Symantec
Symantec agrees to charge Carlyle $1 bn less for Veritas
21 Jan 2016
Neither Symantec nor Carlyle gave the exact reasons for lowering the purchase price, but media reports suggested that banks were not able to get a $5.6-billion debt package to fund the deal amid a difficult debt market environment
Symantec Corp to sell data storage unit Veritas for $8 bn
12 Aug 2015
The deal, the biggest US leveraged buyout this year, would give Symantec much-needed funds to compete in the cyber security market with Microsoft , Intel and Kaspersky Labs