JAB Holding Company – privately held business group Panera Bread (NASDAQ: PNRA) – market cap as of 07/04/2017: $7.08bn Introduction On April 5, 2017, Panera Bread agreed to be bought and taken private by the European holding JAB. This is the latest in a series of acquisitions executed by the Read more…
NOKIA Corporation; Market Cap (as of 17/04/2015): €26.3bn Alcatel-Lucent; Market Cap (as of 17/04/2015): €10.5bn Introduction On April 15, the Finnish multinational company Nokia agreed to buy the French company Alcatel-Lucent in an all-shares transaction valued at €15.6bn. The deal aims at creating a future innovation leader in the technology Read more…
T-Mobile US, Inc. Market Cap (as of 23/11/13): $19.2bn T-Mobile US, Deutsche Telecom majority-owned mobile operator is raising $2bn in an effort to increase its footprint in the 4G LTE market. T-Mobile is the fourth mobile operator in the US with 45M customers ranking after Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobility and Read more…
KKR & Co. LP (Assets Under Management: US$83.5bn as of June 30th 2013) Melrose PLC (Market Cap: US$5.95bn as of October 10th 2013) On October 10th KKR & Co. L.P. announced the acquisition of The Crosby Group and Acco Material Handling Solutions from Melrose Industries PLC in a deal valued Read more…
Verizon Communications (Market Capitalization as of 27/05/13: $134.5bn) Vodafone (Market Capitalization as of 27/05/13: $169.2bn) In this follow up on our May 25th article(https://bsic.it/2013/05/25/vodafone-to-do-or-not-to-do-that-is-not-the-only-problem/) we analyze this year’s biggest M&A deal yet, the sale of Vodafone of its 45% stake in Verizon Wireless (henceforth VW) to Verizon Communications for Read more…
BlackBerry Limited (Market capitalization as of 27/09/2013: $4.20bn) Fairfax Financial Holding Limited (Assets under Management as of 30/06: $2.5bn) On September 23rd, Fairfax Financial Holding Limited, a Canadian insurance and investment company, announced it was leading a group of investors to take over BlackBerry Limited, the Canadian smartphone company Read more…
SeaWorld Entertainment, Inc. Market Cap (as of May 4th 2013) : $ 3.1bn The Blackstone Group , AUM (as of May 4th 2013) : $ 218.0bn On the 19th of April SeaWorld Entertainment opened for trading on the NYSE under the thicker symbol “SEAS”. The initial public offering of 29.9 Read more…
Banco Do Brasil Market Cap (as of April 26th 2013) : € 27.94 bn BB Seguridade Market Cap (as of April 26th 2013) : € 10.91 bn Deal size: € 3.27 bn (30% of total shares), € 3.76 bn with Greenshoe option fully exercised On April 26th it was announced Read more…
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. Market Cap(as of 19/04/13) : $28.7 bn Life Technologies Corp. Market Cap(as of 19/04/13): $12.6 bn Deal size: $13.6bn On April 15th , Thermo Fisher Scientific, the second-biggest maker of life sciences equipment by market value, agreed to buy for $13.6bn Life Technologies Corporation, a Read more…
TNK-BP Energy Group Inc. Enterprise Value: $55.7 bn Rosneft Market Cap (as of 22/03/13) : $81.60bn British Petroleum Market Cap (as of 22/03/13) : $133.37bn Deal type: Acquisition increase from 50% to 100% all-cash Rosneft, the Russian state oil giant completed on the 21st of March the acquisition of the Read more…
Manchester Airport Group PLC – Market Cap: N/A (private company) Heathrow Airport Holdings LTD – Market Cap: N/A (private company) Deal type: 100% Acquisition Size: £1.5 bn Heathrow Airport Holdings LTD announced on 28th February that it has completed the sale of its 100% interest in Stansted Airport LTD to Read more…
Elan Corporation PLC – Market Cap (as of 01/03/13) : $6.7bn Royalty Management, LLC On Monday, 25 February 2013, Royalty Pharma, the American private equity firm investing in acquiring drug royalties, made an indicative offer to acquire all the outstanding shares of Elan Corporation, the Irish biotech company listed in Read more…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Market Cap (as of 21/02/2013): $249.04bn 3G Capital Market Cap: N/A, participation of $4bn equity H. J. Heinz Company Market Cap (as of 21/02/2013): $23.15bn The Oracle of Omaha has finally decided to put to use some its spare cash and joined forces with 3G Capital in 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…
Liberty Global mkt cap (as of 15/02/13) : $16.6 bn Virgin Media mkt cap (as of 15/02/13) : $12.15 bn On the 6th of February Liberty Global officially announced a $23.3 bn bid for the takeover of Virgin Media in a mixed cash and stock offer valuing the company at Read more…