Download PDF Introduction Lackluster equity capital markets are showing signs of recovery, after almost two years of low activity. The downturn was initially caused by rising uncertainty as high inflation, rising interest rates and a gloomy economic outlook that encouraged investors to ditch growth stocks and turn to safer, more Read more…
Download PDF Introduction WeWork has agreed to go public through a merger with a blank-cheque company BowX Acquisition Corp in a deal that implies an initial enterprise value of approximately $9bn for the office-sharing provider. Following the high-profile collapse of its IPO attempt in 2019, WeWork is taking advantage of Read more…
Download PDF NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA : NASDAQ) – market cap 24/9/2020: $305.1bn ARM Holdings – privately held by Softbank Introduction On the 13th of September, Softbank agreed to sell its UK subsidiary Arm Holdings to Nvidia in a $40bn deal. The cash-and-stock transaction will be the largest in the Read more…
SoftBank Group CO [9984:TSE] – Market Cap as of 26/11/2018 JPY 9.614T Introduction SoftBank group (SBG) is a true believer in WeWork’s idea, with a total combination of debt and equity funding in the loss-making U.S. shared office space provider of $8.4 bn. This month, WeWork received an additional $3bn Read more…
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (NYSE:BABA) – market cap as of 20/04/2018: $462.0bn Tencent Holdings Ltd. (HKG:0700) – market cap as of 20/04/2018: HK$3,780bn Introduction The first two weeks of April 2018 have seen a string of aggressive acquisitions and the announcement of financing rounds by companies backed by the Chinese Read more…
SoftBank Group Corp (TYO:9984)—market cap as of 17/02/17: ¥88.84tn (€74.19bn) Fortress Investment Group LLC (NYSE:FIG)—market cap as of 17/02/17: $3.08bn Introduction On February 14, 2017, the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group Corp. announced the acquisition of Fortress Investment Group LLC for $3.3bn in cash. The deal represents a radical departure from 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…
Alibaba, the Chinese business to business e-commerce giant, is expected to file for an IPO in the next quarter; this highly expected IPO, that is valued at around US$190-200bn has already a huge impact in public markets, precisely in two tech corporations: Softbank and Yahoo!. Even if the financial situation Read more…
Dish Network Market Cap (as of 19/04/13): $17.68bn Sprint Nextel Corporation Market Cap (as of 19/04/13): $21.61bn Softbank Market Cap (as of 19/04/13): $52.37bn Deal size: $25.5bn ($17.3bn cash and $8.2bn stock) On Monday the 15th of April the US satellite television operator Dish Network has come forward with an Read more…