Elliott and Vista nears $13 billion deal to buy Citrix - source


FILE PHOTO Robert Smith Founder Chairman and CEO Vista Equity Partners speaks at the Milken Institutes 21st Global Conference in Beverly Hills California U.S. May 1 2018. REUTERSLucy Nicholson

FILE PHOTO: Robert Smith, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Vista Equity Partners, speaks at the Milken Institute's 21st Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S. May 1, 2018. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

(Reuters) - Elliott Management Corp and Vista Equity Partners are close to buying Citrix Systems Inc in a deal that values the U.S. cloud computing company at about $13 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The deal, which could be announced as soon as early this week, came after Elliott and Vista jointly tapped the loan market to fund their cash bid for Citrix at $104 per share. Once taking Citrix private, Vista plans to merge it with Tibco, another data analytics software firm it owns.

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