Splunk Shares Soar on $1 Billion Investment From Silver Lake
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Splunk Inc., an infrastructure software company, said private equity firm Silver Lake will invest $1 billion to help expand its business.
The investment disclosed Tuesday will be in the form of convertible senior notes, Splunk said in a statement. Some of the proceeds will also be used for a newly authorized share buyback program of as much as $1 billion.