Complete the merger with Avast plc
Delivered after the deadline (196 days after the deadline)
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- Announced
- 4 Feb 2022
- Due
- 28 Feb 2022
- Delivered
- 12 Sep 2022
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“the Effective Date to be 24 February 2022.”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
The company completed the merger with Avast on September 12, 2022, which was after the initially anticipated February 2022 date.
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A Gen Digital 10-Q filed 2022-11-09
“On September 12, 2022, we completed the Merger with Avast” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved +1.8% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (8 Nov 2022 to 11 Nov 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 4 Feb 2022
Deadline 28 Feb 2022 (“24 February 2022”)
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Version 2 · stated 18 Feb 2022
Deadline 30 Apr 2022 (“4 April 2022”)
“the Effective Date to be 4 April 2022”
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Version 3 · stated 5 May 2022
Deadline 31 Dec 2022 (“mid-to-late 2022”) · wording expected
“the merger is in a Phase 2 review with the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) and anticipated to close in mid-to-late 2022.”
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Merger
- Indicative materiality
- Transformational rules
- Action
- Complete
- Deliverable
- Merger with Avast plc
- In the company’s control
- Medium
- Specificity
- High
- Conditional
- Yes: satisfaction or waiver of Regulatory Conditions; Court sanctioning the Scheme
- Depends on
- Regulatory, Court
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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