US Justice Finally Approves HPE's Acquisition of Juniper After Months of Regulatory Battle
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The judge overseeing the final objection to HPE's acquisition of Juniper Networks, an acquisition valued at 14 billion dollars, this week approved the original agreement between the company led by Antonio Neri and the US Department of Justice. “As stated in the filings by both HPE and the Department of Justice, the agreement in this case is in the public interest and deserves to be approved. We are pleased that the judge has approved the agreement and we are excited about the innovation we are already making possible for customers as an integrated organization,” the HPE team wrote in a statement in response to the judge's ruling. “While the States have rendered an invaluable public service by bringing to light additional details about the machinations in the Department of Justice that led to the agreement, they have not shown that approval of the proposed and modified final judgment is not in the public interest,” wrote P. Casey Pitts, of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, in his 41-page ruling. Last March, a group of attorneys general from several US States filed a motion alleging that the agreement was not legitimate and that the court should overturn it and draft a new one. A New York Times article published in March noted that the case constituted the most significant judicial review of an antitrust agreement between the Government...
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It has also deepened the integration of Juniper Networking switches and data center operations into its Mist AI engine and launched a unified, AI-native SASE platform.
