Mike Lynch Faces $4 Billion HP Hurdle After Stunning US Acquittal

  • Tech tycoon plans UK return to clear his name in civil case
  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise wants billions from fraud case win
Mike Lynch at federal court in San Francisco, California, on March 18.Photographer: Loren Elliott/Bloomberg
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More than a decade after Hewlett Packard first accused Mike Lynch of tricking the American tech giant into overpaying for his firm, the British software tycoon has finally won redemption from a US jury.

But even as he walks free from US criminal charges after an acquittal that defied all the odds, Lynch, who made at least $500 million from Autonomy’s sale, has to clear his name in a separate London civil case against Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.