Lawson Software said late on Friday it had received an unsolicited bid from privately held software company Infor and Golden Gate Capital to acquire all its outstanding common stock at $11.25 per share in cash. Shares of the softmaker closed on Friday at $11.55, after having risen 18 percent since Tuesday, when Reuters reported it had hired Barclays Capital to explore a sale of the business. The offer price from Infor and Golden Gate Capital -- a San Francisco private equity firm that holds a major stake in Infor -- would value Lawson at $1.8 billion.
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