Private Equity Insights

JUNE 21, 2024

Blackstone launched a $1.74bn bid to take Japanese digital comic distributor Infocom private, including a tender offer for a per-share price of 6,060 yen, Infocom said on Tuesday. read more The post Blackstone makes $1.7bn bid for Japan e-comics platform Infocom appeared first on Private Equity Insights. billion yen, Infocom said.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 4, 2024

The planned acquisition of Spirit Airlines (NYSE: SAVE) by JetBlue Airways (NASDAQ: JBLU) is officially off, and investors are worried about what comes next for Spirit. A deal doomed from the start JetBlue and Spirit agreed to combine in July 2022 after JetBlue won a bidding war against Frontier Group Holdings. airlines."

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 8, 2024

It came public via a reverse merger with a special purpose acquisition company during the SPAC boom, and its stock has fallen by nearly 90% since its debut. Investors appear to be hoping for a sweetened bid from Lockheed Martin to get the deal done. Will Lockheed Martin pay up for a partner? on Friday.

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Northern Oil and Gas has made an acquisition offer for Granite Ridge Resources, a smaller US producer with operations in several major basins, including the Permian and Eagle Ford, according to a report by Reuters citing sources familiar with the matter. The firm’s other co-founder, Kirk Lazarine, also sits on Granite Ridges board.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 16, 2024

When BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI) went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in December 2021, it bore a striking resemblance to Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) , which went public through a direct listing in September 2020. after it closed its merger. Let's see why BigBear.ai Why did BigBear.ai

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Private equity-owned companies HealthComp and Virgin Pulse are planning to merge in a $3bn transaction in a bid to create a comprehensive employer health benefits platform. The HealthComp and Virgin Pulse merger comes as private equity deals have decreased from pandemic-fueled highs. The 2023 MM+M.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 10, 2025

takeover bid from Alimentation Couche-Tard. Source: Mergers & Acquisitions Can’t stop reading? read more Apollo mulls $9.5bn stake in Seven & i acquisition Apollo Global Management Inc. read more The post Apollo mulls $9.5bn stake in Seven & i acquisition appeared first on Private Equity Insights.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The acquisition has stalled over regulatory concerns, and its initial terms have been amended. Nonetheless, iRobot shares are currently trading 43% below the updated acquisition price, creating a significant merger arbitrage opportunity. A brief timeline of Amazon's proposed acquisition of iRobot In Aug.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 23, 2024

Now, with the prospect of lower interest rates, investors have bid the stock higher by almost 15% since the beginning of July. After acquiring just over 2,000 properties from the merger with Spirit Realty, Realty Income's property portfolio has grown to around 15,500 properties.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Adding to the complexity of the situation, Prague-based defence firm Czechoslovak Group (CSG) has been considering the acquisition of Vista’s Revelyst division, alongside its existing $2.15 bn bid for Vista’s ammunition business, Kinetic Group. Meanwhile, Institutional Shareholder Services has advised against it.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 22, 2024

If successful, this will be one of the largest-ever tech mergers and acquisitions in a big bet on the future of AI. After news of the acquisition broke, Ansys stock spiked. The company is now valued at about a $29 billion market cap (lower than the mid-December valuation, in part due to uncertainty around merger approval).

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 21, 2024

Blackstone launched a $1.74bn bid to take Japanese digital comic distributor Infocom private, including a tender offer for a per-share price of 6,060 yen, Infocom said on Tuesday. read more The post Blackstone makes $1.7bn bid for Japan e-comics platform Infocom appeared first on Private Equity Insights. billion yen, Infocom said.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

About 90% of the deals on its platform were completed without real estate agents -- its buyers simply place bids on its marketplace instead of directly haggling with the sellers. But since its market debut via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ), Opendoor's stock has lost nearly 90% of its value.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

billion ), (2) whether it would make sense for them to buy ULA, or (3) or whether such an acquisition would pass regulatory muster (i.e., Still, if I were to peer into my crystal ball, here's my guess at how this all plays out: Bankrolled by Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin places the winning bid for ULA sometime next month.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 5, 2024

The merger wave in the oil patch is continuing in 2024. That acquisition will enhance APA's scale in the resource-rich Permian Basin. Here's a look at the latest oil stock merger and what it means for investors. It drives its view that the acquisition will bolster its free cash flow. All three deals share a common theme.

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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 21, 2023

Steel being "in play," as they say on Wall Street, highlights how unpredictable and shocking acquisition activity can be. When the market opened for trading on the Monday after the news of the acquisition offer broke, every steel company rose, even Cleveland-Cliffs. Although specific to the steel industry, U.S. Adding U.S.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Deidre Woollard: Two state named airlines, one big merger. So yesterday afternoon was all of a sudden a go to your computer moment for me because a big merger in the airline world was announced yesterday. But they talked about what they learned during the Virgin America acquisition. Motley Fool Money starts now.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

It was no surprise that Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) had to walk away from its bid to acquire Israel's chip manufacturer Tower Semiconductor (NASDAQ: TSEM). Because it was still under merger agreements with Intel at the time, Tower did not provide any financial guidance during its Q2 2023 earnings update. Data by YCharts.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Earlier this year, Sigma Lithium was further linked to mergers & acquisitions activity with Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) as the purported buyer. And that bit about automotive and battery companies bidding for Sigma Lithium almost certainly is reminding investors of Tesla's reported earlier interest.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Altor created Eleda in April 2020 through the merger of 3 well positioned infrastructure services platforms. At the time of the merger the company had a turnover of approximately $ 640m. Today, Eleda has over $1.5bn of revenues, driven by strong organic growth of more than 10 percent per annum, and 19 acquisitions.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

It's going to take more than waving a wand, or changing an office nameplate, to reverse years of Boeing decisions to bid low to win unprofitable defense contracts. However, Boeing choosing Colbert's No. And Boeing's space business may have even more serious problems.

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Financial Times M&A

MAY 12, 2024

Value of bids for London-listed groups climbs amid a global rebound in mergers and acquisitions

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 20, 2023

Dice Therapeutics (NASDAQ: DICE) made a huge move higher on merger news, while Sanofi (NASDAQ: SNY) scored a significant victory that has shareholders feeling better about the company's prospects. Dice agreed to a buyout bid from Eli Lilly. However, there was considerable activity in the biopharmaceutical stock space.

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2024

US-based private equity firm Bain Capital is planning to increase its offer to acquire Japan’s Fuji Soft to JPY9,600 ($63.35) per share, surpassing a competing bid from buyout rival KKR, according to a report by Nikkei. Bain’s proposed offer represents a 1.6%

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The acquisition will create a premier producer focused on the resource-rich Permian Basin. The merger of Diamondback and Endeavor follows in the footsteps of recent deals by ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) and Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY) , which are bulking up their positions in the Permian Basin.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

A high-stakes clash between private equity titans KKR and Bain Capital over a $4bn buyout of Fuji Soft is reshaping the landscape of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in Japan, and could become a blueprint for more aggressive dealmaking in the country, according to a report by the Financial Times.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 14, 2024

Acquisition fever The last couple of years have been a period of merger and acquisition deals for the energy sector. billion acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources and Chevron 's $53 billion bid to acquire Hess. What conditions are needed to ensure Diamondback keeps outperforming? million shares in Diamondback.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Macy's (NYSE: M) could reportedly be the target of an acquisition bid, while Cigna Group (NYSE: CI) called a potential deal off. The iconic retailer could be going private, if reports of a takeover bid are correct. The reported value of the bid is $5.8 The reported value of the bid is $5.8

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The sale was made through a competitive bidding process, a person familiar with the matter said, declining to be identified. Reports of the acquisition costs sent shares in Infroneer sliding 6% on Tuesday. Read more KKR Emerges as Frontrunner for £3bn Iris Software Acquisition KKR & Co.

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2023

It has no interest in selling its shares to a third party nor any intention of entertaining any bids for Endeavor, which is currently conducting a formal review into its ‘strategic alternatives’. Silver Lake is Endeavor’s single biggest shareholder, commanding 71 per cent of all voting power and has two executives on the board of directors.

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Warburg Pincus is among those considering a bid for the assets, while Apollo Global Management Inc. A potential bid by the RRJ group could value the Vodafone unit at about €5bn ($5.3bn), according to the people, who asked not to be identified as the information is private. Source: BNN Bloomberg Can’t stop reading?

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 11, 2024

After a media report stated that several potential acquirers are circling around the company, market players bid the shares up by just under 5% on the day. On the last trading day of the week, investors traded on rumor rather than hard news about software tools specialist JFrog (NASDAQ: FROG). That performance trounced the 0.8%

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Normally, acquisitions go fairly smoothly. ONEOK 's (NYSE: OKE) proposed acquisition of Magellan Midstream Partners (NYSE: MMP) is increasingly uncertain. Acquisitions follow a rhyming path When a company offers to buy another company, it generally provides a premium to the current market price. Sometimes things get complicated.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 4, 2024

One area where those positive feelings often reign supreme is in the arena of mergers and acquisitions. This is important to remember as you look at ExxonMobil 's (NYSE: XOM) proposed acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources (NYSE: PXD). But, in many ways, that's just par for the course when it comes to mergers.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The bid values OEM at SKR110 per share, representing a 12.3% Despite finding EQT’s offer favourable, an independent bid committee of OEM’s board of directors unanimously recommended that the company’s shareholders should reject the deal. of the company’s total voting rights and approximately 25.7% of its share capital.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 11, 2023

The technology-platform provider for K-12 education in Latin America agreed to go private in response to a higher bid from a group of private equity investors. Certain other shareholders and employees of Arco will be eligible to roll over their shares in the merger as well. and Arco Platform wasn't one of them!

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