GL Trade was a French provider of financial order management and trading systems that covered front office, middle office and back office used by international financial institutions. Its main products were real-time market data and trading systems (servers and front end applications); a major part of its success was the GL NET private network linking up exchanges all over the world with thousands of brokers and traders. The company was purchased by SunGard in 2009 and the system was renamed as SunGard Global Trading.[1]

History

GL Trade was established in 1987. Due to the company's founders Pierre Gatignol [2] and Louis-Christophe Laurent the acronym GL has been instantiated. In 2009 the company was acquired by US based SunGard, one of the world’s leading software and technology services companies.
The GL Trade shares were distributed as follows: NYSE Euronext owned approx. 40%, in the hand of the founders were 25,4% and 36,6% of the shares were free floating.

In May 2008 SunGard announced to acquire GL Trade by purchasing 65% in a first tranche for USD 625 Million, including effect of outstanding stock options.[3][4]

In accordance to the AMF General Regulation, Paris-based Oddo Corporate Finance launched on SunGard's behalf an all-cash tender offer for the remainder of GL Trade's share capital at the original price of EUR 41.70 per share.[5] The price per share did not reflect the overall decay of worldwide corporate's values according to the 2008 Financial Crisis impact. Thus the total deal value of nearly USD 1 Billion was considered to be financially hazardous, given the mere fact that GL Trade reported revenues of EUR 203 Million and an EBITDA of EUR 26 Million (fiscal year 2007).

References

  1. ↑ "List of ITRS Partners". Archived from the original on 2011-09-12. Retrieved 2009-09-08.
  2. ↑ "Pierre Gatignol (GL Trade) Notre reseau privee permet d'envoyer un ordre aux bourses en moins de 20 centiemes". Le Journal du Net. 2007-10-18. Retrieved 2011-09-01.
  3. ↑ "SunGard Announces Intention to Acquire GL TRADE for EUR 41.70 per Share". www.businesswire.com. 2008-08-01. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
  4. ↑ "SunGard to Acquire GL Trade | Network Computing". www.networkcomputing.com. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
  5. ↑ "SunGard Completes Acquisition of Majority Interest in GL Trade". www.sungard.com. 2008-10-01. Retrieved 2011-09-01.


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