---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-24-001613"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HPE"
cik: "0001645590"
company_name: "Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co"
filed_at: "2024-01-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T00:57:01.811829+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.9
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# HPE to acquire Juniper Networks for $14B all-cash ($40/share); close expected late 2024/early 2025

## Summary
- Deal value: $14B equity, $40.00 per share cash, ~32% premium to Jan 8 close.
- Expected to close late 2024 / early 2025, subject to Juniper shareholder and regulatory approvals.
- Expected to be accretive to non-GAAP EPS and FCF year 1; run-rate cost synergies of $450M within 36 months.
- Juniper CEO Rami Rahim to lead combined networking business, reporting to HPE CEO Antonio Neri.
- Financing: $14B term loan from Citi, JPMorgan, Mizuho; ultimately replaced with debt, mandatory convertible preferreds, cash.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-24-001613
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HPE
- cik: 0001645590
- company_name: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co
- filed_at: 2024-01-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.9
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1645590/000114036124001613/0001140361-24-001613-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1645590/000114036124001613/ny20018436x1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-24-001613
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-24-001613.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-24-001613.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co entered into Agreement and Plan of Merger with Juniper Networks, Inc. valued at $40.00 per share (effective 2024-01-09).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: merger
  - Counterparty: Juniper Networks, Inc.
  - Value: $40.00 per share
  - Effective: 2024-01-09
  source text: On January 9, 2024, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (“HPE”) entered into a definitive Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”), by and among Juniper Networks, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Juniper”), HPE and Jasmine Acquisition Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of HPE (“Merger Sub”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1645590/000114036124001613/0001140361-24-001613-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.