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Merger Arbitrage Mondays – Condor Hospitality Terminates Merger Agreement With NHT Operating Partnership

  • September 21, 2020

Merger activity slowed down last week with no new deals announced, one completed active deal and one deal terminated.

Two potential deals were announced last week.

  1. According to Bloomberg, UBS Group (UBS) Chairman Axel Weber has been studying the feasibility of a mega-merger with rival Credit Suisse Group (CS) as part of a regular thought-exercise on future strategic options.
  2. 51job (JOBS) announced that its Board of Directors has received a preliminary non-binding proposal letter from DCP Capital Partners to acquire all of the outstanding common shares of the company for $79.05 in cash per common share.

Due to failure of NHT’s operating partnership to consummate the acquisition and for material breaches of the merger agreement, Condor Hospitality Trust (CDOR) decided to terminate its merger agreement with NHT Operating Partnership. The Company is entitled to receive a termination fee of $11.925 million within five business days of its termination of the merger agreement.

You can find all the active deals listed below in our Merger Arbitrage Tool (MAT) that automatically updates itself during market hours.

There were two new deals announced in the Deals in the Works section last week.

Weekly Spread Changes:

The table below shows weekly spread changes between September 11, 2020, and September 18, 2020.

SymbolQuoteAcquiring
Company
Acquiring
Company Quote
Current
Spread
Last Week
Spread
Spread Change
Weekly
Deal
Type
GNW3.28China Oceanwide Holdings Group Co., Ltd. (N/A)65.55%46.36%19.19%All Cash
TIF116.26LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE (LVMUY)98.816.12%0.00%16.12%All Cash
GRUB69.25Just Eat Takeaway.com N.V. (TKAYY)10.8855.47%2.67%2.80%All Stock
ONDK1.57Enova International, Inc. (ENVA)16.554.62%2.02%2.60%Cash Plus Stock
MR4.52Southwestern Energy Company (SWN)2.451.12%-1.46%2.58%All Stock
GILT5.55Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (CMTL)15.4552.82%55.17%-2.35%Cash Plus Stock
CBMG18.7CBMG management (N/A)0.005.61%8.46%-2.85%All Cash
TAT0.2465TAT Holdco LLC and TAT Merger Sub LLC (N/A)0.00-47.26%-42.09%-5.17%All Cash
BREW16.47Anheuser-Busch (N/A)0.18%5.63%-5.45%All Cash
SUNW0.84The Peck Company Holdings, Inc. (PECK)3.35-26.15%-18.44%-7.71%All Stock

Deal Statistics:

Total Number of Deals Closed in 202095
Total Number of Deals Not Completed in 202015
Total Number of Pending Deals
Cash Deals30
Stock Deals14
Stock & Cash Deals4
Special Conditions3
Total Number of Pending Deals51
Aggregate Deal Consideration$661.28 billion

Deal Updates:

  1. September 14, 2020: According to Reuters, Israel’s Petroleum Council gave its approval for Chevron (CVX) to take over Noble Energy’s (NBL) stakes in Israeli natural gas fields.
  2. On September 15, 2020, Momenta Pharmaceuticals (MNTA) announced the expiration of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (“HSR”), in connection with the all-cash tender offer by Vigor Sub, a wholly owned subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson (JNJ).
  3. On September 16, 2020, Livongo (LVGO) and Teladoc Health (TDOC) announced that the Special Meeting of stockholders is scheduled to take place virtually on October 29, 2020.
  4. On September 18, 2020, Bitauto Holdings Limited (BITA) announced that it has called an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders to be held on October 23, 2020.
  5. On September 16, 2020, Genworth Financial (GNW) announced that while it continues to work with China Oceanwide Holdings Group toward closing the merger transaction with Oceanwide by September 30, 2020, Genworth has scheduled its 2020 Annual Meeting in order to comply with the New York Stock Exchange listing standards.
  6. September 18, 2020: According to Reuters, LVMH said that it had submitted its troubled takeover of Tiffany (TIF), which is now at the centre of a legal dispute between the two groups, for EU approval as it seeks to counter accusations that it deliberately stalled antitrust proceedings.
  7. September 19, 2020: According to Reuters, the U.S. Justice Department said approved Anheuser-Busch’s plan to buy the shares of Craft Brew Alliance (BREW) that it does not already own.

Closed Deals:

  1. The acquisition of 58.com (WUBA) by Quantum Bloom Group on September 18, 2020. It took 95 days for this deal to be completed.

Terminated Deals: 

  1. On September 18, 2020, Condor Hospitality Trust (CDOR) announced that it has terminated its merger agreement with NHT Operating Partnership. The Company terminated the merger agreement due to failure of NHT’s operating partnership to consummate the acquisition of the Company and for material breaches of the merger agreement by NHT’s operating partnership and its affiliates.

Top 10 deals with largest spreads:

SymbolAnnounced
Date
Acquiring
Company
Closing
Price
Last
Price
Closing
Date
ProfitAnnualized
Profit
GNW10/23/2016China Oceanwide Holdings Group Co., Ltd. (N/A)$5.43$3.280009/30/202065.55%2392.53%
GILT01/29/2020Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (CMTL)$8.48$5.5510/31/202152.82%47.49%
TIF11/25/2019LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE (LVMUY)$135.00$116.2612/31/202016.12%57.68%
FIT11/01/2019Google LLC (GOOG)$7.35$6.3712/31/202015.38%55.05%
MXIM07/13/2020Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI)$72.39$66.1406/30/20219.45%12.19%
WLTW03/09/2020Aon plc (AON)$217.08$205.3106/30/20215.73%7.39%
INWK07/16/2020HH Global Group Limited (N/A)$3.00$2.8412/31/20205.63%20.16%
CBMG08/12/2020CBMG management (N/A)$19.75$18.712/31/20205.61%20.09%
GRUB06/10/2020Just Eat Takeaway.com N.V. (TKAYY)$73.04$69.2506/30/20215.47%7.06%
ONDK07/28/2020Enova International, Inc. (ENVA)$1.64$1.5712/31/20204.62%16.55%

List of all pending deals:

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