St. Paul's Lawson Software sold for $2B

Lawson headquarters
The headquarters of Lawson Software in downtown St. Paul, in a file photo from 2007.
Photo by Richard Roberson via Flickr/Creative Commons

Lawson Software announced early this morning that it will sell itself to a private equity firm and a software firm for about $2 billion.

Lawson employs about 3,800 worldwide, including 800 employees in downtown St. Paul. The company states it is too early to say anything about how the sale will affect jobs here in Minnesota.

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