The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

regulatory agencies, have cast uncertainty on the merger's future. The acquisition could well elevate Microsoft's standing in the gaming industry as a whole. The Activision Blizzard deal continues to face regulatory hurdles Despite its immense potential, the acquisition faces substantial regulatory obstacles, particularly in the U.K.

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Private Equity Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Foreign funds like Bain have significantly increased their acquisitions in Japan, pushing inbound mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the country to the top of Asias leaderboard in 2024 the first time since 1999.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 27, 2023

But in the investment banking world, the best time to finalize potential mergers or acquisitions is over the weekend, as markets aren't open and companies don't have to worry about the potential for leaked information to cause an immediate spike in share prices. With this bid valuing American Equity at $4.3

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 22, 2024

Energy companies have signed over $180 billion in merger agreements over the last six months. However, Devon Energy (NYSE: DVN) has gotten left out of the current merger wave washing over the oil patch. The oil producer has reportedly pursued several acquisition targets, only to lose to a competitor.

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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

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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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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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

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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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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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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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

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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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

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

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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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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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

The company has previously rejected four approaches from KKR, including a 48p per share bid last month. Assura also turned down an all-share merger proposal from Primary Health Properties, which was valued at approximately 43p per share, determining that the KKR-Stonepeak cash offer was more compelling.

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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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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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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

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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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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Axial

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Ashlyn Falahee, VP of Sales & Marketing, Sun Protection of Florida Peakstone Group is a Chicago-based, 40+ person investment bank that specializes in mergers and acquisitions advisory and capital raising.

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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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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

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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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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