Download PDF Introduction Michael Saul Dell, an American billionaire investor, is the founder and CEO of Dell Technologies Inc. [NYSE: DELL]. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, he is the 13th richest person in the world, as of October 3, 2024. Born in Houston in 1965 to a Jewish family, Read more…
Download PDF What is a Hostile Takeover and How does it work? A Hostile Takeover is often the result of the rejection made by the Board of Directors (BoD) of Company B of a friendly acquisition bid made by Company A, as Company A might still try to take control Read more…
Download as PDF BSIC has brought you some of the most interesting deals over the last week, we hope you’ll enjoy! Franklin Templeton acquires Legg Mason for 4.5bn Deal Value: $4.5bn |Deal Type: Acquisition | Date: 18-Feb-2020 | Nationality: US | Subsector: Finance Franklin Templeton, the US global investment firm Read more…
Toshiba Corporation (TYO: 6502) – market cap as of 30/09/2017: ¥1.33 trillion Introduction On September 28, 2017, Toshiba announced an agreement with Bain Capital to sell its memory chip business for $17.7bn. It was also announced that Bain Capital will create a special purpose entity to buy Toshiba’s division, which Read more…
DELL; Market Cap: N.A. EMC; Market Cap: $53.49bn (as of 16/10/2015) VMware; Market Cap: $28.76bn (as of 16/10/2015) Introduction On October 12, Dell, one of the largest technological corporations in the world, agreed to acquire EMC Corporation, the world’s largest provider of data storage systems by market share. This Read more…
Hewlett-Packard Company; Market Cap (as of 27/02/2015): US$63.86bn Aruba Networks Inc.; Market Cap (as of 27/02/2015): US$2.72bn Introduction Hewlett-Packard (HP) CEO Meg Whitman has announced on Tuesday that the company is in the position to make acquisitions with media reporting on Wednesday that the company is exploring the possibility Read more…
In the last quarter report, IBM announced revenues for $23.7bn (consensus $24.75bn) EPS at $3.99 (consensus $3.96), a light and shade result that followed a similar quarter (Q2), with a beat on earnings per share ($3,91) and a miss on revenues ($24,9bn) and the weakest quarter of the last years Read more…
Silver Lake Partners IV, Assets Under Management: $7.5bn Dell Inc. Mkt Cap: $23.61bn Blackstone Group L.P., Blackstone Capital Partners VI Assets under management: $13.5bn Icahn Enterprises L.P. Mkt Cap: $9.18bn Following our last comment on Dell’s buyout on 16.03.2013, we decided to write a follow-up to elaborate on the recent events concerning Read more…
We are writing a short follow up on Dell’s LBO, which we covered on February the 16th. Following his opposition to the offer of Michael Dell and Silver Lake to take Dell private, Carl Icahn, the former corporate raider turned activist investor (who is also involved in the Herbalife situation Read more…
Silverlake Partners IV – Committed Capital: $7.5 bn Dell Inc. Mkt Cap: $23.8bn Microsoft Inc. Mkt Cap: $234.9 bn On February 5, 2013 Silver Lake Management LLC announced the completion of the largest LBO since the heyday of Blackstone’s acquisition of Hilton hotels back in 2007 and the largest buyout of Read more…