Stanton PR & Marketing, Brunswick Group and Joele Frank are advising Symantec's $4.65B acquisition of Blue Coat Systems in a deal underscoring the importance of cybersecurity amid high-profile breaches.
Silver Lake Capital will make an additional $500M investment in Symantec convertible notes for a total of $1B, while Blue Coat owner Bain Capital is investing $750M in Symantec covertibles.
Stanton reps Blue Coat owner Bain Capital, while Joele Frank advises Symantec and Brunswick counsels Silver Lake.
Symantec chair Dan Schulman, who will remain chairman, said the acquisition will give the company the "scale, portfolio and resources" to protect both large customers and individual consumers from digital threats and cybercriminals.
Sunnyvale-based Blue Coat, which provides services like web transaction security and cloud security, is a top web security provider with fiscal 2015 revenue of $598M.
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