By Anirban Sen and Milana Vinn
May 29 (Reuters) - N-Able Nabl.n, a U.S. Provider of Information Technology Software With a Market Value of $2.3 Billion, Is Exploring a Sale After Attracting Acquisition Interest, People Familiar With the Matter Said.
The Burlington, Massachusetts-Based Company, Which Counts Two Private Equity Firms - Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo - as Major Investors, Is Running a Sale Process in Which Peers in the Software Sector and Private Equity Firms Are Participating, the Sources Said.
One of Its Suitors Is Cybersecurity Company Barracuda Networks, Which Is Owned by Buyout Firm KKR Kkr.n, the Sources Added, Cautioning That No Deal Is Certain and Asking Not to Be Identified Because the Matter Is Confidential. KKR Acquired Barracuda From Thoma Bravo for About $4 Billion in 2022.
Silver Lake, N-Able, and KKR Declined to Comment. Thoma Bravo and Barracuda Did Not Immediately Respond to Requests for Comment.
N-Able Was Spun Out in 2021 From Management Software Firm SolarWinds Swi.n, Which Had Been in Turn Acquired by Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo for $4.5 Billion in 2016. the Two Buyout Firms Now Each Own About a Third of N-Able.
The Company Makes Software Used by Informational Technology Companies to Provide Services to Businesses, Such as Monitoring and Security. According to Its Website, N-Able Counts 25,000 Service Providers Among Its Customers.
Global Take-Private Deal Volumes Have Jumped Nearly 40% so Far This Year Compared to the Same Period in 2023, According to Dealogic.
Education Software Firms PowerSchool Pwsc.n and Instructure Inst.n Are Currently in Talks With Buyout Firms to Be Taken Private, Reuters Has Previously Reported. Financial Technology Firm Envestnet Env.n Is Also Exploring a Sale After Receiving Acquisition Interest From Potential Buyers, Reuters Reported in April.
(Reporting by Anirban Sen and Milana Vinn in New York; Editing by Lincoln Feast)
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作者：Anirban Sen 和 Milana Vinn
5月29日（路透社）— 知情人士稱，市值爲23億美元的美國信息技術軟件提供商N-Able Nabl.n在吸引收購興趣後正在探索出售。
消息人士稱，這家總部位於馬薩諸塞州伯靈頓的公司將兩傢俬募股權公司——Silver Lake和Thoma Bravo——列爲主要投資者，該公司正在進行一項由軟件行業同行和私募股權公司參與的出售程序。
消息人士補充說，其追求者之一是網絡安全公司梭子魚網絡，該公司歸收購公司KKR KKR.n所有，並警告說，沒有協議是確定的，並要求不要透露身份，因爲此事是機密的。2022年，KKR以約40億美元的價格從托馬·布拉沃手中收購了梭子魚。
Silver Lake、N-Able 和 KKR 拒絕置評。托馬·布拉沃和梭子魚沒有立即回應置評請求。
N-Able於2021年從管理軟件公司SolarWinds Swi.n分拆出來，後者又在2016年被Silver Lake和Thoma Bravo以45億美元的價格收購。兩家收購公司現在各擁有N-Able約三分之一的股份。
該公司生產的軟件供信息技術公司用來爲企業提供服務，例如監控和安全。根據其網站，N-Able的客戶中有25,000家服務提供商。
根據Dealogic的數據，與2023年同期相比，今年迄今爲止全球私募交易量增長了近40％。
路透社此前報道，教育軟件公司PowerSchool PWSC.n和Instructure Inst.n目前正在與收購公司進行私有化談判。路透社4月份報道，金融科技公司Envestnet Env.n在獲得潛在買家的收購權益後，也在探索出售事宜。
（Anirban Sen 和 Milana Vinn 在紐約的報道；Lincoln Feast 編輯）
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