Merger Arbitrage Mondays – April 12, 2010

  • April 12, 2010

We had another active week on the mergers and acquisitions front with four new deals announced and one deal that closed. There were also rumors about further consolidation in the airline industry through a merger of United Airlines (UAUA) and US Airways (LCC). The deal that closed was the acquisition of Comsys IT Partners (CITP) by Manpower (MAN).

The four new deals announced include the acquisition of Arena Resources (ARD) by SandRidge Energy (SD) for $39 per share in a stock plus cash deal, the acquisition of Symyx Technologies (SMMX) by Accelrys (ACCL) for $5.55 per share in an all stock transaction, the acquisition of National Dentex (NADX) by GDC holdings for $17/share in an all cash deal and the acquisition of Boots & Coots (WEL) by Halliburton (HAL) for $3/share in a stock plus cash deal. Since the Boots & Coots acquisition was announced after market close on Friday, the spread for the deal shows up as 27.66% in the table below.

 SymbolAnnounced DateAcquiring CompanyClosing ValueClosing PriceLast PriceClosing DateProfitAnnu. Profit
+WEL4/9/2010Halliburton Company$240 million32.359/30/201027.66%60.09%
+ADG1/19/2010Chemring Group Plc$59 million7.256.174/19/201017.50%912.71%
+AYE2/11/2010FirstEnergy$8.5 billion26.3923.253/31/201113.51%14.12%
+SSE2/23/2010Naugatuck Valley Financial Corp$19.5 million7.256.698/16/20108.37%24.64%
+STBK3/18/2010Roma Financial Corp$14.7 million2.522.35018/16/20107.23%21.28%
+SWWC3/3/2010Institutional Investors$275 million1110.495/17/20104.86%50.70%
+ARD4/4/2010SandRidge Energy Inc.$1.6 billion3937.619/30/20103.70%8.03%
+PINN2/24/2010Investor Group lead by Scotia Waterous (USA)$11 million0.340.32855/17/20103.50%36.51%
+BNE2/24/2010RR Donnelley$481 million11.511.139/30/20103.32%7.22%
+SII2/19/2010Schlumberger$7.5 billion46.3444.859/30/20103.32%7.22%
+ORCD3/16/2010eMusic$12.77 million2.051.9998/16/20102.55%7.51%
+MAM3/12/2010Emera Inc.$75.7 million4544.0412/31/20102.18%3.07%
+SKIL2/12/2010consortium of private equity funds$1.2 billion11.2511.135/31/20101.08%8.03%
+MIL3/1/2010Merck$6 billion107105.989/30/20100.96%2.09%
+RISK3/1/2010MSCI$1.55 billion22.9522.747/16/20100.92%3.59%
+IUSA3/8/2010CCMP$460 million87.936/30/20100.88%4.13%
+PRPX2/17/2010L.B. Foster Co.$112 million11.7111.616/30/20100.86%4.03%
+RBI3/15/2010affiliate of Oncap Management Partners L.P. 13.5513.448/16/100.82%2.41%
+PIII2/18/2010Lineage$16.7 million5.865.8235/17/20100.64%6.63%
+TRA3/12/2010CF Industries Holdings, Inc.$4.7 billion4645.724/12/20100.61%222.65%
+BELM3/29/2010Avnet$252 million76.966/30/20100.57%2.69%
+CXG3/22/2010Consol Energy Inc.$363 million38.2538.085/5/20100.45%7.08%
+NADX4/5/2010GDC Holdings Inc.$100 million1716.946/30/20100.35%1.66%
+FACT3/9/2010Abbot$450 million27275/17/20100.00%0.00%
+WEDC3/30/2010Microsemi Corporation$100 million77.026/27/2010-0.28%-1.39%
+RCNI3/5/2010Abry$1.2 billion1515.079/30/2010-0.46%-1.01%
+NGA4/1/2010AZZ Inc.$125.6 million7.57.548/31/2010-0.53%-1.39%
+TWLL3/22/2010Intersil Corp.$400 million18.518.615/17/2010-0.59%-6.16%
+CFL1/18/2010Tyco International$2.9 billion42.542.86/26/2010-0.70%-3.46%
+LGN1/22/2010Lone Star Funds$270 million2.52.525/17/2010-0.79%-8.28%
+TUTR3/26/2010Thoma Brava$141 million5.65.657/31/2010-0.88%-2.96%
+ZNT2/18/2010Fairfax Financial Holdings$I.4 billion3838.345/17/2010-0.89%-9.25%
+CHRD3/15/2010Pegasystems$161.5 million55.055/17/2010-0.99%-10.33%
+SMMX4/5/2010Accelrys Inc.$186 million5.555.616/30/2010-1.07%-5.00%
+BWY3/29/2010Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC ("MDP")$915 million2020.318/16/2010-1.53%-4.49%
+CKR3/1/2010Thomas H. Lee$928 million11.0512.115/17/2010-8.75%-91.28%
+CCE2/25/2010The Coca-Cola Company$12.3 billion 28.2610/1/2010-100.00%-215.98%