Vista Equity to buy Solera for $6.5 bln

Vista Equity Partners has agreed to buy Solera Holdings Inc. in a transaction valued at about $6.5 billion. Other investors include Koch Equity Development LLC and an affiliate of Goldman Sachs & Co. Vista is buying 100 percent of Solera for $55.85 a share. David Baron, Michael Lucas, and Aleksej Moser of Rothschild Inc. advised Solera, Centerview Partners LLC provided financial advice to the Special Committee and Morgan Securities LLC represented Vista.

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