Initial Public Offering

Technology & Services
Initial Public Offering

Summary

Baird served as a co-manager in this offering

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Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS) (“Qualys” or the “Company”) recently completed an initial public offering of 8,711,250 shares of its common stock at a price of $12.00 per share, generating gross proceeds of approximately $104.5 million. The Company offered 7,836,250 shares of common stock and the selling shareholders offered 875,000 shares of common stock. The Company will not receive any proceeds associated with the shares sold by the selling shareholders. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from this offering for capital expenditures, working capital and other general corporate purposes, which may include hiring additional personnel, investing in sales and marketing and research and development and acquiring complementary businesses and technologies.

Qualys is a pioneer and leading provider of cloud security and compliance solutions that enable organizations to identify security risks to their IT infrastructures, help protect their IT systems and applications from ever-evolving cyber attacks and achieve compliance with internal policies and external regulations. Qualys’ cloud solutions address the growing security and compliance complexities and risks that are amplified by the dissolving boundaries between internal and external IT infrastructures and web environments, the rapid adoption of cloud computing and the proliferation of geographically dispersed IT assets. Organizations can use the Company’s integrated suite of solutions delivered on its QualysGuard Cloud Platform to cost-effectively obtain a unified view of their security and compliance posture across globally-distributed IT infrastructures.

For additional information about this transaction, please contact:

Louis Draper (650) 858-3821
John Moriarty (650) 858-3811
Greg Ingram (415) 627-3279
Erik Szyndlar (650) 858-3814
Technology & Services
Initial Public Offering
Date
October 2012
Company
Qualys, Inc.
Transaction
M&A
Sectors
Technology & Services
Target Geography
North America

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