By Simon Goodley
Publication Date: 2026-03-24 16:37:00
The estate of late British tech tycoon Mike Lynch has been ordered to pay £920m to technology company Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) two years after his death in a superyacht disaster.
The ruling of the High Court of London establishes that the estate was obliged to pay the sum in compensation, costs and interest for the acquisition of Lynch’s Autonomy company by Hewlett-Packard (HP), after a UK legal ruling in 2022 who deceived the American company to paying £8.2bn for software company.
HP split into two separate companies in 2015: one still called HP, which focuses on printers and PCs, and software and hardware company HPE.
It is estimated that the assets of the deceased businessman amount to worth around £500 millionso the damages could leave you bankrupt.
Lynch and six others, including his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, died in August 2024 during a trip with friends and family to celebrate his acquittal on fraud charges in the United States related to HP’s $11bn (£8.2bn) acquisition of Autonomy in 2011.
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