KKR to Buy BMC -- WSJ

By Allison Prang

This article is being republished as part of our daily reproduction of WSJ.com articles that also appeared in the U.S. print edition of The Wall Street Journal (May 30, 2018).

KKR & Co. has agreed to buy BMC Software from an investor group led by private-equity firms for an undisclosed amount.

KKR said Tuesday it is buying the Houston-based software company from a group that includes Bain Capital Private Equity and Golden Gate Capital along with Insight Venture Partners, hedge fund Elliott Management Corp. and GIC.

BMC, founded in 1980, was taken private in September 2013 in a roughly $7 billion deal. The company has more than 10,000 customers and about 6,000 employees across the world.

The software company had been looking at combining with CA Inc., a software company based in New York, but those talks ended last year, The Wall Street Journal had reported.

Before it went private, BMC had been fighting with activist investor Elliot Management, which didn't want BMC to stay independent.

Write to Allison Prang at allison.prang@wsj.com

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May 30, 2018 02:47 ET (06:47 GMT)

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