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Lumentum’s $5.7 bn acquisition of Coherent
By Christopher Shim, Rohan Shah (University of Cambridge), Ho Hai Ivan Chung, Kevin Lee (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)...
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Jan 24, 20215 min read
AstraZeneca to acquire Alexion in $39bn deal
By Itai Almogy, Gaspard Baroudel, Raphael Berz (Yale University), and Nathan Walemba (Oxford University) Photo: Julia Koblitz (Unsplash)...
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Jan 12, 20214 min read
S&P Global’s $44bn Acquisition of IHS Markit
By Christina Lee, Ryan Horlick, and Britney Cheng (University of Michigan), Nihat Anwar, Hannah Ohlsson, and Wilma Tillqvist (Stockholm...
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Jan 12, 20215 min read
Dyal Capital Partners and Owl Rock Capital Group Merge and Go Public in a $12.5 Billion Transaction
By Roshni Padhi, Winston Shum, Jin Yin Moh (Stanford University) and Zahra Malik, Matilda Oculy, Deimante Chailenko, Baliny...
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Jan 10, 20215 min read
Mars’ $5bn Acquisition of KIND North America
By Christopher Shim, Adit Rajeev (University of Cambridge) Mariona Planella Boix, Pau Rodríguez Coll, Ismael Fathy Martínez (ESADE)...
The MergerSight Group
Dec 22, 20204 min read
To The Cloud & Beyond
By AJ Tomas Summary Despite the dislocations caused by the pandemic, 2020 was arguably a banner year for cloud computing. The top...
The MergerSight Group
Dec 22, 20206 min read
Salesforce’s $27.7bn Acquisition of Slack
By Demi Akinjide, Saihejpal Ailwadhi, Ben Fobel, Zac Greenberg, Will Sergent (University of Bristol), Sally Marshall, Max Raso, Valeriya...
The MergerSight Group
Dec 19, 20204 min read
Take Two’s $994 million Acquisition of Codemasters
By Aman Sharma, Gustaf Baavhammar, Christopher Lewis, Richard Isbister, Peter Moravec (London Business School) Overview of the deal Key...
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Dec 13, 20206 min read
Nexi’s €7.8bn Acquisition of Nets
By Riccardo Colombo, Lorenzo Mirone, Federico De Rosa (Università Bocconi) Tim Bamberger and Affan Ahmed (King’s College London) Overview...
The MergerSight Group
Dec 12, 20204 min read
Emerging Markets News - Latin America
By Sally Marshall (Imperial College London) Photo: Roberto Huczek (Unsplash) Latin America has seen some of the highest Covid-19...
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Dec 11, 20204 min read
Metromile Going Public: Reverse merger with INSU Acquisition Corp. II
By Aebjohn Tomas (University of Chicago), Rahul Mepani, Sung Cho, Suchritha Patlolla, Kevin Hwang and Athean Myat (Cornell University)...
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Dec 11, 20205 min read
EdTech M&A
By Nihat Anwar (SSE), Gurneek Gill (UCL), Mustafa Bayramli (Wharton), and Roshni Padhi (Stanford) Photo: Kimberly Farmer (Unsplash) I....
The MergerSight Group
Dec 8, 20208 min read
Snowflake’s IPO
By Varshika Prasanna, Kritika Venkat, Aman Singla (NYU), Aman Sharma, Athean Myat, Chris Lewis (London Business School) Summary of the...
The MergerSight Group
Dec 1, 20206 min read
Apollo’s $2.5bn Acquisition of Great Canadian Gaming
By Samuli Karjalainen, Jonathan Fuchs, Chiara Fulvi, Eden Yang and Lolade Aluko (London School of Economics) Overview of the deal...
The MergerSight Group
Dec 1, 20205 min read
Alibaba Buying Out China's Sun Art Retail for $3.6B
By Ivan Chung, Justin Leung, Thomas Fujimoto (HKUST), Alexander Bergmüller, Huang Haozhe, Friedrich von Storch (IE BUSINESS SCHOOL)...
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Nov 26, 20206 min read
VF’s $2.1bn Acquisition of Supreme
By Jack Briody and James Muse (Columbia University), and Patrick Gorton, Shivaum Bapu, Daniel Winsor, Nicole Phung, Mohammed Safayat,...
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Nov 25, 20206 min read
Nestlé $1.5Bn Acquisition of Freshly
By Pierre PINSAULT, Axel Mebarek and Mikail Boudouda (Grenoble Ecole de Management) and Hannah Farrell, Liam Smith and Liam Ryan (Trinity...
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Nov 21, 20204 min read
Shotcall: From Fans to Friends
By AJ Tomas & Rahul Mepani Special thanks to Shotcall & Thomas Gentle Overview Shotcall is an e-sports marketplace that directly connects...
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Nov 19, 20205 min read
Blackstone sells 36% stake in Rothesay Life to GIC and MassMutual
By Kritika Venkat, Varshika Prasanna, Aman Singla (NYU) Photo: Scott Graham (Unsplash) Introduction Private equity giant, Blackstone,...
The MergerSight Group
Nov 18, 20206 min read
Spotify's $235 Million Acquisition of Megaphone
By Vinay Naik (Warwick), Amarins Laanstra-Corn, Roshni Padhi, Winston Shum (Stanford) Overview of the deal Acquirer: Spotify Target:...
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Nov 16, 20204 min read
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