Morgan Stanley

Nov 21, 2024

Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners’ $8.4bn Acquisition of Smartsheet

By Edward Mazin (UCLA), Adam Bernabeu, Mahaut Bonnet de Roovere and Malo Inizan (HEC Paris) Photo: Ahmer Kalam (Unsplash) Overview of...

Nov 21, 2024

TPG and GIC’s $7.1bn joint acquisition of Techem

By George Luo, Keshi Edirisinghe, Nika Karimi Seffat, Terry Zhang (University of British Columbia), Edoardo Tosti, Alina Shaikh,...

Nov 19, 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...

Aug 18, 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...

Jul 6, 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...

Feb 24, 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 22, 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,...

Jan 9, 2024

Mars’ £534mn Acquisition of Hotel Chocolat

By Argyro Charizona, Mikolaj Borowiak, Angelo Passaro, Rares Ionescu, Muhammad Adnan, Ruben van der Lubbe (Bocconi University) ; Matthew...

Nov 29, 2023

Healthpeak’s $2.64bn merger with Physicians Realty

By Varun Vinay Iyengar, Rui Lee and Ardia Daniswara (King’s College London) ; Melvin Bergeret, Arthur Delfour, Axel Nkam and Victor Zheng...

Nov 13, 2023

Birkenstock’s IPO

By Agastya Jain, Edward Mazin, Lars Birkeland, Luca Cuffe (UCLA) & Samuel Smith, James Chan, Yanxi Liu, Amarthya Chandrappa (University...

Nov 9, 2023

Chevron's $53bn acquisition of Hess

By Alina Shaikh, Alexander Svanidze, Carlo Leopardi, Edoardo Tosto di Valminuta, Matthew Gurevich and Tommaso Arona (Boston University) &...

Nov 3, 2023

Exxon Mobil’s $59.5 bn Acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resource

By Jian Wee Soh, Yagnesh Patel, Aaren Tan, Arfred Garcia, Bharath Sivakumar, Gulled Bulhan (Imperial College London), and Heather Leung,...

Oct 11, 2023

Cisco’s $28bn Acquisition of Splunk

By Edward Mazin, Luca Cuffe, Agastya Jain, Lars Birkeland (UCLA), Mikołaj Borowiak, and Argyro Charizona (Università Bocconi) Photo: adi...

May 3, 2023

Merck’s $10.8bn Acquisition of Prometheus Biosciences

By Athean Myat, Coby Lai, Michelle Liu, Carden Olsson and Angelina Gart (Cornell University) Photo: Sangharsh Lohakare (Unsplash)...

Apr 29, 2023

L’Oréal’s $2.53bn Acquisition of Aesop

By Xunliang Huang (University of Melbourne), Albert Ibekwe, Junqi Wang and Sean Millar (University of St Andrews) Photo: the blowup...

Apr 21, 2023

UBS’s $3.3bn Acquisition of Credit Suisse

By Ayushman Mukherjee, Divy Dayal, and Matthew Liu (University of Cambridge), Gonzalo Riera-Ripoll, Felix Hooper and Rafi Glass (Durham...

Apr 19, 2023

Silver Lake’s $12.5bn Acquisition of Qualtrics

By Friedrich von Storch, Enrique Pérez-Hernández and Ties Oudmayer (IE University), Ritu Joseph and Anusha Kaushik (London Business...

Apr 12, 2023

Blackstone’s $4.6bn Acquisition of Cvent

By Mikolaj Borowiak, Argiro Charizona, Sonia Andrzejuk, Vlad Marcu (Bocconi), Gabriela Lenerte, Carl-Gabriel Jakobsson (Stockholm School...

Mar 21, 2023

Thoma Bravo’s $1.3bn Acquisition of Magnet Forensics

By Abdallah Zakaria, Filip Stoilov and Matilda Oculy (The University of Manchester), Friedrich von Storch, Enrique Pérez-Hernández and...

Feb 8, 2023

Pfizer’s $5.4bn Acquisition of Global Blood Therapeutics

By Matilda Oculy and Filip Stoilov (The University of Manchester), Ritu Joseph (London Business School) Photo: CDC (Unsplash) Overview of...

Jan 9, 2023

Advent International’s $6.4bn Acquisition of Maxar Technologies

By Marvin Stenersen and Gabriela Lenerte (Stockholm School of Economics), Friedrich von Storch, Enrique Pérez-Hernández and Ties Oudmayer...

Jan 6, 2023

Amgen’s $28bn Acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics

By Sameer Jain, Ishan Date and Michael Akullo (Wharton School), Fuh Zhe Yi, Ahaan Roychowdhury and Harold Parra Holder (University...

Dec 27, 2022

Mobileye’s $17bn IPO

By Tigran Minasian, Ross Barrett, Kai Ye and Oscar Silva (Imperial College London), Adil Amlaiky (McGill University) Photo: Samuele...

Dec 5, 2022

KKR and GIP’s Acquisition of Vantage Towers

By Matilda Oculy, Filip Stoilov and Deimante Chailenko (The University of Manchester), Pierre Six, Mathilde Heibig, Jingying Liu and...

Nov 27, 2022

Broadcom’s $61bn Acquisition of VMware

By Xunliang Huang (University of Melbourne), Sameer Jain and Micheal Akullo (Wharton School) Photo: Sigmund (Unsplash) Overview of the...

Nov 17, 2022

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...

Nov 13, 2022

Thoma Bravo’s $1.3bn Acquisition of UserTesting

By Mohammad Faisal Zia, Samuel Smith, and Rhodie Ferrer (University of Warwick), and Yair Trachtenberg, Nikita Bezverkhniy, Markus...

Oct 24, 2022

Capricorn to merge with NewMed to form MENA gas and energy champion for $7.2 bn

By Anna Muizniece, Marvin Stenersen, Gabriela Lenerte (Stockholm School of Economics), Tigran Minasian, Ross Barrett, Yagnesh Patel, Jian...

Oct 19, 2022

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...