HP is owed £700m over Mike Lynch Autonomy deal, judge rules

Hewlett-Packard (HP) is owed hundreds of millions, rather than billions, of pounds over its acquisition of British software company Autonomy in 2011, a High Court judge has ruled.The US firm was seeking to recoup up to £4bn of losses from Mike Lynch - the UK tech entrepreneur - in a damages lawsuit that found in HP's favour in 2022. Before a ruling on the sums involved on Tuesday, Mr Lynch tragically died along with his daughter Hannah and five others, when his yacht sank in a freak storm off the Italian co ...