While SunGard Data Systems Inc. has given itself various outs in its $160 million definitive for Caminus Corp., sources, noting Caminus’s unique technology, don’t see the buyer walking away from the deal under any circumstances. And the chief financial officer of Caminus expects the deal to close by the end of the first quarter. On Jan. 20, Wayne, Pa.-based SunGard, which designs software to manage commodity trades, signed a definitive to acquire New York-based Caminus, another financial software company, for $9 cash per share. The deal represented a premium of 260% to Caminus’s stock price of $2.50 the day before. At press time, the stock closed at $8.79.
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