Strategic M&A

Prada's $1.38bn Acquisition of Versace

By Edward Fung, Freya Zhang, Kelvin Chan (HKUST); Terry Zhang, George Luo, Leo Wu (UBC) Photo: Bloomberg Overview of the deal Acquirer: ...

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Nomura's $1.8bn Acquisition of Macquarie's Asset Management Units

By Alex Scothorn, Anna Chesca, Ahyaan Malik, Aditya Tatwawadi (University of Cambridge); Gabriel Ferraz Girotto, Eva Schuppe, Gabriela...

4 days ago

Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals' $6.7bn Merger with Endo

By Edward Fung, Freya Zhang, Henry Yum, Sanghyeon Kim (HKUST); Moritz Ibe, Avital Anoff, Lukas Ehrlich, Annant Bhargava (University of St...

May 22

Siemens' $5.1bn Acquisition of Dotmatics

By Giorgio Goretti, Marco Morchio, Carlotta Nardello (ESADE); James Searle, Ben Motamed, Greg Dargue, Cameron Hansell (Durham University)...

May 15

ServiceNow's $2.85bn Acquisition of Moveworks

By Kevin Xu , Ngoc Nguyen , Cooper Thompson (University of Melbourne); Amin Ouamar , Jules Bedrossian , Maximilien Kender (HEC Paris)...

May 5

Alphabet's $32bn Acquisition of Wiz

By Aman Prasad, Andrea Defilippi, Jase Lall, Jill Shah, Sharmell Sonia D’Silva (University of Birmingham); Terry Zhang, George Luo (The...

Apr 30

Rocket Companies' $9.4bn Acquisition of Mr. Cooper

By Manha Awais, Prisha Agarwal, Osman Draman (Cornell University); Julia Weinrod, Yuyu Huang, Kelly Liu, Jenny Sun, Henry Yao (Johns...

Apr 28

Scopely's $3.5bn Acquisition of Niantic

By Edward Mazin, Ryan Trachuk, Olin Duncan, Charlie Hogshire, Caden Viehe, Brendan McNulty (UCLA); Amarthya Chandrappa, Howard Fang,...

Apr 24

PepsiCo's $1.95bn Acquisition of Poppi

By Aman Prasad, Andrea Defilippi, Jase Lall, Jill Shah, Sharmell Sonia D’Silva (University of Birmingham) Photo: Richard B. Levine...

Apr 22

BlackRock-TiL Consortium's $22.8bn Acquisition of Hutchison Ports Assets

By Jens Bager, Sam Elfström, Elliot Christophers (Stockholm School of Economics); Annabel Lai, Edward Fung, Kelvin Chan, Krist Ou (Hong...

Apr 16

ADNOC and OMV's $13.4bn Acquisition of Nova Chemicals

By Zoe Thaller, Arthus Marande (ESCP); Amya Hillis, Abraham Vongkhamdy, Irene Souny Bihr, Leo Fridjhon, Janira Martinez, Christian...

Apr 14

ADNOC's $16.4bn Acquisition of Covestro

By Moritz Ibe, Ben Preece, Avital Anoff, Annant Bhargava (University of St Andrews); Haci Eren Sidar, Leon Gaster, Adalia Melvin, Aviral...

Apr 10

Equinox Gold Corp's C$2.6 billion Acquisition of Calibre Mining Corp

By Edoardo Tosti, Alina Shaik, Alex Svandidze, Julianna Zelnhefer (Boston University); Gabriel Ferraz Girotto, Gabriela Pérez-Hernández,...

Apr 7

Hyatt Hotel Corporation's $2.2bn Acquisition of Playa Hotels & Resorts

By: Helena Bhattacharya, Rohan Samra, Kush Mahawar (University of Oxford); Hisha Tharmarajah, Diana Usova, Martin Atkinson (University of...

Apr 1

Baidu's $2.1bn Acquisition of YY Live

By Holly Griffin, Ishaanika Gulzar, Kai Lim, Katerina Georgiou, Tomiwa Oshai (King's College London); Matt Jung, Karson Shi, Mateo Sy,...

Mar 28

Berkshire Hills Bancorp and Brookline Bancorp $1.1 Billion Merger of Equals

By Haci Eren Sidar, Leon Gaster, Adalia Melvin, Aviral Jain (University of Nottingham); Kevin Xu , Cooper Thompson (University of...

Mar 7

Stryker’s $4.9bn acquisition of Inari Medical

By Anna Chesca, Aditya Tatwawadi, Ahyaan Malik, and Alex Scothorn (University of Cambridge); Edward Mazin, Charlie Hogshire, Caden Viehe,...

Feb 27

WorldWide Technology's $1.3bn acquistion of Softchoice Corp.

By Anastasia Malikova, Shir Lyn Lau, Hunter Pang (LSE); Edward Fung Freya Zhang, Harry Yum (HKUST) Photo: Shutterstock Overview of the...

Feb 27

Constellation Energy’s $26.6bn Acquisition of Calpine

By Sam Elfström, Elliot Christophers and Jens Bager (Stockholm School of Economics); Zoe Thaller, Nesrine Gharbe, Stanislas Chamaud, and...

Feb 25

Bell Canada Enterprises’ (BCE) $3.65bn Acquisition of Ziply Fiber

By: Maximilien Kender, Jules Bedrossian, Amin Ouamar and Malo Inizan (HEC Paris); Amya Hillis, Janira Martinez, Zin Nas, Irene Souny...

Feb 19

Keurig Dr Pepper’s $1.65bn acquisition of of GHOST

By Holly Griffin, Ishaanika Gulzar, Kai Lim, Katerina Georgiou, Tomiwa Oshai (King’s College London); Smit Kotak, Diana Usova, Hisha...

Feb 4

Vocus Group’s $3.5bn Acquisition of TPG Telecom

By Kevin Xu, Cooper Thompson, Nancy Huang, Ngoc Nguyen, Oliver Chen (University of Melbourne), Douglas Dahlén, Elliot Christophers, Jens...

Feb 4

PepsiCo's $1.2bn acquisition of Siete Foods

By Anna Chesca, Aditya Tatwawadi, Ahyaan Malik, and Alex Scothorn (University of Cambridge); Muditt Khurana, Amarthya Chandrappa...

Dec 5, 2024

ConocoPhillips’ $22.5bn Acquisition of Marathon Oil

By Haci Eren Sidar, Leon Gaster, Adalia Melvin, Aviral Jain (University of Nottingham); Gabriela Pérez-Hernández, Tarvo Simons, Juan...

Nov 19, 2024

Masdar's $1.4bn Acquisition of Saeta Yield

By Diana Usova, Hisha Tharmarajah, Martin Atkinson, and Smit Kotak (University of Bristol) ; Grace Pui, Mateo Sy, Karson...

Nov 15, 2024

Rogers Communications’ $3.5bn Acquisition of Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE) Stake in Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (MLSE)

By Holly Griffin, Ishaanika Gulzar, Kai Lim, Katerina Georgiou, Tomiwa Oshai (King’s College London); Abraham Vongkhamdy, Leo Fridjhon,...

Nov 7, 2024

Allianz SE's $1.6bn acquisition of Income Insurance Ltd.

By Giorgio Goretti, Marco Morchio (Esade), Helena Bhattacharya (Oxford) Photo: Scott (Unsplash) Overview of the deal Acquirer : Allianz...

Nov 1, 2024

DSV $15.95bn acquisition of Deutsche Bahn logistics business

By Anastasia Malikova, Jack Liang, Shir Lyn Lau, Hunter Pang (LSE), Nathaniel Baker, Lara Grosskopf, Samuel Tainsky (Cornell) Photo:...

Oct 26, 2024

Verizon's $20bn acquisition of Frontier Communications

By Shreyas Mehta, Atin Narain, Omar Ali, Nathaniel Mathew (Yale University), Annabel Lai, Sanghyeon Kim, Freya Zhang (HKUST) Photo:...

Oct 10, 2024

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...

Sep 16, 2024

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...

Sep 5, 2024

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...

Aug 18, 2024

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...

Jul 6, 2024

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,...

Jun 4, 2024

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

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...

May 6, 2024

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,...

Apr 2, 2024

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)...

Mar 26, 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

Diamondback’s $26bn Acquisition of Endeavor

By Aanjay Patel, Augustus Paluzzi, Samuel Tainsky, Nathaniel Baker, Michelle Liu (Cornell University) ; Sean Millar, Ben Preece, Moritz...

Mar 12, 2024

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...

Mar 7, 2024

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...

Mar 6, 2024

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,...

Mar 4, 2024

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...

Feb 24, 2024

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,...

Feb 22, 2024

BlackRock’s $12.5bn Acquisition of Global Infrastructure Partners

By Rafi Glass, Yana Zharkova, James Searle, Guy Collins, Ruiting Yi, and Marcin Wolniewicz (Durham University); Devina Aggarwal, Atin...

Feb 20, 2024

Motor Fuel Group’s £2.5bn Acquisition of Morrisons’ petrol forecourt group

By Rhys Meredith, Aaryan Upadhyay, Aditi Singh, Dominic Zhu, Salah Baaziz and Ben Jackson (University of Bristol) ; Heather Leung,...

Feb 15, 2024

Synopsys’ $35bn Acquisition of Ansys

By Adam Bernabeu, Malo Inizan and Mahaut Bonnet de Roovere (HEC Paris) ; Leo Luke Fridjhon, Xinyue Zhang, Hanchen Li and Abraham...

Feb 13, 2024

GSK’s $1.4bn acquisition of Aiolos Bio

By Enrique Perez-Hernandez, Tarvo Simons, Taha Yassine, Michael Joachim ten Eicken and Juan Pelaez (IE University) ; Sean Millar, Annant...

Feb 8, 2024

HPE’s $14bn Acquisition of Juniper Networks

By Kayley Portelli, William Hodgson, Jingheng Xu, Nancy Huang (University of Melbourne) ; Nathaniel Baker, Alyssa Serebrenik, Samuel...

Feb 6, 2024