It's good to see an attempted takeover of a large London-listed company get a board a recomendation amid a lacklustre merger & acquisition market (see today's business splash in The Times)...
Nordic private equity house EQT has set up a company called Freya Holdco Limited and registered it on Companies House a few days ago.
The directors of Freya include Peter Balslev and Sara Huda, both managing directors at EQT, and Thomas Spicer, a finance manager of EQT.
A quick glance at the respective ages of all these high powered buy-out executives made little old Betaville feel very old. Below is the link the filing on Companies House:..
There is an old saying on Fleet Street: three makes a journalistic trend.
So, no wonder little Betaville's old boss, Richard "Fletch" Fletcher, decided splash his business section in The Times for the second time in several days on the sudden mini M&A boom following takeover approaches fo London-listed THG, Network International and Dechra Pharmaceuticals...
Having completely missed the Network International takeover story broken by Bloomberg at lunch time little old Betaville was glad to see FTSE 250-listed Dechra Pharmaceuticals, Scandinavian private equity house EQT and the Abu Dbabi Investment Authority confirm today's UNCOOKED alert. Below is the link to that piece:
https://www.betaville.co.uk/betaville-intelligence/sfs3j57c/ ..