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Apax Partners, JMI Equity to buy software co Paradigm for $1 billion

Mon Jun 11, 2012 7:21am EDT

(Reuters) - Private equity funds Apax Partners and JMI Equity agreed to buy Paradigm Ltd, a software vendor focused on oil and gas exploration, for about $1 billion in cash.

Paradigm, which has over 700 customers, helps engineers to make drilling and production decisions by analyzing seismic data.

(Reporting by Supantha Mukherjee in Bangalore)
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