[Ipg-smz] Asymmetrical Mergers

[Perlow, Jason]

Good example

On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 4:26 PM Steve Wexler <
stevewexler.wordslingers at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/the-leveraged-buyout-industry-is-starting-to-eat-itself/2019/08/06/3a01e192-b843-11e9-8e83-4e6687e99814_story.html
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 3:42 PM Dan Rosenbaum via Ipg-smz <
>> ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> d
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>>> *Cc: *Jason Perlow <jperlow at gmail.com>
>>> *Subject: *[Ipg-smz] Asymmetrical Mergers
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I am going by this list and I cannot find any that are comparable.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_mergers_and_acquisitions
>>>
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