The Japanese company NTT Data Corp. said this day that has agreed to buy technology consulting division of Dell Inc. for more than three billion dollars to expand in North America and strengthening its services business.
The measure will allow the computer manufacturer Dell in US to cut some of the $ 43 billion owed to its pending acquisition in cash and social of your storage vendor EMC Data Corp., a deal worth about $ 60 billion.
The Japanese company said it would pay about $ 3.05 billion, an amount which excludes debt and advisory fees unspecified.
The sale will also offer NTT Data, one of the largest service companies technology in the world, bigger in the United States, which seeks to expand in healthcare technology, consulting, insurance and financial services toehold.
Dell has also made progress in syndication of $ 10 billion in its financing package for the acquisition of EMC supported on loan A. This is expected to go increased size of $ 500 million to $ 750 million due to strong demand with the extra money is used to reduce the size of some of the most expensive stretches of the remaining $ 33 billion in financing, the people added.
However, Dell has parted with some of the operations of the integrated unit and some others, which is not included in the sale. Some of the capabilities of the unit were seen by Dell as redundant as a result of the acquisition of EMC.
