Blackstone’s $14bn Acquisition of Emerson Electric Climate Technologies
By Marvin Stenersen Stockholm and Carl-Gabriel Jakobsson (Stockholm School of Economics), Jack Lee, Ryan Chan, Jeremy Darmadi and Heather...
- 5 days ago
- 5 min
Schneider Electric’s $4.4bn Acquisition of AVEVA
By Sonia Andrzejuk, Argyro Charizona, Vlad Marcu, and Mikolaj Borowiak (Bocconi), Ross Barrett, Tigran Minasian, Jian Wee Soh, and...
- Nov 17
- 6 min
Elon Musk’s $44bn Acquisition of Twitter
By Adil Amlaiky and Anish Umasuthan (McGill University), Ayushman Mukherjee, Junseok Choi, Matthew Liu and Divy Dayal (University of...
- Oct 19
- 5 min
Amazon’s $3.9bn Acquisition of One Medical
By Jack Lee, Heather Leung and Terry Au-Yeung (HKUST), Sonia Andrzejuk, Argyro Charizona and Vlad Marcu (Bocconi) Photo: Hyttalo Souza...
- Oct 11
- 5 min
Adobe’s $20bn Acquisition of Figma
By Ayushman Mukherjee, Junseok Choi, Matthew Liu, Amar Mian (Cambridge), Friedrich von Storch, Enrique Perez-Hernandez, Ties Oudmaijer...
- May 19
- 5 min
Thoma Bravo’s $6.9bn Acquisition of SailPoint
By Felix Hooper, Gonzalo Riera-Ripoll, Rafi Glass, Yana Zharkova (Durham University), Haozhe (James) Huang, Friedrich von Storch, Yujia...
- May 3
- 3 min
Vista Capital Partners’ $16.5bn Acquisition of Citrix Systems
By Marvin Stenersen (Stockholm School of Economics) Photo: Lukas Blazek (Unsplash) Introduction 2021 was a big year for mergers in the...
- Apr 16
- 4 min
Google’s $5.4bn Acquisition of Mandiant
By Haozhe (James) Huang , Friedrich von Storch and Yujia Bao (IE Business School), Mikail Boudouda and Florent Onguen (Grenoble École de...
- Mar 15
- 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,...
- Feb 28
- 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...
- Feb 16
- 4 min
Delivery Hero’s €2.3bn Acquisition of Glovo
By Yair Trachtenberg, Ismael Fathy Martínez, Nikita Bezverkhniy, Markus Walter, and Julia Donato (ESADE), Luc Roberts, Ben Schwarzmann,...
- Feb 3
- 5 min
Take-Two’s $12.7bn Acquisition of Zynga
By Justin Leung and Ryan Chan (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Knut Örnéus, Anna Muižniece and Jacob Andersson...
- Feb 3
- 4 min
Microsoft’s $69bn Acquisition of Activision Blizzard
By Nancy Huang (University of Melbourne) and Tudor Popescu, Bella Chen, Devashree Goenka, Jaden Wu, and Max Averbach (UChicago) Photo:...
- Feb 2
- 4 min
Qualcomm’s $4.5bn Acquisition of Veoneer
By Haozhe (James) Huang , Friedrich von Storch, Yujia Bao (IE Business School), Olivier Baverez, Dorian Song, Théo Leleup (HEC) Photo:...
- Jan 26
- 4 min
Stryker’s $3.09bn Acquisition of Vocera Communications
By Matilda Oculy, Aadit Jain, András Szabó, and Deimantė Chailenko (Manchester), Joshua Ooi, Ayushman Nath, Danissa Wan, Jack Wu, and...
- Jan 14
- 4 min
Zendesk’s $4 bn Acquisition of Momentive
By Akhil Vajjhala and Siddharth Tripurani (NYU), and Anish Umasuthan (McGill) Photo: Path Digital (Unsplash) Overview of the deal...
- Dec 10, 2021
- 5 min
DoorDash’s $8.1bn Acquisition of Wolt
By Tudor Popescu, Bella Chen, Devashree Goenka and Max Averbach (University of Chicago), Knut Örnéus, Anna Muižniece and Jacob Andersson...
- Nov 14, 2021
- 5 min
Parker Hannifin’s £6.3B Takeover of Meggitt
By Shivam Bapu, Daniel Winsor, Pristie Sharma, Tim Li, and Mohammed Safayat (UCL), Joshua Ooi, Danissa Wan, Jack Wu, Samuel Atlass, and...
- Oct 27, 2021
- 5 min
Polestar's $20bn SPAC Merger with Gores Guggenheim
By Haozhe (James) Huang, Friedrich von Storch, Yujia Bao (IE Business School) Photo: Redcharlie (Unsplash) Overview of the deal Acquirer:...
- Oct 5, 2021
- 5 min
Zoom’s $14.7bn Acquisition of Five9
By James Muse, Omar Santos, Sean Salamante (Columbia University), Martín Palomar GA, Leo Clement, Olivier Baverez (HEC Paris) Photo:...
- Sep 3, 2021
- 3 min
Cobham’s £2.6B Acquisition of Ultra Electronics
By Luc Roberts, Ratish Singh, Hirishika Rajasekaran, Benjamin Schwarzmann and Priyanshu Srivastava (University of Warwick) Photo: Andre...
- Jul 14, 2021
- 4 min
HP Enterprise’s $374m Acquisition of Zerto
By Athean Myat, Suchritha Patlolla, Josh Figueoroa, and Chris Goranov (Cornell University) Photo: Mika Baumeister (Unsplash) Overview of...
- May 15, 2021
- 5 min
Rogers’ $16bn Acquisition of Shaw
By Lindsay Dempsey, Adil Amlaiky, Anish Umasuthan, Greta Horn, Ève Bouffard, Blake Dal Santo (McGill University), Ho Hai Ivan Chung,...
- May 10, 2021
- 4 min
Wipro’s $117 million Acquisition of Ampion
By Demi Akinjide, Saihejpal Ailwadhi, Ben Fobel, Zac Greenberg and Will Sergent (University of Bristol) and Obielumani Amudo, Mayi...
- May 4, 2021
- 5 min
Woven Planet’s $550mn Acquisition of Lyft Level 5
By AJ Tomas (University of Chicago), Alexis Bernet, André Assouline, Martín Palomar, Kévin Insixiengmay, Olivier Baverez (HEC Paris)...
- Apr 29, 2021
- 4 min
Panasonic’s $7.1bn Acquisition of Blue Yonder
By Greis Geata, Riccardo Colombo, Lorenzo Mirone and Federico de Rosa (Bocconi University), Alexander Bergmüller, Fritz von Storch, Huang...
- Apr 29, 2021
- 4 min
Microsoft’s $20bn Acquisition of Nuance
By Nathan Walemba (University of Oxford), Anthony Borgese, Susan Xiao, Claire Zhong, Jessica Pei, Zen Suzuki and Mustafa Bayramli...
- Apr 12, 2021
- 5 min
Qell Acquisition Corp’s $3.3bn Acquisition of Lilium
By James Muse, Omar Santos, Sean Salamante (Columbia University), Lolade Aluko, Jonathan Fuchs, Eden Yang (London School of Economics)...
- Mar 23, 2021
- 4 min
Square’s Acquisition of Tidal
By Lorenzo Mirone, Riccardo Colombo, Federico de Rosa (Bocconi University) and Aman Singla, Akhil Vajjhala, Siddharth Tripurani (New York...
- Mar 23, 2021
- 4 min
Okta’s $6.5bn Acquisition of Auth0
By Nathan Walemba (University of Oxford), Roshni Padhi (Stanford University) Photo: Sigmund (Unsplash) Overview of the deal Acquirer:...
- Mar 18, 2021
- 4 min
Rocket Lab $4.1bn Merger with Vector Capital’s SPAC
By Rahul Mepani, Athean Myat, Suchritha Patlolla, Sung Cho, Kevin Hwang, Josh Figueoroa (Cornell University) and Aman Singla, Kritika and...
- Mar 9, 2021
- 5 min
Churchill Capital IV’s $24bn Acquisition of Lucid Motors
By James Muse, Omar Santos, Sean Salamante (Columbia University), Lindsay Dempsey, Adil Amlaiky, Anish Umasuthan, Blake Dal Santo, Greta...
- Feb 22, 2021
- 4 min
Electronic Arts’ $2.4 bn Acquisition of Glu Mobile
By Lucy Chen (University of Melbourne) and Sally Marshall, Max Raso, Valeriya Shreyber (Imperial College London) Photo: SCREEN POST...
- Feb 16, 2021
- 4 min
Uber's $1.1bn acquisition of Drizly
By AJ Tomas (University of Chicago) and Demi Akinjide, Saihejpal Ailwadhi, Ben Fobel, Zac greenberg and Will Sergent (University of...
- 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,...