Hewlett Packard is owed more than 700 million pounds ($944 million) from the estate of the late Mike Lynch and his former business partner over HP's acquisition of their British software firm Autonomy,

The UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch, who died last year when his luxury yacht sank in Sicily, had always maintained his innocence.

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.