Investor Said To Press for Symantec Breakup
Into two businesses: security and storage
By Jean Jacques Maleval | November 8, 2010 at 3:05 pmTo read this article from The Wall Street Journal, click on:
Investor Said To Press For Symantec Breakup
Activist investor Relational Investors LLC is building a stake in Symantec Corp. with plans to press for a breakup of the software company, a person familiar with the matter said. Such a breakup would involve splitting Symantec into two businesses )- security and data storage, this person said. The move comes more than five years after Symantec’s $13.5 billion all-stock acquisition of Veritas Software Corp.