Close the acquisition of Guardicore

Delivered by the deadline

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Announced: 29 Sep 2021
Due: 31 Dec 2021
Delivered: October 2021

Deadline
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What the company said

“The closing of the transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, is expected to occur in the fourth quarter of 2021.”

SourceAkamai Technologies Form 8-K press release, 2021-09-29
FilingSEC filing index
Deadline as statedin the fourth quarter of 2021
Deadline used31 Dec 2021, the last day of the stated period
TypeTransaction
Permanent referenceKI-C-2021-AKAM-004827
Cite as https://keptindex.org/c/KI-C-2021-AKAM-004827/ — this address never changes.

What we found

Evidence strength A What the grades mean

Akamai Technologies successfully completed the acquisition of Guardicore in October 2021, which falls within the fourth quarter of 2021 as originally committed.

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Akamai Technologies 10-K filed 2022-02-28 Regulatory filing · published 28 Feb 2022 · retrieved 5 Oct 2026 · kept permanently by the SEC · fingerprint 7789ddb1885e
“in October 2021, the Company acquired Guardicore Ltd. (“Guardicore”) for $610.4 million in cash” ✓ confirmed on the page

Market reaction: the shares moved +4.8% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (25 Feb 2022 to 2 Mar 2022). What this measures

Checked 5 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.

Deadline drift +90 days
2 versions

Version 1 · original · stated 29 Sep 2021

Deadline 31 Dec 2021 (“in the fourth quarter of 2021”) · wording expected
Version 2 · stated 15 Feb 2022

Deadline 31 Mar 2022 (“in the first quarter of 2022”) · wording expected

“The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2022 and is subject to customary closing conditions.”
Source for this version

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 Guardicore
Language: Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
In the company’s control: Medium
Specificity: High
Conditional: Yes: subject to 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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