Dell Goes Private – What Are The Chances Of Success?

Dell Privatisation Highlights

• The process will cost about $24.4 billion – making it one of the largest ever privatisations in the ITC industry
• Michael Dell’s MSD Capital will join Silver Lake and Microsoft as investors
• The process of transformation into an Enterprise supplier is taking longer than expected
• The ‘go shop’ period will be 45 days, but the process will be extended if the EU gets involved
• Scott McNealy considered taking Sun private before leaving and the company being taken over by Oracle
• Other successful privatised ITC companies include Avaya and ASG Software
• The move highlights the difficulty some leaders/originators have in letting go
• Dell’s transformation should be aided by the privatisation