target

Rent-a-center

bidder

Vintage Capital Management

value n/a

22 dealmakers

target

Orbotech

bidder

Kla-tencor Corporation

£2,224m

84 dealmakers

target

Cray

bidder

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company

£1,019m

16 dealmakers

target

Pivotal Software

bidder

Vmware

£2,215m

84 dealmakers

target

Pacific Biosciences

bidder

Illumina

£941m

35 dealmakers

target

Wework Companies

bidder

Softbank Group Corp

£3,472m

33 dealmakers

target

POINTY

bidder

Google

£123m

21 dealmakers

target

Forescout Technologies

bidder

Crosspoint Capital Partners

£1,138m

67 dealmakers

target

Collectors Universe

bidder

D1 Capital Partners

£640m

40 dealmakers

target

Pluralsight

bidder

Vista Equity Partners

£2,810m

84 dealmakers

target

MESSAGEMEDIA

bidder

Sinch

£918m

24 dealmakers

target

OMNIOME

bidder

Pacific Biosciences

£583m

78 dealmakers

target

MEDALLIA

bidder

Thoma Bravo

£4,650m

52 dealmakers

target

MOMENTIVE

bidder

ZENDESK

£2,909m

90 dealmakers

target

Zynga

bidder

Take-two Interactive Software

£9,347m

77 dealmakers

target

FLUIDIGM

bidder

Casdin Capital

£184m

23 dealmakers

target

Citrix Systems

bidder

Evergreen Coast Capital

£12,386m

101 dealmakers

target

POLY

bidder

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company

£2,504m

92 dealmakers

target

X Corp (ex-twitter)

bidder

Elon Musk

£34,502m

129 dealmakers

target

FORGEROCK

bidder

Thoma Bravo

£2,078m

64 dealmakers

target

ALTERYX

bidder

Insight Partners

£3,469m

117 dealmakers

target

Vizio

bidder

Walmart

£1,824m

98 dealmakers