Monday, January 10, 2011

iGate acquires Patni

FYI:

Finally the much delayed deal between Patni Computer Systems Ltd. iGate is inked and iGate CEO Phaneesh Murthy made it official today.

US-Based iGate has acquired close to 63% stake in Patni Computer Systems ltd which is Currently India’s Sixth largest IT firm.

The deal is said to be 1.22 USD billion, iGate will buy 46% of stake from Patni Brothers and 17.3% from Genral atlantic.

This makes the combined entity of iGate-Patni a billion dollar company which reported $941 million in the third quarter of 2010 and the total head count shoots up to 25 thousand.

M$K

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