Veritas is a provider of backup and recovery software. Credit ratings agency Moody's Investors Service Inc warned in November that pricing pressures, the shift to cloud-based storage and other alternative storage platforms could result in Veritas underperforming the overall market. The re-writing of the terms marks a new chapter for the roiled U.S. leveraged buyout market, where dealmaking has slowed dramatically in the past two months as banks, faced with hundreds of millions of dollars of unsold acquisition debt, balked at providing new financing. JP Morgan Chase & Co (N: JPM ) is serving as financial adviser to Symantec, while Bank of America Corp (N: BAC ), Morgan Stanley (N: MS ) and UBS Group AG (VX: UBSG ) were named as financial advisers to Carlyle when the deal was first announced.