonLitigation softwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States — [139]
January 30, 2016 The Carlyle Group Veritas Technologies data management softwareFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States — [140]

[141]

November 4, 2019 Broadcom Symantec enterprise security enterprise securityFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States $1.07×10^10 [142]

Notes

  1. ↑ NetDistributor was acquired from Trik.
  2. ↑ Trik-Distributor Mgmt Utility was acquired from Trik.
  3. ↑ DataEase Intl Inc-Cert Tech was acquired from DataEase International.
  4. ↑ Eastman Software-Storage Mgmt was acquired from eiStream.
  5. ↑ Intel Corp-Anti Virus Business was acquired from Intel Corporation.
  6. ↑ L-3 Commun Network Security was acquired from L-3 Communications.
  7. ↑ Roxio-Goback Sys Recovery Ast was acquired from Napster.
  8. ↑ Symantec acquired an 11% stake in Brightmail.
  9. ↑ Huawei Tech Co Ltd-Telecom is owned by Huawei Technologies.
  10. ↑ Carolian Systems International acquired a 51.5% interest in Delrina.
  11. ↑ IBM acquired an 11% stake in Delrina.
  12. ↑ Zortech acquired 238,095 common shares of Symantec.
  13. ↑ A minority stake of Delrina was acquired by an undisclosed acquiror.
  14. ↑ Symantec repurchased the company's common stock outstanding in open market or privately negotiated transactions.

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