After twelve new deals were announced during the prior two weeks, merger activity ground to a halt last week with no new deals announced. Oracle completed its massive $24.3 billion deal for healthcare software company Cerner and in a trend we have been seeing for several weeks, yet another SPAC business combination fell apart. There was plenty of activity in current deals that are yet to consummated, including Thoma Bravo negotiating a slightly lower price (a 3.41% cut) for Anaplan (PLAN), additional saber rattling between Elon Musk and Twitter (TWTR) where the company agreed to give Mr. Musk unrestricted access to its data through its “firehose” API and JetBlue (JBLU) sweeting its offer for Spirit (SAVE).
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The Battle for Spirit Airlines (SAVE)
We wrote the following in our Merger Arbitrage post regarding Frontier Group’s (ULCC) acquisition of Spirit Airlines (SAVE).