On March 31 2015, Italian web-based clothier Yoox SpA agreed to purchase Net-a-Porter, the high-end fashion site controlled by Cie. Financière Richemont SA, in an all-stock deal representing an effort to strengthen their presence in the small-but-increasingly-competitive online… Continue reading
Spanish institution Banco Sabadell (SAB.MC) agrees to pay £1.7 bn for TSB (TSB.L), Britain’s seventh biggest lender with 631 branches and 4.3% market share, in one of the biggest cross-border banking deals since… Continue reading
July 2014 represented one of the most important turnaround points in the oil business in the last decade. An apparently trifling event as the reopening of the Libya’s ports and wells transformed significantly… Continue reading
Hitachi, a Japanese conglomerate, will pay €773 million ($850 million) for Finmeccanica’s 40% stake in Ansaldo STS: under Italian law, this type of operations requires a mandatory tender offer in order to be… Continue reading
The increased M&A activity within the Healthcare sector has not slowed down in 2015, after we saw a record volume of transactions in the previous year. After securing financing, Canada-based Valeant has won… Continue reading
On February 12, Expedia (Nasdaq: EXPE) announced it had entered into a definitive agreement under which it will acquire Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: OWW) including all of Orbitz’s brands (such as HotelClub, CheapTickets… Continue reading
Springleaf Holdings Inc. set to buy Citigroup Inc’s OneMain Financial Holdings for $4.25bn in cash, forming the largest subprime lender in the United States. Citigroup’s strategy to sell its non-core operations and focus… Continue reading
Competitiveness The TMT industry (in a broad sense) is becoming more and more complex: From the demand side, emerging markets are asking for new services to be provided and developed countries are asking… Continue reading
The Deal In September 2014, the Italian Government issued a decree regarding the privatization of the state owned company RAI Way S.p.A. (from now on, RWay). The decree came after the decision to… Continue reading
