[Ipg-smz] Asymmetrical Mergers

[Steve Wexler]

It wasn't a 10x acquisition, but Dell-EMC pushed the boundaries at least a
little bit for the IT industry.

On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 at 16:23, Perlow, Jason via Ipg-smz <
ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:

> Doesn't look great for the future of these things either
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> https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/the-leveraged-buyout-industry-is-starting-to-eat-itself/2019/08/06/3a01e192-b843-11e9-8e83-4e6687e99814_story.html
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> On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 3:42 PM Dan Rosenbaum via Ipg-smz <
> ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:
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>> It sounds to me like you’re describing a classic leveraged buyout, where
>> a smaller company uses a bigger company’s assets or cash to buy it. The
>> classic case was RJR Nabisco.
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>> *From: *Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> on behalf of "Perlow,
>> Jason via Ipg-smz" <ipg-smz at netpress.org>
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>> *Date: *Tuesday, October 22, 2019 at 3:28 PM
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>> *Cc: *Jason Perlow <jperlow at gmail.com>
>> *Subject: *[Ipg-smz] Asymmetrical Mergers
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>> Does anyone know, historically, of a merger between two companies where
>> the valuation was highly asymmetrical? Such as when you might have a
>> company that is worth $1000B, but wants to merge with a company that is
>> worth $100B? They don't have the assets to buy it outright, but it would be
>> a beneficial marriage.
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>> I am going by this list and I cannot find any that are comparable.
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>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_mergers_and_acquisitions
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