Posts tagged: Macquarie
Thursday, 28 September 2023, 12:02 pm
Little old Betaville reads everyday in the newspaper business sections how there has been a drop off in dealmaking but it does seem to quite tally with whats happening on the ground in the London market.
Today, for example, Macquarie - the Australian infrastructure investor - has just announced it wants to buy London-listed waste management company Renewi for 775p a share. Below is a link to the press release:..
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Wednesday, 8 March 2023, 4:28 pm
Some curious comments have emerged from down under about the Macquarie - M&G takeover situation.
"There are so many speculated transactions. So we wait and talk about them once they are actually done."
That's what the boss of Macquarie, Shemara Wikramanayake, said at the Australian Financial Review Business Summit in Sydney yesterday...
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Thursday, 2 March 2023, 10:35 am
There has been a somewhat muted response this morning to Mark, "The Kleinmanator", Kleinman's scoop about Macquarie weighing an offer for FTSE 100-listed fund manager M&G.
Below is a link to the Mark's scoop, which contains some strong detail, including the fact that Macquarie had appointed advisers from Morgan Stanley to work on the deal for M&G...
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Wednesday, 1 March 2023, 7:01 pm
Mark "The Kleinmanator" Kleinman of Sky News just popped up with a corking story about a potential takeover of M&G, the FTSE 250-listed fund manager.
According to Kleinman (a former colleague on The Daily Telegraph), Australian banking giant Macquarie is weighing a £5 billion plus bid for for M&G...
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Monday, 22 June 2020, 5:44 pm
Does anybody else think yesterday's business splash in the The Sunday Telegraph about the Public Investment Fund accumulating a sizeable shareholding in BT Group is connected to the FT's scoop last month about Macquarie holding talks with the FTSE 100-listed telecoms giant about buying a stake in Openreach?..
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Friday, 15 May 2020, 10:00 am
Last night's scoop from the FT about BT selling Opeanreach to Macquarie is getting a serious poo-pooing this morning from analysts, hacks and spinners.
Indeed, Jim "Armo" Armitage, City editor of the Evening Standard, pisses on the story from a high height. Below is a link to his column and a follow up "EXCLUSIVE" containing a "denial" in a leaked memo to Opeanreach staff:..
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Thursday, 14 May 2020, 7:15 pm
The Pink 'Un has just published a rather good tale about BT Group starting talks about a sale of Openreach as part of a deal that would value the business at up to £22 billion...
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Wednesday, 28 November 2018, 8:45 am
David Wighton, City Editor at Financial News, landed a great scoop on Monday about Macquarie trying to buy Liberum, one of the City of London's mid tier stockbrokers. Below is a the link:
https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/macquarie-in-talks-to-buy-liberum-20181126..
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Betaville IntelligenceFriday, 23 November 2018, 10:29 pm
The Irish punters that invested in care home giant Barchester Healthcare could be about make another from the fortune from the care home company.
Betaville understands that several large American companies, including listed real estate investment trust Welltower Inc, have shown an interest in the business, whose owners have appointed JP Morgan to find a buyer...
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Thursday, 8 December 2016, 8:15 am
So, coming up with a silly name to differentiate your consortium from the other Chinese bidders clearly does work. This morning it was announced the mega consortium, which called itself (in secret) the "Saxon Infrastructure Distribution Company", has won the £13 billion National Grid gas distribution auction...
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