Merger activity ground to a halt last week with no new deals announced, three deals closing and one deal called off. You can find all the active deals listed below in our Merger Arbitrage Tool (MAT) that automatically updates itself during market ...
Merger Arbitrage Mondays
Merger Arbitrage Mondays – Advent Attempts To Walk Away
Merger activity remained stuck in neutral last week with no new deals announced and no deals closing. We did have one deal enter into litigation and arbitrageurs are watching it closely to see if the courts can force the acquiring ...
Merger Arbitrage Mondays – A Large Number Of Rumored Deals But No Cigar
Merger activity sputtered to a stop again last week with no new deals announced and one deal closing. This is the fifth week this year with no new deals announced. There were however some potential deals that were announced last week. ...
Merger Arbitrage Mondays – Three New Deals, Four Completions And One Failed Deal
Merger activity increased last week with three new deals announced, four deals closing and one deal terminated. After a three week lull, merger activity picked up again with three new deals announced. The hard hit energy services industry saw the ...
Merger Arbitrage Mondays – Spread On The Taubman Centers Deal Narrows Significantly
Merger activity continued to remain lackluster last week with no new deals announced and four deals closing. There were only two new deals announced in the month of April, the lowest we have seen since we started tracking M&A data ...
Merger Arbitrage Mondays – Spread On The Taubman Centers Acquisition Exceeds 40%
Merger activity continued to remain lackluster last week with no new deals announced and one deal closing. This is the second time in a row no new deals were announced. FSB Bancorp (FSBC), Forescout Technologies (FSCT), IBERIABANK Corporation (IBKC) and The Stars Group ...
Merger Arbitrage Mondays – Another One Bites The Dust
Merger activity came to a halt last week with no new deals announced, four deals closing and one deal terminated. This is the second time in four weeks no new deals were announced. We wrote the following three weeks ago, ...
Merger Arbitrage Mondays – Cypress Semiconductor Receives Regulatory Approval In China
Merger activity increased last week with two new deals announced, one deal closing and one deal terminated. The increase in merger activity last week was not very significant as only two new deals were announced. The merger of Standard Diversified (SDI) into ...
Merger Arbitrage Mondays – Seven Deals Close But Spreads Remain Wide
Merger activity increased last week with one new deal announced and seven deals closing. At a time when more than 10 deals trade with spreads of over 30% and 23 trade with spreads of over 10%, it is encouraging to ...
Merger Arbitrage Mondays – More Than 10 Deals With Spreads Of Over 25%
Merger activity ground to a halt last week with no new deals announced and two active deals completed. Merger spreads continued to remain wide for a second week in a row and at one point even AbbVie’s acquisition of Allergan ...