Clayton, Dubilier & Rice's $7bn Acquisition of Focus Financial Partners
By Marvin Stenersen and Gabriela Lenerte (Stockholm School of Economics), Michele Silvestri, Kayla Ho and Jia-Jian Gan (LSE) Photo: Timo...
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- Feb 14
- 5 min
Intercontinental Exchange’s $16bn Acquisition of Black Knight
By Jack Lee, Ryan Chan, Heather Leung and Terry Au-Yeung (HKUST), Friedrich von Storch, Enrique Pérez-Hernández and Ties Oudmayer (IE...
- Feb 6
- 4 min
Nuvei’s $1.3bn Acquisition of Paya
By Anna Muizniece and Carl-Gabrial Jakobsson (Stockholm School Of Economics), Rhys Meredith, Salah Baaziz, Kian Patel, Oliver Platts,...
- Jan 17
- 5 min
RBC’s C$13.5bn Acquisition of HSBC Canada
By Jack Lee, Jeremia Darmadi, Heather Leung, Sissi Zeng and Victor Leung (HKUST), Ayushman Mukherjee, Matthew Liu and Divy Dayal...
- Oct 31, 2022
- 4 min
EQT’s $1.7bn Acquisition of Billtrust
By Théo Leleup and Tom Bendinelli (HEC Paris), Nishil Lakhani (University of Nottingham) Photo: Nathan Dumlao (Unsplash) Overview of the...
- Mar 15, 2022
- 3 min
KKR’s £1.56b Acquisition of Accell Group
Martin Palomar, Tom Bendinelli, Dorian Song and Léo Clément (HEC Paris) Photo: Coen van de Broek (Unsplash) Introduction On January 24,...
- Mar 15, 2022
- 7 min
Financial Services M&A
By: Gurneek Gill (McGill), Francois Herman (McGill), Juan Bátiz (McGill), Abilash Prabhakaran (MIT) Photo: Marga Santoso (Unsplash) I....
- Mar 7, 2022
- 5 min
Madison Dearborn Partners $1.8BN Acquisition of MoneyGram
By Dillan Pindoria, Hassan Wahba, Holly Bridges, Bhav Rambhiya and Nishil Lakhani (University of Nottingham) and Felix Hooper, Gonzalo...
- Feb 28, 2022
- 4 min
SoFi’s $1.1bn Acquisition of Technisys
By Shivaum Bapu, Daniel Winsor, Mohammed Safayat and Pristie Sharma (UCL) and Matilda Oculy and András Szabó (The University of...
- Jan 26, 2022
- 5 min
State Street’s $3.5bn Acquisition of Brown Brothers Harriman’s Investor Services Unit
By Adil Amlaiky, Paul Bernard, Francois Herman, and Blake Dal Santo (McGill University), Athean Myat, May Takagi, and James Ludlow...
- Jan 14, 2022
- 4 min
Goldman Sachs’s $2.24bn Acquisition of Greensky
By Luc Roberts and Priyanshu Srivastava (Warwick), and Abilash Prabhakaran (MIT) Photo: Vladimir Mun (Unsplash) Overview of the deal...
- Jan 14, 2022
- 4 min
BMO’s $16.3 bn Acquisition of BNP Paribas’ Bank of the West
By Adil Amlaiky, Anish Umasuthan, and Karen Zhuang (McGill University), Demi Akinjide, Ujwal Gurung, and Ishaan Patel (University of...
- Sep 15, 2021
- 5 min
Goldman Sachs’ $2bn Acquisition of NNIP
By Haozhe(James) Huang, Friedrich von Storch and Yujia Bao (IE Business School), Anna Muizniece, Simon Gustafsson and Knut Örnéus...
- Apr 25, 2021
- 4 min
HIG Capital’s £400m Acquisition of KPMG UK Restructuring
By David Summers (London School of Economics) Photo: Sven Piper (Unsplash) Overview of the deal Acquirer: H.I.G. Capital Target: KPMG UK...
- Feb 7, 2021
- 5 min
FTAC Olympus’s $3.3bn Acquisition of Payoneer
By Samuli Karjalainen, Chiara Fulvi, Jonathan Fuchs, Lolade Aluko, Eden Yang (LSE), and André Assouline, Olivier Baverez, Alexis Bernet,...
- Jan 12, 2021
- 5 min
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...
- Jan 10, 2021
- 5 min
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...
- Nov 18, 2020
- 6 min
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,...
- Oct 27, 2020
- 5 min
Euronext’s €4.3bn acquisition of Borsa Italiana
By Lucy Chen, Jessica Tang (University of Melbourne) and Demi Akinjide, Saihejpal Ailwadhi, Zac Greenberg, Will Sergent, Ben Fobel...
- Oct 13, 2020
- 5 min
Morgan Stanley’s $7bn acquisition of Eaton Vance
By Alexander Bergmüller & Friedrich von Storch (IE Business School), and Mariona Planella Boix (ESADE Business School) Overview of the...
- Oct 2, 2020
- 6 min
CaixaBank’s €4.5bn Merger With Bankia
By Hannah Farrell, Liam Smith, Liam Ryan (TCD), and Shivaum Bapu, Patrick Gorton, Daniel Winsor, Nicole Phung, Pristie Sharma, Gurneek...
- Apr 7, 2020
- 6 min
Aon’s $30 bn Acquisition of Willis Towers Watson
The all-stock transaction, in which each Willis Towers Watson share will be exchanged for 1.08 Aon shares, values WTW’s equity at $30bn
- Mar 8, 2020
- 4 min
Morgan Stanley’s $13 billion Acquisition of E-Trade
Morgan Stanley announced that it will merge its financial-advisor-driven business with E-Trade’s digital brokerage and banking business.
- Feb 25, 2020
- 5 min
Fidelity National’s $2.7 bn Acquisition of FGL Holdings
Fidelity National Financial has agreed to acquire FGL Holdings for $2.7 billion in a move that will diversify...
- Feb 1, 2020
- 5 min
Visa's $5.3 bn Acquisition of Plaid
Visa is acquiring fintech start-up Plaid for $5.3 billion - double Plaid’s latest funding round valuation...
- Jan 20, 2020
- 6 min
Charles Schwab's $26bn acquisition of TD Ameritrade
The Charles Schwab Corporation has acquired TD-Ameritrade in an all-stock $26bn deal to create a mammoth in the wealth management space.
- Aug 24, 2019
- 6 min
London Stock Exchange’s $27bn acquisition of Refinitiv
London Stock Exchange acquires Refinitiv, Reuters' divested business to Blackstone last year, for $27bn.
- Apr 7, 2019
- 6 min
FIS’ $43 billion Acquisition of Worldpay
Two months after the announcement of Fiserv-FirstData merger, FIS launched a $43bn bid on British payments processing rival Worldpay.
- Feb 27, 2019
- 4 min
BB&T’s $28.4bn acquisition of SunTrust
In what is the first major banking merger in years, BB&T and SunTrust, two prominent super-regional banks in the US, have agreed to unite.
- Feb 16, 2019
- 6 min
Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank’s $114bn Merger with Union National Bank
The $114bn merger between Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank and Union National Bank propagated the consolidation trend in the overbanked GCC region.
- Feb 6, 2019
- 5 min
Euronext’s €625 million ‘in-the-balance’ bid for Oslo Bors
In an attempt to diversify away from cash trading Euronext has bid €625 mn for the Norwegian exchange Oslo Bors.
- May 31, 2018
- 4 min
PayPal’s $2.2 billion Acquisition of iZettle
Overview of the deal Acquirer: PayPal Target: iZettle Estimated value: $2.2 bn Announcement date: 05/18 PayPal Advisors: Evercore -...
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