Download PDF Introduction Last month, the Japanese operator of 7-Eleven [XTKS: 3382] rejected a friendly takeover bid from the Canadian retailer Alimentation Couche-Tard [TO: ATD], which controls the Circle K brand. At $14.86 per share, the bid valued the business at $39bn, which would have made this Japan’s biggest-ever buyout Read more…
Download PDF Introduction On March 3rd, Arkhouse management and Brigade Capital management announced a bid for Macy’s Inc. [NYSE: M] in a take-private deal totalling $6.6bn or $24 per share, coming at a 33% premium to the company share close on March 1st, and increasing their December 1st offer of Read more…
Download PDF Introduction On October 27th, Elon Musk – the richest person in the world with a net wort of almost $200bn – finalized the acquisition of the social media company Twitter, Inc, for a total enterprise value of approximately $44bn. Musk is the co-founder and CEO of Tesla [TSLA Read more…
Download PDF Introduction Vivendi, the French media conglomerate, has reached an agreement to buy activist investor Amber Capital’s 17.9% stake in Lagardère, the French media and retail group. The takeover of Lagardère, owner of the Paris Match magazine and Europe 1 radio, would see the creation of one of Europe’s Read more…
Download PDF Introduction The first newspaper – a printed, dated, frequently published sheet containing news – was published in 1605 in Germany. In the following years many European countries started publishing newspapers with the first one written in English published in 1620 in Amsterdam. In the United States the first Read more…
Download PDF ION Group – privately owned Cerved (CERV) – market cap as of 26th March 2021: €1.86bn Introduction ION Group has made a takeover offer worth €1.9bn ($2.2bn) for Milan-based Cerved, just days after the privately-owned fintech company snapped up Italian banking software provider Cedacri. Dublin-based ION, led by Read more…
Michael Kors Holdings Limited (NYSE:KORS) – market cap as of 02/10/2018: USD9.954bn Gianni Versace SpA Introduction On September 25, 2018 the handbag maker Michael Kors Holdings Limited signed an official agreement to purchase all of the outstanding shares of the Italian fashion house Gianni Versace SpA for a total Read more…
Playtech PLC (LSE:PTEC) – market cap as of 27/04/2018: £2.50bn Snaitech SpA (BIT:SNA) – market cap as of 27/04/2018: €409.8m Introduction On April 12, the world’s largest online gaming software supplier announced it had agreed to acquire a 70.6% stake in Snaitech, the Italian gaming and betting market leader. Subject Read more…
Melrose Industries plc [LON:MRO] – market cap as of 13/04/2018: £4.36bn GKN plc [LON:GKN] – market cap as of 13/04/2018 £7.76bn Introduction On March 29, 2018, “Project Golf” (as the bid was called internally) got pushed to the last hole, when the turnaround specialist Melrose received acceptance from the British Read more…
Stada Arzneimittel AG (FWB: SAZ) – market cap as of 21/04/2017: €4.02bn Intel Cinven Partners LLP – private company – AUM as of FY 2015: €10.60bn Bain Capital Private Equity, LP – private company – AUM as of 04/04/2017: $32.40bn Introduction On April 10, 2017, Bain Capital Private Equity, LP Read more…
Mobileye NV (NYSE: MBLY) – market cap as of 30/03/2017: $13.63bn Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) — market cap as of 30/03/2017: $171.80bn Introduction On March 13, 2017, Intel Corporation announced the acquisition of the Israeli tech company Mobileye NV for $14.7bn. The U.S. chipmaker is paying one of the highest Read more…
Samsonite Market Cap: $24.43bn (as of 12/03/2016) Tumi Market Cap: $1.83bn (as of 12/03/2016) Introduction Last week, the world’s biggest luggage company, Samsonite, zipped up a deal to acquire luxury rival Tumi for around $1.8bn. This acquisition will be the largest one for Samsonite since its IPO in 2011. After Read more…
Vivendi SA; Market Cap: €30.0bn as of 16/10/2015 In June 2015, Vivendi appointed Vincent Bolloré as the new Chairman of the Supervisory Board. Since then Vivendi has been under the spotlight as it set a different strategy focused on repositioning the group’s activity in Europe and re-entering the telecom and Read more…
Telecity; Market Cap (as of 8/5/2015): £2.22bn Interxion; Market Cap (as of8/5/2015): $2.05bn Equinix; Market Cap (as of 8/5/2015): $15.17bn Digital Reality; Market Cap (as of 8/5/2015): $8.3bn Introduction On May 8, Telecity, a British data center operator, received a cash and stock offer of £2.3bn from its US Read more…
Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc.; market cap (as of 09/05/2015): $32.54bn Synageva Biopharma Corp.; market cap (as of 09/05/2015): $7.91bn Introduction On May 6, 2015, Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:ALXN), the manufacturer of the world’s single most expensive prescription drug Soliris, and Synageva BioPharma Corp. (NASDAQ:GEVA) have entered into a definitive agreement Read more…