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Blackstone’s $16.14bn Acquisition of Airtrunk
By Kevin Xu, Nancy Huang (Melbourne University), Annabel Lai, Sanghyeon Kim, Freya Zhang, Edward Fung (HKUST University). Photo: Markus...
Lasheeka Ramesh
Sep 23, 20247 min read


Siemens Healthineers’ $200mn Acquisition of Novartis’ Advanced Accelerator Applications Division
By Pierre Caye, Giuliana Vadacchino, Jules Donzelot, Mathis Grandchamp, Alexander Megrelis, Loïc Meunier (McGill University), Devon...
Lasheeka Ramesh
Sep 16, 20245 min read


Aon’s $13 bn acquisition of NFP
By Pierre Caye (McGill University), Jonathan Lui, Erica Chan, Hunter Pang, Lasheeka Ramesh (London School of Economics) Photo: NASA...
Lasheeka Ramesh
Sep 5, 20245 min read


Boeing’s $8.3bn Acquisition of Spirit AeroSystems
By Pierre Caye (McGill University), Jonathan Lui, Erica Chan, Hunter Pang, Lasheeka Ramesh (London School of Economics) Photo: Thomas...
Lasheeka Ramesh
Aug 18, 20246 min read


Exxon Mobil's $59.5bn acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources
By Rui Ren Lee, Ardia Daniswara, Varun Vinay Iyengar, Wei Kai Lim (KCL) & Mikolaj Borowiak, Argyro Charizona, Angelo Passaro, Rares...
Michael Ten Eicken
Jul 6, 20246 min read


Eurazo’s €600 million acquisition of Eres
By Melvin Bergeret, Bilal Chihuailaf, Arthur Delfour, Agathe Melhem, Clément Melusson, Axel Nkam, Victor Zheng (ESCP Business School) &...
Michael Ten Eicken
Jun 12, 20246 min read


IBM’s $6.4bn Acquisition of HashiCorp
By Enrique Perez-Hernandez, Tarvo Simons, Taha Yassine, Michael Joachim ten Eicken, and Juan Pelaez (IE University), Adam Bernabeu,...
Michael Ten Eicken
Jun 4, 20245 min read


Swisscom’s €8bn Acquisition of Vodafone Italia
By Carlo Leopardi, Tommaso Arona, Alina Shaikh, Edoardo Tosti, and Alexander Svanidze (Boston University), Ahaan Roychowdhury, Diti Shah,...
Michael Ten Eicken
May 28, 20245 min read


CVC minority stake acquisition values Hempel at $3.6bn
By Ryan Luk, Aviral Jain, Keerthi Komati and Dhruv Kotecha (University of Nottingham), and Carlotta Nardello (ESADE) Photo: Ahmed...
Michael Ten Eicken
May 23, 20245 min read


Capital One Financial Corporation’s $35.3 bn Acquisition of Discover Financial Services
By Jian Wee Soh, Bharath Sivakumar, Aaren Tan, Arfred Garcia (Imperial College London) and Nancy Huang, Minh Ngoc Nguyen, William...
Michael Ten Eicken
May 6, 20245 min read


VIAVI Solutions’ £1.0 bn Acquisition of Spirent Communications
By Rhys Meredith, Salah Baaziz, Aaryan Upadhyay and Dominic Zhu (University of Bristol) and Leo Fridjhon, Xinyue Zhang, Li Hanchen,...
Michael Ten Eicken
Apr 2, 20245 min read


Chord Energy’s $3.8bn Acquisition of Enerplus
By Adam Bernabeu, Mahaut Bonnet de Roovere, and Malo Inizan (HEC), and Erica Chan, Hunter Pang, Jonathan Liu, Lasheeka Ramesh (LSE)...
Michael Ten Eicken
Mar 26, 20246 min read


Renesas’s $5.8bn Acquisition of Altium
By Adam Bernabeu, Malo Inizan and Mahaut Bonnet de Roovere (HEC Paris) Kush Mahawar, Alina Vendina and Helena Bhattacharya (Oxford...
Michael Ten Eicken
Mar 22, 20245 min read


Cinven agrees to pay €4.9bn for a majority stake in Alter Domus
By Enrique Perez-Hernandez, Tarvo Simons, Taha Yassine, Michael Joachim ten Eicken, and Juan Pelaez (IE University) ; Edward Mazin,...
Michael Ten Eicken
Mar 19, 20245 min read


Diamondback’s $26bn Acquisition of Endeavor
By Aanjay Patel, Augustus Paluzzi, Samuel Tainsky, Nathaniel Baker, Michelle Liu (Cornell University) ; Sean Millar, Ben Preece, Moritz...
Michael Ten Eicken
Mar 12, 20245 min read


Polymetal International’s US$3.69bn divestment of its Russian business to JSC Mangazeya Plus
By Alexandre Anjarry, Samuel Smith, Rhodie Ferrer, Yancy Liu (University of Warwick) ; Argyro Charizona, Mikolaj Borowiak, Angelo...
Michael Ten Eicken
Mar 7, 20246 min read


Alaska Airline’s $1.9bn Merger With Hawaii Airlines
By Pierre Caye, Blake Dal Santo, Yuxuan Zhou, Alexis Bruneau, Giuliana Vadacchino, Jules Donzelot, Mathis Grandchamp, Alexander Megrelis...
Michael Ten Eicken
Mar 6, 20245 min read


Yellow Wood’s $512mn Acquisition of Chapstick
By Dhruv Kotecha, Keerthi Komati, Ryan Luk and Aviral Jain (University of Nottingham) ; Varun Vinay Iyengar, Rui Lee and Ardia Daniswara,...
Michael Ten Eicken
Mar 4, 20245 min read


Novo Holding’s $16.5bn Acquisition of Catalent
By Ahaan Roychowdhury, Shyam Patra, Dimos Kamposiouras, Krish Raj (UCL) ; Melvin Bergeret, Arthur Delfour, Axel Nkam, Victor Zheng and...
Michael Ten Eicken
Feb 24, 20245 min read


General Atlantic’s acquisition of Actis, a combined $96 billion AUM platform
By Jian Wee Soh, Bharath Sivakumar, Aaren Tan, Arfred Garcia and Yagnesh Patel (Imperial College London), Carlo Leopardi, Tommaso Arona,...
Michael Ten Eicken
Feb 22, 20245 min read
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