Chiquita Brands International; market cap (as of 31/10/2014): $676.30mln On Monday October 27th Chiquita Brands International (CQB.N) finally agreed to be acquired for $682mln by Cutrale Group and Safra Group. Therefore, shareholders will receive $14.50 for each of their shares in cash. The price offered is 44% more than Chiquita’s Read more…
Pershing Square Holdings Market Cap (as of 31/10/2014): $6.181bn Pershing Square Holdings, the hedge fund company founded in 2003 by Bill Ackman, the activist investor and Harvard alumnus who boasts a $1.2bn net worth, raised $2.73bn floating for the first time in the Euronext Amsterdam on October 13th. The fund, Read more…
HP; market cap (as of 10/10/2014): $62.52bn On October 6, 2014 the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) released its plans to split by end of October 2015 into two potentially Fortune 50 companies: business-oriented HP Enterprise and personal systems-oriented HP Inc. The split is intended to be tax-free for the current shareholders Read more…
Rio Tinto Plc; market cap (as of 10/10/2014): £55.42bn Glencore Plc; market cap (as of 10/10/2014): £41.52bn Rio Tinto, the England-based second-largest supplier of iron ore worldwide, has rejected a merger proposal from the smaller Switzerland-based rival Glencore, preventing a deal that would have created the largest player in mining Read more…
Citigroup Inc.; market cap (as of 10/10/2014): $151.92bn On October 8, 2014, Citigroup filed for a $50m initial public offering of its subprime consumer lending business OneMain Financial. The $50m offering is just a placeholder amount, a figure used to calculate registration fees, but if the transaction goes ahead the Read more…
Yahoo! Inc.; Market Cap (as of 03/10/2014): $40.28bn Yahoo!, the American multinational corporation, is at a turning point of its existence: being the second largest shareholder in the e-commerce company Alibaba, it was to forced to sell 27% of its stake after the Chinese giant went public on September 19 Read more…
UniCredit SpA; Market Cap (as of 03/10/2014): €35.45bn Santander SA; Market Cap (as of 03/10/2014): €87.68bn On September 22, UniCredit, the largest Italian bank by assets, and Santander, the largest bank in the Eurozone by market value, are in talks to merge their asset management units to create a European Read more…
eBay Inc, Market Cap (as of 03/10/2014): $67.46bn On September 30, John Danahoe, president and CEO of eBay, revealed the intention to spin-off its payments arm PayPal into a publicly traded company by the end of the next year. The CEO pointed out that, although both companies are already two Read more…
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International; Market Cap. (as of 3/10/2014): $42.9bn Allergan Inc.; Market Cap. (as of 3/10/2014): $53.64bn As low debt obligations alongside large cash holdings and patent expiration liabilities continue to foster a conducive environment for M&A activity in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry another multi-billion dollar struggle has emerged: Read more…
Merck KGaA, Market Cap (as of 26/09/2014): €31.4bn Sigma-Aldrich Corp., Market Cap (as of 26/09/2014): $16.2bn On September 22, 2014, the German drug and chemicals company Merck KGaA announced a definitive agreement under which it will acquire the US-based leading life science consumables supplier Sigma-Aldrich for $17bn, creating one of Read more…
Siemens AG, Market Cap (as of 26/09/2014): €83.16bn Dresser-Rand Group Inc., Market Cap (as of 26/09/2014): $6.3bn Siemens AG (NYSE:SI), the Munich-based global powerhouse in electronics and electrical engineering, has agreed to acquire Dresser-Rand Group Inc. (NYSE:DRC), the Houston-based leading supplier of equipment for the oil and gas sector. According Read more…
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., Market Cap (as of 26/09/2014): $222.98bn In September 2014, the Chinese e-commerce Alibaba secured its place as a major global company by completing the world’s largest IPO with a price of $68 per share. Due to a very strong demand, the bankers running the deal decided Read more…
Intercontinental Exchange Inc, Market Cap (as of 19/09/2014): $23.45bn Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), announced on September 5, 2014 that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SuperDerivatives, a leading provider of risk management analytics, financial market data and valuation services. The acquisition will accelerate the expansion of ICE’s Read more…
Anheuser-Busch InBev NV, Market Cap (as of 19/09/2014): Market Cap €143bn SABMiller PLC, Market Cap (as of 19/09/2014): Market Cap €73bn Heineken NV, Market Cap (as of 19/09/2014): Market €34bn Beer brewing was historically a local business, with only few brands having a global presence in the estimated $600bn market. Read more…
AbbVie Inc., Market Cap (as of 19/09/2014): $94.63bn Shire plc., Market Cap (as of 19/09/2014): £31.12bn In its attempt to become one of the global leaders in the rare diseases market, AbbVie successfully got the approval from Shire’s board of directors for its $54bn acquisition. This approval came after two Read more…