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Bell Canada Enterprises’ (BCE) $3.65bn Acquisition of Ziply Fiber

By: Maximilien Kender, Jules Bedrossian, Amin Ouamar and Malo Inizan (HEC Paris); Amya Hillis, Janira Martinez, Zin Nas, Irene Souny...

Feb 4

Vocus Group’s $3.5bn Acquisition of TPG Telecom

By Kevin Xu, Cooper Thompson, Nancy Huang, Ngoc Nguyen, Oliver Chen (University of Melbourne), Douglas Dahlén, Elliot Christophers, Jens...

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...

Sep 5, 2024

Aon’s $13 bn acquisition of NFP

By Pierre Caye (McGill University), Jonathan Lui, Erica Chan, Hunter Pang, Lasheeka Ramesh (London School of Economics) Photo: NASA...

Jun 4, 2024

IBM’s $6.4bn Acquisition of HashiCorp

By Enrique Perez-Hernandez, Tarvo Simons, Taha Yassine, Michael Joachim ten Eicken, and Juan Pelaez (IE University), Adam Bernabeu,...

May 28, 2024

Swisscom’s €8bn Acquisition of Vodafone Italia

By Carlo Leopardi, Tommaso Arona, Alina Shaikh, Edoardo Tosti, and Alexander Svanidze (Boston University), Ahaan Roychowdhury, Diti Shah,...

Apr 2, 2024

VIAVI Solutions’ £1.0 bn Acquisition of Spirent Communications

By Rhys Meredith, Salah Baaziz, Aaryan Upadhyay and Dominic Zhu (University of Bristol) and Leo Fridjhon, Xinyue Zhang, Li Hanchen,...

Mar 22, 2024

Renesas’s $5.8bn Acquisition of Altium

By Adam Bernabeu, Malo Inizan and Mahaut Bonnet de Roovere (HEC Paris) Kush Mahawar, Alina Vendina and Helena Bhattacharya (Oxford...

Feb 13, 2024

Synopsys’ $35bn Acquisition of Ansys

By Adam Bernabeu, Malo Inizan and Mahaut Bonnet de Roovere (HEC Paris) ; Leo Luke Fridjhon, Xinyue Zhang, Hanchen Li and Abraham...

Feb 6, 2024

HPE’s $14bn Acquisition of Juniper Networks

By Kayley Portelli, William Hodgson, Jingheng Xu, Nancy Huang (University of Melbourne) ; Nathaniel Baker, Alyssa Serebrenik, Samuel...

Jan 30, 2024

Six Flags and Cedar Fair's $8 Billion Merger

By Erica Chan, Hunter Pang, Jonathan Liu, Lasheeka Ramesh (LSE). In collaboration with Alexandre Megrelis, Jules Donzelot, Loïc Meunier,...

Dec 5, 2023

Blackstone’s $2.5bn Acquisition of Civica

By Ana Almeida, Caroline Brandvold, Morrison Dobere, Angelina Gart, Nick Laterza, and Aanjay Patel (Cornell University); Aviral Jain,...

Nov 20, 2023

ARM's IPO

By Mathis Grandchamp, Loïc Meunier, Alexandre Megrelis, Jules Donzelot, Giuliana Vadacchino and Blake Dal Santo (McGill University)....

Nov 7, 2023

Thoma Bravo’s $8 bn Acquisition of Coupa Software (updated)

By Atin Narain, Nathaniel Mathew, Omar Ali, Shreyas Mehta, Devina Aggarwal (Yale University), Aditi Singh, Ben Jackson, Rhys Meredith,...

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...

Apr 24, 2023

Hipgnosis Songs Capital’s $100mn Acquisition of Justin Timberlake’s Music Catalogue

By Jack Lee, Heather Leung, and Jeremia Bryan Darmadi (HKUST), Nikitas Kitsantas, Carlotta Nardello (ESADE) Photo: Priscilla Du Preez...

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 17, 2023

NRG Energy’s $2.8bn Acquisition of Vivint Smart Home

By Felix Hooper, Gonzalo Riera-Ripoll, Rafi Glass and Yana Zharkova (Durham University) and Nishil Lakhani, Jack McGing, Frangiskos...

Jan 30, 2023

Orange’s €18.6bn Merger with MásMóvil

By Kayla Ho, Michele Silvestri and Jia Jian Gan (LSE), Sonia Andrzejuk, Argyro Charizona, Mikołaj Borowiak and Vlad Marcu (Bocconi)...

Jan 23, 2023

Oracle’s $28bn Acquisition of Cerner Corporation

By Jian Wee Soh, Oscar Silver, Kai Ye, Tigran Minasian, Ross Barrett and Yagnesh Patel, (Imperial College London), Mathilde Heibig,...

Jan 19, 2023

Todd Boehly’s £4.25bn Acquisition of Chelsea FC

By Samuel Smith, Rhodie Lianne Ferrer, Deepankumar Sakthive and Amarthya Chandrappa (University of Warwick), Adil Amlaiky, Juan Bátiz,...

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...

Dec 30, 2022

Thoma Bravo’s $8bn Acquisition of Coupa Software

By Mohammad Faisal Zia, Priyanshu Srivastava, Deepankumar Sakthivel and Amarthya Chandrappa (University of Warwick), Pierre Six, Mathilde...

Dec 22, 2022

Binance’s Acquisition of Sakura Exchange BitCoin

By Jack Lee, Ryan Chan, Heather Leung, Victor Leung (HKUST) and Ritu Joseph (London Business School) Photo: Kanchanara (Unsplash)...

Dec 15, 2022

Grindr’s $2.1bn IPO via SPAC

By Nishil Lakhani, Jack McGing, Dhruv Kotecha and Frangiskos Kapatos (University of Nottingham) and Sonia Andrzejuk, Mikołaj Borowiak,...

Dec 10, 2022

Eutelsat’s $3.4bn merger with OneWeb

By Prerak Goel (LSE) Photo: NASA (Unsplash) Overview of the deal Acquirer: Eutelsat Target: OneWeb Total Transaction Size: $3.4bn Closed...

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 24, 2022

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...

Nov 21, 2022

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, 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...

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...

Oct 11, 2022

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, 2022

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, 2022

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...