Elliott Management $1.6 billion acquisition of Gigamon

Overview:

• Elliott Management has acquired Gigamon for $1.6 billion.
• Gigamon will become a privately held company. 
• Gigamon is a network visibility and traffic monitoring technology vendor.
• Goldman Sachs provided financial advice to Gigamon, while Jefferies Finance and Macquarie Capital advised Elliott.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch acted as structuring agent.

Katrin Kostadinova - Data analyst