{"id":7225,"date":"2013-05-01T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2640608"},"modified":"2013-05-01T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T17:25:00","slug":"bmc-could-reportedly-go-for-around-6-5-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/bmc-could-reportedly-go-for-around-6-5-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"BMC Could Reportedly Go for Around $6.5 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital are the leading contenders to buy BMC Software for more than $6.5 billion, according to Reuters, which says they made a binding offer on April 22.<br \/>\nThe price the pair offered was more than that of a rival consortium consisting of KKR, TPG Capital and Thoma Bravo.<br \/>\nThe wire service couldn\u2019t learn the exact bid but it appears to be in the range of $45-$50 a share. Expecting a deal the stock is currently trading at $45 and change for a market cap of $6.51 billion.<br \/>\nThe rival consortium could sweeten the pot or BMC could decide not to sell. But it appears it will try to finalize a deal in the coming days. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2640608\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital are the leading contenders to buy BMC Software for more than $6.5 billion, according to Reuters, which says they made a binding offer on April 22.<br \/>\nThe price the pair offered was more than that of a rival consortium &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}