{"id":69866,"date":"2026-03-24T12:55:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/estate-of-mike-lynch-ordered-to-pay-920m-to-hewlett-packard\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T12:55:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:55:38","slug":"estate-of-mike-lynch-ordered-to-pay-920m-to-hewlett-packard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/estate-of-mike-lynch-ordered-to-pay-920m-to-hewlett-packard\/","title":{"rendered":"Estate of Mike Lynch ordered to pay \u00a3920m to Hewlett-Packard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ruling linked to takeover of Autonomy in 2011 comes two years after tech tycoon died in superyacht disaster<\/p>\n<p>The estate of late British tech tycoon Mike Lynch has been ordered to pay \u00a3920m to the technology company Hewlett-Packard (HP) two years after he died in a superyacht disaster.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling by London\u2019s high court said the estate was liable to pay the sum as compensation, costs and interest for HP\u2019s acquisition of Lynch\u2019s firm Autonomy, after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2022\/jan\/28\/hewlett-packard-wins-civil-case-against-mike-lynch-over-autonomy-sale\">UK legal ruling in 2022<\/a> that he duped the US firm into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2019\/mar\/28\/hewlett-packard-six-hours-of-due-diligence-on-autonomy-court-told\">paying \u00a38.2bn for his software firm Autonomy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/mar\/24\/mike-lynch-estate-hewlett-packard-autonomy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruling linked to takeover of Autonomy in 2011 comes two years after tech tycoon died in superyacht disaster The estate of late British tech tycoon Mike Lynch has been ordered to pay \u00a3920m to the technology company Hewlett-Packard (HP) two years after he died in a superyacht disaster. The ruling by London\u2019s high court said &#8230; <a title=\"Estate of Mike Lynch ordered to pay \u00a3920m to Hewlett-Packard\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/estate-of-mike-lynch-ordered-to-pay-920m-to-hewlett-packard\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Estate of Mike Lynch ordered to pay \u00a3920m to Hewlett-Packard\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}