Happy tax day and welcome to the latest edition of Merger Arbitrage Mondays. Merger activity increased last week with four new deals announced and two pending deals closing.
We made a mistake last week when we indicated that the acquisition of Versum Materials (VSM) by Entegris (ENTG) closed. As some diligent readers pointed out immediately after we published the post last week, Merck KGaA (MKGAF) made a hostile bid of $53/share for Versum Materials, which was above its previous bid of $48/share and Versum deemed the new bid a superior proposal. Versum abandoned its merger