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AUGUST 25, 2024

Kraft Heinz (NASDAQ: KHC) has been a disappointing investment ever since it was created from the merger between Kraft and Heinz nine years ago. Its top-line growth has stabilized Kraft Heinz's net sales growth -- which includes its divestments, acquisitions, and currency fluctuations -- was lumpy over the past five years.

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MAY 17, 2024

As for the 4%-6% expected end market growth, the figure looks familiar enough because it's what 3M's management told investors to expect from its healthcare end market on 3M's investor day in 2016 and 2019. Third, it's worth noting that 3M Healthcare/Solventum was the focus of 3M's merger and acquisition activity over the past five years.

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JULY 20, 2024

In 2019, Buffett finally conceded he "overpaid for Kraft." Although it's taken far longer than anyone expected at the time, the merger of Kraft and Heinz is finally starting to help more than hurt. It's also a position the fund's been sitting on since 2019, collecting decent dividends the whole time. billion, by the way.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

The deal is the latest in a wave of mergers in the oil patch as Occidental looks to keep pace with larger rivals ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) and Chevron (NYSE: CVX). The acquisitions should also enhance their free cash flows over the long term. The Occidental acquisition is most similar to ExxonMobil's deal.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

Reports of the acquisition costs sent shares in Infroneer sliding 6% on Tuesday. Mergers and acquisitions involving Japanese companies in the renewable energy sector have climbed more than eight times to $1.8bn for the year to date from the same period a year earlier, marking the highest level since 2019, LSEG data showed.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Deliberations are at an early stage, and a decision on whether to proceed with the merger should be made by the end of the year, said one of the people. The merger would come amid renewed deal activity in the media sector. The combined group would be valued between $2.8bn and $3.3bn, two of the people said. Source: U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Category 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Six Months Ended June 30, 2024 Net Investment Income Per Share $1.19 $1.41 $1.39 $1.29 $1.48 $2.09 $1.01 Moreover, because Hercules often attaches warrants to its investments, I see the potential for rising acquisitions as particularly lucrative. Data source: Hercules Investor Relations.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

That deal structure is a major deviation from the acquisition blueprints of Chevron and Exxon , which are using stock to fund their megadeals. Occidental's use of debt to fund a major acquisition has burned it in the past. It primarily plans to use debt to fund the transaction (it will issue $9.1 billion of debt).

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AUGUST 31, 2023

Data shows that the number of private equity (PE) firms holding stakes in Indian IT services companies has doubled between 2019 and 2022, indicating a growing interest in the sector. This trend is being fueled by a succession of acquisitions spearheaded by private equity firms such as ChrysCapital and Carlyle.

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

TransMedics held its initial public offering (IPO) in 2019 and saw its stock rise over 300% by 2023. However, in the last three months, its stock price has plummeted over 55% as the market wrestled with TransMedics' recent mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity. This has left investors at a crossroads.

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JULY 21, 2023

During Berkshire Hathaway's 2022 annual shareholder meeting, Buffett told his audience of more than 30,000 shareholders and investors that his company's stake in Activision Blizzard is a merger/arbitrage play. billion in net long-term debt, much of which came from its 2019 acquisition of Anadarko. With a U.S.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Acquiring more income Realty Income recently unveiled its latest acquisition. Meanwhile, the acquisition enhances the company's diversification by adding a new tenant with a strong operating history and financial position. billion into building out its European real estate portfolio since entering the continent in 2019.

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

The company's next big move will be to complete its proposed acquisition of Capri Holdings (NYSE: CPRI). But when you look at the financial results from the third quarter for each of these luxury fashion companies, well, there are worrying similarities to the merger of Sears and Kmart. The difficulty lies in making it happen.

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AUGUST 27, 2023

It was only in 2019 that it changed its name to C3.ai It went public shortly thereafter through a reverse merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) at a market cap of over $10 billion. That is $183 million in customer acquisition spending in order to add $14 million in new sales.

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MAY 2, 2024

ATG, which was intended as an omnichannel retail solution for the automotive industry, was formed out of Inflexion’s initial investment in Autofutura in 2019, a merger with GForces in 2020, as well as the acquisitions of Chrysalis and Salesmaster in 2021.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Whelan then moved to Hogan Lovells as partner in 2006, where he was promoted to global head of private equity in 2012, prior to joining MWE in 2019. Whelan’s career began at Ashurst in 1991, where he trained and worked as an Associate, before joining DLA Piper as a Partner in 2002.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

Koch first joined Kainos in 2014 as an Associate and rejoined in 2019 as a Vice President. He started his career as an Investment Banking Analyst with UBS Investment Bank’s mergers & acquisitions group and financial institutions group in New York City.

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JUNE 16, 2024

Nikola (NASDAQ: NKLA) disappointed a lot of investors after it went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) four years ago. That was well below the 3,500 BEVs and 2,000 FCEVs it originally claimed it could deliver in 2023 in its pre-merger presentation. Started deliveries in December 2019.

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MARCH 2, 2024

Chevron first announced the deal in October, which followed ExxonMobil 's acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources. ExxonMobil and its partner CNOOC are claiming that Chevron's acquisition of Hess triggers a change in ownership, but Chevron argues it doesn't because it is acquiring an entire company, not just the Guyana stake.

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JUNE 27, 2024

The firm said that the promotions bring its total number of partners to 84. Falcucci joined Carey Olsen in 2019 from the London office of international law firm Reed Smith. She advises on Bermuda corporate and commercial law, focusing on insurance regulatory and transactional matters.

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AUGUST 4, 2024

It has invested heavily in developing high-return, low-cost-of-supply assets like the Permian and Guyana, where it achieved record production (with the Permian getting a boost from its acquisition of Pioneer). That helped push its total oil output to its highest quarterly average since the merger of Exxon and Mobil.

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

billion in 2019 to $50 billion last year. The premise here is that all of the acquisitions and mergers carried out by this craft beer king haven't led to long-term results. First, with Buffett now owning over 27 million shares , there's reason to believe he might just end up buying the whole thing.

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DECEMBER 10, 2023

The company expected the transformational merger to create significant shareholder value by turning it into a free cash flow machine. Shareholders elected the Rice-supported board in 2019, which installed Toby as the CEO. The company has made several scale-enhancing acquisitions to enhance margins and free cash flow. It paid $5.2

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Generating 63% of its sales from premium and super premium spirits, a figure that has grown from 56% in 2019, the company will undoubtedly welcome this premiumization trend.

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MARCH 28, 2024

The company went public via a 2019 merger with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ). Target Hospitality is a provider of modular accommodations and related services used in emergencies and in situations with temporary surging demand for lodging.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

These warrants, which trace back to a deal Berkshire made with Occidental in 2019, can be exercised at $59.624 per share to purchase up to 83,858,848 shares of Occidental common stock. Last week, Microsoft amended its previously announced acquisition terms to hopefully appease the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2024

In hindsight, the merger makes sense, considering the proliferation of content seen in the ensuing years. Growing its advertising business While the majority of Sirius XM's revenue comes from subscriptions, it does generate some sales from advertising, mostly from its acquisition of Pandora in 2018.

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MARCH 4, 2024

The item that has captivated everyone's attention, though, is the pending merger between Synopsys and design simulation software provider Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS). And Keysight Technologies also quietly made a small acquisition to increase its own capabilities in the same department. What's the big deal with simulation software anyway?

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FEBRUARY 17, 2024

That's why chip design companies like Broadcom just completed its mega-merger with the big cloud software management business VMware , and why networking hardware giant Cisco Systems has submitted a bid to purchase Splunk to bet on cloud and network monitoring services.

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AUGUST 27, 2024

Last week, industrial and automotive chip giant Texas Instruments noted its chip volumes were now actually below those seen in 2019, the date of the last big industrial downturn.But with the Federal Reserve seemingly set on a rate-cutting cycle, beaten-down industrial stocks could snap back with a vengeance. When it does, look for the 2.2%-yielding

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

The long-awaited Seagen merger is on This May, Pfizer offered to buy Seagen (NASDAQ: SGEN) , a successful cancer drug developer, for $43 billion in cash. 12, Pfizer announced that it had received regulatory approval to complete the acquisition, and it expects to wrap things up on Thursday, Dec. billion in 2022. On Tuesday, Dec.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

First, Kroger's pending $25 billion acquisition of Albertsons and its 2,200 grocery stores would nearly double its store count to about 4,500 locations after a planned divestiture and sale of some stores to C&S Wholesale Grocers. dividend is well above its average since 2019. Best yet, the company's 2.3% Data source: YCharts.

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JULY 6, 2023

a share, totaling an acquisition price of $4.6 This is the largest acquisition deal that Solenis has completed to date, and the largest acquisition deal for a Delaware-based company in several years, surpassing CSC’s $2 billion deal for Intertrust last year. The all-cash deal for the publicly traded Diversey was set at $8.40

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APRIL 18, 2024

Despite lots of anticipation that a deal would close, JetBlue announced last month that it wasn't going to follow through with the acquisition of Spirit. It hasn't posted a positive number in this regard since pre-pandemic 2019. Spirit Airlines (NYSE: SAVE) has been in the spotlight this year. There's a more pressing problem, however.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

At one point, Immunovant was a wholly owned subsidiary of Roivant, but Immunovant went public in a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in 2019.

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JULY 13, 2024

Meanwhile, it outbid Chevron to buy Anadarko Petroleum for $55 billion in 2019. A sensible swap Occidental Petroleum has been among the many participants in a wave of mergers sweeping across the oil sector over the past year. Most midstream companies have the financial flexibility to make an acquisition if the right deal comes along.

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

million shares of this food giant it's been sitting on since 2015 -- and it's not just because Buffett helped orchestrate the merger of Kraft and Heinz back then. But, by 2019, it was becoming quite clear that things just weren't going as hoped. Still, there's a reason Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is still holding the 325.6

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