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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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

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

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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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

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

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 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

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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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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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

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 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

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

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Nano Dimension's hostile bid for Stratasys Nano Dimension is a unique business in the 3D printing and AM space. Its latest acquisition target is by far its biggest yet -- longtime 3D printing and AM pioneer Stratasys. Nano Dimension renewed its bid in December, offering $16.50 billion to $1.2

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

An acquisition bid can also give a stock a huge lift all at once, and shareholders in Splunk (NASDAQ: SPLK) are seeing firsthand what can happen when a major player in the technology industry like Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) gets interested in a smaller peer. Yet a couple of forces have benefited certain stocks.

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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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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The report cites a document on the pensions fund’s website as revealing that it has issued a request for proposals to split the allocation among multiple private credit investment managers, with 19 January the deadline for bids. trillion private credit market as a slowdown in mergers and acquisitions stifle growth in private equity.

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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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The Motley Fool

JULY 11, 2023

It's been almost a year and half since Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) made its acquisition bid for Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI) , and the two companies have faced an uphill battle in their efforts to merge ever since. That has caused the video gaming stock to soar, and that could have competitive ramifications across the industry.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The dust in question, of course, is the recent announcement that Capital One is making a $35 billion bid to acquire rival credit card company Discover Financial Services. There's a reason, however, that Capital One Financial shares didn't budge following Monday's announcement of the bid. Two reasons, actually.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

suggested that a recent proposal from Microsoft could finally break the logjam that has thus far prevented its acquisition of the video game developer from moving forward. The Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) released a decision early Friday stating that it might approve the Microsoft-Activision merger.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 31, 2024

BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI) has disappointed a lot of investors since it went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in December 2021. initially dazzled the bulls with rosy long-term estimates before it closed its merger. The data mining and analytics company's stock started trading at $9.84

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 10, 2023

The parent company of Michael Kors got a buyout bid from fellow luxury fashion company Tapestry (NYSE: TPR) , which is the parent of Coach. The acquisition will create a massive luxury brand empire, bringing together Tapestry brands Coach, Kate Spade, and Stuart Weitzman with Capri brands Michael Kors, Versace, and Jimmy Choo.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 7, 2024

Why DraftKings soared in 2023 It wasn't just speculative investors bidding up DraftKings stock in 2023. While the stock is still more than 50% below its 2021 all-time highs, 2023 was a year for the DraftKings bulls, with the stock soaring over 209% and becoming one of the best stocks in the market last year.

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Axial

AUGUST 21, 2023

Max shares insights on the world of small business mergers and acquisitions including strategies for securing the best deals, the importance of understanding an owner’s willingness to sell, and how traditional bidding techniques have evolved.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 26, 2023

Just last week, Lockheed Martin expressed opposition to this merger, warning that it could hurt competition in the defense industry. But from L3Harris's perspective, this acquisition may make sense -- at first glance. For one thing, while demand for space engines is indeed growing, Aerojet Rocketdyne isn't winning this space race.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Microsoft is starting to separate itself because it's tied to so many things and we saw what it is now trying to do in the gaming business with its Activision Blizzard acquisition of almost $70 billion. So I think the acquisition is exciting. With really no corporate acquisitions, they do it all internal house.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 1, 2023

billion bid for life insurance company American Equity. The last 12 months, last four quarters, they've been negative, and there's been a lot of puts and takes, a lot of acquisitions, some divestitures. Ricky Mulvey: Then for the broader landscape, does this signal anything about mergers and acquisitions to you?

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Pension Pulse

JULY 27, 2023

Delight at acquisition Announcing the deal to the French market, FDJ’s chairman Stephane Pallez said he was “delighted” with the acquisition. Becoming a foreign lottery operator marks a major new step in the international development of the FDJ group." An Post also welcomed the sale.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 26, 2023

But if you include pending acquisitions, such as Home Point, we're over 950 billion, which is nearly on top of our 1 trillion target. Also contributing to portfolio growth, we completed the acquisition of Rushmore Servicing, which now makes us one of the largest special servicers. And that is now playing out as we foresaw.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 14, 2024

In preparation for the upcoming tender, IGT and our current partners have entered into memorandums of understanding to maintain the existing joint venture structure for the new bid. We continue to expect about 130 million in pre-closing separation and divestiture costs related to the planned spin and merger transaction. Revenue of $1.07

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

Matt Levine : 00:05:09 There’s some of that, but like, you have to like, like yeah, you’re like writing merger agreements and then the other side is marking up the merger agreement and like you’re arguing over commas and stuff. This is how remedies work and merger disputes, right? What was your experience like?

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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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