(Bloomberg) — Personal fairness agency Clayton Dubilier & Rice is in dialogue to speculate about $1 billion in enterprise software program supplier Pegasystems Inc., based on individuals acquainted with the matter.
The funding is strategic for CD&R and never a prelude to a takeover of Pegasystems, mentioned one of many individuals, asking to not be recognized as a result of the matter is non-public. The phrases weren’t finalized and the discussions may nonetheless collapse.
Representatives for New York-based CD&R and Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Pegasystems declined to remark.
Pegasystems rose 2.3% to $35.99 at 12:11 pm in New York Tuesday, giving the corporate a market worth of about $3 billion. The inventory is down about 70% up to now 12 months.
Based by Chief Government Officer Alan Trefler in 1983, the corporate sells software program to enhance enterprise processes, based on its web site. It sells to massive organizations reminiscent of Toronto-Dominion Financial institution, Aflac Inc., Cisco Methods Inc. and Banco Santander SA, its web site confirmed.
Pegasystems has been embroiled in a trade-secrets lawsuit with Appian Corp. A choose in September upheld a jury’s earlier verdict towards Pegasystems, which awarded Appian greater than $2 billion in damages. Pegasystems is interesting and a call is feasible by the second half of 2023, based on Bloomberg Intelligence.
Even when Pegasystems was capable of trim the quantity, it might possible nonetheless rank among the many largest-ever damages awards for commerce secrets and techniques misappropriation, Bloomberg Intelligence litigation analyst Tamlin Bason wrote in September.
(Updates buying and selling in fourth paragraph. An earlier model of this report corrected the identify of Pegasystems in deck headline)
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