Under the terms of the deal announced July 1, shareholders of Blackboard will receive $45 for each share of Blackboard they own. The investor group has also agreed to take on $130 million in Blackboard’s debt.
Blackboard’s board of directors has unanimously approved the deal, but shareholder and regulators still must approve the terms.
Blackboard’s senior management will remain in place, and the massive learning management system (LMS) company doesn’t have plans to immediately change “policy, pricing, or strategy” after its purchase by Providence, Ray Henderson, president of Blackboard’s teaching and learning division, wrote in a July 1 blog post…
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