SJRWF News and Press, Shaw Communications Inc From 11/15/21

McAfee to be acquired by an investor group comprised of Advent, Permira, Crosspoint Capital, CPP Investments, GIC, and ADIA for $14 billion. On November 5, 2021, Bloomberg reported that McAfee was in advanced talks to go private. CorePoint Lodging to be acquired by Highg...

Atlas Holdings acquires R.R. Donnelley & Sons at a 29.1%. Chatham Asset Management offered to acquire R.R. Donnelley a range of $9.00 to 9.50 per share in cash. The go shop period is very short and if the company's management does not engage with Chatham, shareholders would en...

Potential deal in the works, Momentive Global to be acquired by Zendesk. Zendesk, Momentive stocks fell after the deal was announced. Zendesk investors are clearly not happy with this deal and the stock received multiple downgrades after the deal was announced. For further d...

Potential deal in the works Aspen Technology materializes. Two deals with Contingent Value Rights announced last week. Navios Maritime Partners completed the acquisition of Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation. For further details see: Merger Arbitrage Mondays: Emerso...

Qualcomm and SSW Partners outbid Magna to buy Veoneer. Veoneer to pay a termination fee of $110 million to Magna. Meredith Corporation acquired by IAC/InterActiveCorp and Gray Television. For further details see: Merger Arbitrage Mondays - Qualcomm And SSW Partners Win T...

The portfolio gained 3.51% in the third quarter 2021 and the performance YTD increased to 81.19%. The portfolio outperformed the German DAX (+11.26%) and the MSCI World Index (+12.37%) in 2021. My best performers of Q3 were Gazprom (+38.1%) again, freenet (+13.5%), and Bank of Chi...

The Five9 - Zoom deal takes a turn for the worse. The spread on the Five9 deal drops further into negative territory. Tencent's acquisition of Sogou finally goes through almost a year after announcement. For further details see: Merger Arbitrage Mondays: Five9 Investors ...

Kansas City Southern leaves Canadian National Railway at the altar. Goldman Sachs Group uses its stock to acquire GreenSky for $2.24 billion by giving GreenSky shareholders 0.03 shares of Goldman Sachs. Veoneer receives an updated non-binding proposal from Qualcomm. For...

Sanofi makes a second purchase just six weeks after its $2 billion deal for Translate Bio. Potential deal in the works, Columbia Property Trust comes to fruition. Macquarie Infrastructure Partners completes the acquisition of Cincinnati Bell. For further details see: Mer...

Welbilt receives a second more lucrative offer from the Ali Group that is well above the current all-stock deal with Middleby. Regulatory agencies flex their muscles with China’s antitrust regulator blocking Tencent Holdings’ plan to merge Huya and DouYu. EU approves...