Instructure To Be Acquired By KKR For $4.8B, Or $23.60 Per Share In An All-Cash Transaction

Author: Benzinga Newsdesk | July 25, 2024 08:56am

Instructure shareholders to receive $23.60 per share in cash; Instructure to become a privately held company upon completion of the transaction

SALT LAKE CITY, July 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Instructure Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:INST) ("Instructure"), a leading learning ecosystem, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by investment funds managed by KKR, a leading global investment firm, for $23.60 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at an enterprise value of approximately $4.8 billion. The per-share purchase price represents a premium of 16 percent over Instructure's unaffected share price of $20.27 as of May 17, 2024, the last trading day prior to media reports regarding a potential transaction.  KKR, with participation from Dragoneer Investment Group, will acquire all outstanding shares, including those shares owned by Instructure's existing majority owner, Thoma Bravo, a leading software investment firm, which took the company public in 2021.

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