The last company I worked at went through an acquisition with Thoma Bravo and the very next day after acquisition was confirmed we walked into the office and there were security guards in suits with ear pieces patrolling the office. At 9am they locked half of us in conference rooms and told us that everyone who wasn't in a conference room was getting laid off. We weren't allowed to leave the conference rooms for an hour out of "respect" for everyone gathering their stuff into boxes and they said that the security was there for "our safety". Thoma Bravo is currently bleeding that company dry and running it on a skeleton crew while it slowly circles the drain.
This experience has made me super wary of private equity firms in general but this company in particular.
Or Riverbed.
Having several similar products ... you know what it means: https://thomabravo.com/portfolio/all/current/
This is part of a trend of activist investors and/or private equity taking companies private because the Street has unrealistic expectations.
I work in the field and I'm currently looking at choosing software, this info might be very important in these decisions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeover http://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/takeover.asp