Close the acquisition of Avira
Delivered by the deadline
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- Announced
- 7 Dec 2020
- Due
- 31 Mar 2021
- Delivered
- 8 Jan 2021
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“Subject to regulatory and customary closing conditions, the acquisition is expected to close in the Fiscal 2021 fourth quarter”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
Gen Digital completed the acquisition of Avira on January 8, 2021, which falls within the company's fiscal 2021 fourth quarter.
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A Gen Digital 10-Q filed 2022-02-04
“On January 8, 2021, we completed our acquisition of Avira.” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved +17.5% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (3 Feb 2022 to 8 Feb 2022). What this measures
Checked 6 Oct 2026.
Commitment lineage
Every time the company restated this commitment. The original is never changed, and the outcome is always measured against version 1.
- 1 versions
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Version 1 · original · stated 7 Dec 2020
Deadline 31 Mar 2021 (“the Fiscal 2021 fourth quarter”) · wording expected
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Version 2 · stated 3 Feb 2022
Deadline 24 Feb 2022 (“February 24, 2022”)
“our current expectation for the closing date is February 24, 2022.”
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Acquisition close
- Indicative materiality
- High rules
- Action
- Close
- Deliverable
- acquisition of Avira
- Language
- Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
- In the company’s control
- Medium
- Specificity
- High
- Conditional
- Yes: regulatory and customary closing conditions
- Depends on
- Regulatory, Counterparty
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- Second check: agreesA different AI model, Claude (Anthropic), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.
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