Dell Technologies acquired SecureWorks Inc. (part of ~$2.7B Fiscal 2012 total), a transaction completed in February 2011, structured as all cash.
SecureWorks Inc. operates in Managed security services, is based in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Dell acquired SecureWorks, a global provider of information-security and managed-security services, to build a security-services practice. One of the Fiscal 2012 acquisitions totaling about $2.7 billion. (Dell later took SecureWorks public in 2016 and it was sold to Sophos in 2025 — divestitures, not counted here.)
Integrated into Dell's Commercial/services organization; later a majority-owned public subsidiary.
Advisory firms were not disclosed for this transaction.