The US criminal trial follows a civil trial in the UK in which a judge found Hewlett Packard Enterprise had "substantially succeeded" in its multibillion-pound lawsuit against Lynch, who co-founded Autonomy in 1996, for fraud in company accounts leading up to the takeover. Earlier this year, HPE sought $4 billion (£3.17 billion) in damages relating to the case. Lynch's team plan to appeal the civil case. They claim that the devaluation of Autonomy was due to HPE's mismanagement of the company it acquired, rather than accounting fraud.