Director of Western Digital Corporation will continue to be Steve Milligan , as well as to continue the company's headquarters in Irvine, California. Director, SanDisk will leave his post and become a member of directors board of of Western Digital Corporation. For each share SanDisk will be paid $ 67.50 and 0.2387 shares given to Western Digital Corporation. The total purchase price will be about $ 16 billion. The initial amount of $ 19 billion. Will be reduced, as US regulators have not allowed the company Western Digital Corporation to sell 15% stake in the Chinese company Unisplendour Corporation Limited (Unis). This condition was originally written in agreement with SanDisk.
According to German sources, the brand "SanDisk" become a brand Western Digital Corporation. The former company will work independently with respect to a part of the parent company, for example, as a part of Western Digital Corporation employs a team of HGST.
At the same time, the company Western Digital Corporation has levers of influence on the business SanDisk. The latter is working closely with the Japanese company Toshiba, which plants, laboratories and ... a lot of money on production.