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Klarna's IPO
By Amya Hillis, Jacob Liu, Agastya Mittal, and Dirk Harrison (Columbia University); Shahmir Ahmed and Francesco Del Sesto (Bocconi University) Photo: Jonas Leupe (Unsplash) Summary of IPO The buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) model and broader shift to online commerce have reshaped consumer finance over the past decade, and Klarna has been one of the central players in that transition. Founded in 2005 in Stockholm, Klarna built a platform that lets consumers split payments, pay later,
Dec 10, 2025


DCP Capital's $1.7bn Acquisition of Sun Art Retail Group
By Ben Marmor, Vincent Daly, Kaiona Wagatsuma, Nathaniel Baker (Cornell University); Ben Preece, Lukas Ehrlich, Joe Taylor , Annant...
Mar 20, 2025


Ares Management's $3.7bn Acquisition of GLP Capital Partners
By James Searle, Greg Dargue, Cameron Hansell, Ben Motamed (Durham University); Aviral Jain, Leon Gaster, Adalia Melvin, Haci Eren Sidar...
Jan 23, 2025


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,...
May 28, 2024


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...
Mar 22, 2024


Todd Boehly’s £4.25bn Acquisition of Chelsea FC
By Samuel Smith, Rhodie Lianne Ferrer, Deepankumar Sakthive and Amarthya Chandrappa (University of Warwick), Adil Amlaiky, Juan Bátiz,...
Jan 19, 2023


CVS’ $8bn Acquisition of Signify Health
By William Dinsdale and Bilal Rashid (LSE), Friedrich von Storch, Enrique Perez-Hernandez and Ties Oudmayer (IE) Photo: Nathaniel Yeo...
Nov 7, 2022
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