공지 • Nov 18
Salesforce, Inc. (NYSE:CRM) completed the acquisition of Informatica Inc. (NYSE:INFA) from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, 13381986 Canada, Inc., EvomLux S.à r.l., Ithaca Limited, Bank of America Corporation (NYSE:BAC) and others.
Salesforce, Inc. (NYSE:CRM) entered into an agreement to acquire Informatica Inc. (NYSE:INFA) from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, 13381986 Canada, Inc., EvomLux S.à r.l., Ithaca Limited, Bank of America Corporation (NYSE:BAC) and others for approximately $8.2 billion on May 26, 2025. Salesforce to acquire Informatica for approximately $8 billion in equity value, net of Salesforce’s current investment in Informatica. Under the terms of the agreement, holders of Informatica’s Class A and Class B-1 common stock will receive $25 in cash per share. The acquisition will be funded through a combination of cash on Salesforce’s balance sheet and new debt. Salesforce has borrowed upto $4 billion on an unsecured basis to finance the acquisition. In case of termination salesforce will pay $363 million and informatica will pay $253 million in cash.
The transaction has been approved by the boards of directors of both Salesforce and Informatica and is expected to close early in Salesforce’s fiscal year 2027. The transaction is subject to the receipt of required regulatory clearances, the expiration of the waiting period applicable to the Merger under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act and satisfaction of other customary closing conditions. Stockholders holding in aggregate approximately 63% of the voting power of Informatica Class A and Class B-1 common stock have delivered a written consent approving the transaction. No further action by other Informatica stockholders is required to approve the transaction. Salesforce expects to achieve accretion on a non-GAAP operating margin, non-GAAP earnings per share, and free cash flow basis starting in the second year following the expected closing of the transaction and continuing thereafter, driven by substantial cost synergies and revenue uplift with a new comprehensive data portfolio. The transaction is not expected to disrupt Salesforce’s capital return program. Upon close, Salesforce plans to rapidly integrate Informatica’s technology stack — including data integration, quality, governance, and unified metadata for Agentforce, and a single data pipeline with MDM on Data Cloud — seamlessly embedding this “system of understanding” into the Salesforce ecosystem.
As of August 28, 2025, Federal Trade Commission granted HSR early termination for its planned sale to Salesforce.
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC acted as financial advisor,Andrew J. Nussbaum and Meng Lu of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz LLP and Tessa Schwartz, Julie O’Neill, Tina Reynolds and Charles Capito of Morrison & Foerster LLP acted as legal advisor for Salesforce, Inc. Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC acted as financial advisor and fairness opinion provider and will receive a fee of $65 million, $4.5 million of which became payable at announcement of the Merger, and the remainder of which is contingent upon the consummation of the Merger. Brian Mangino, Amber Banks, Max Schleusener, Mark Morris, Scott Ollivierre, David Della Rocca, James Robinson, Anthony Klein, Morgan Brubaker, Robert Brown, Mandy Reeves, Katherine Rocco, Hector Armengod, Tomas Nilsson, Philipp Studt, Matthew Piehl, Damara Chambers, Jana Dammann de Chapto, Ruchi Gill, Daniel Dominguez, Blair Connelly, Michele Johnson, Kristin Murphy, Kyle Jefcoat, Dean Baxtresser and Jeffrey Anderson of Latham & Watkins LLP, Douglas N. Cogen and David K. Michaels of Fenwick & West LLP acted as legal advisor for Informatica Inc. William D. Regner of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP represented J.P. Morgan Securities as financial advisor to Salesforce. Computershare, Inc acted as transfer agent to Informatica.
Salesforce, Inc. (NYSE:CRM) completed the acquisition of Informatica Inc. (NYSE:INFA) from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, 13381986 Canada, Inc., EvomLux S.à r.l., Ithaca Limited, Bank of America Corporation (NYSE:BAC) and others on November 18, 2025.