Former Autonomy CFO Convicted of Fraud: eDiscovery Trends
Remember the fiasco that was the Hewlett-Packard (HP) acquisition of Autonomy (and our coverage of it back then)? Back in 2012, HP took a multi billion charge resulting from its acquisition of Autonomy back in 2011, one of the largest acquisitions in the eDiscovery industry at the time (and still). HP called on US and British authorities to investigate what it called “serious accounting improprieties, disclosure failures and outright misrepresentations at Autonomy” before the acquisition. Those allegations have now led to a conviction.
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