Posts tagged: Macquarie

Aussies launch £636 million takeover bid for waste management firm Renewi

Thursday, 28 September 2023, 12:02 pm

Little old Betaville reads everyday in the newspaper business sections how there has been a drop off in dealmaking but it does seem to quite tally with whats happening on the ground in the London market.

Today, for example, Macquarie - the Australian infrastructure investor - has just announced it wants to buy London-listed waste management company Renewi for 775p a share. Below is a link to the press release:..

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Macquarie said to be considering £5 billion plus M&G takeover bid, reveals Sky News - Part 3

Wednesday, 8 March 2023, 4:28 pm

Some curious comments have emerged from down under about the Macquarie - M&G takeover situation.

"There are so many speculated transactions. So we wait and talk about them once they are actually done."

That's what the boss of Macquarie, Shemara Wikramanayake, said at the Australian Financial Review Business Summit in Sydney yesterday...

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Macquarie said to be considering £5 billion plus M&G takeover bid, reveals Sky News - Part 2

Thursday, 2 March 2023, 10:35 am

There has been a somewhat muted response this morning to Mark, "The Kleinmanator", Kleinman's scoop about Macquarie weighing an offer for FTSE 100-listed fund manager M&G.

Below is a link to the Mark's scoop, which contains some strong detail, including the fact that Macquarie had appointed advisers from Morgan Stanley to work on the deal for M&G...

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BT Group in talks with Macquarie and others about selling stake in Openreach, reports FT - Part 4

Monday, 22 June 2020, 5:44 pm

Does anybody else think yesterday's business splash in the The Sunday Telegraph about the Public Investment Fund accumulating a sizeable shareholding in BT Group is connected to the FT's scoop last month about Macquarie holding talks with the FTSE 100-listed telecoms giant about buying a stake in Openreach?..

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BT Group in talks with Macquarie and others about selling stake in Openreach, reports FT - Part 2

Friday, 15 May 2020, 10:00 am

Last night's scoop from the FT about BT selling Opeanreach to Macquarie is getting a serious poo-pooing this morning from analysts, hacks and spinners.

Indeed, Jim "Armo" Armitage, City editor of the Evening Standard, pisses on the story from a high height. Below is a link to his column and a follow up "EXCLUSIVE" containing a "denial" in a leaked memo to Opeanreach staff:..

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RARE ALERT: Welltower Inc said to be sniffing around £2.5 billion Barchester Healthcare

Friday, 23 November 2018, 10:29 pm

The Irish punters that invested in care home giant Barchester Healthcare could be about make another from the fortune from the care home company.

Betaville understands that several large American companies, including listed real estate investment trust Welltower Inc, have shown an interest in the business, whose owners have appointed JP Morgan to find a buyer...

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Revealed: secret name of consortium preparing £12 billion bid for National Grid distribution business - sources - part 2

Thursday, 8 December 2016, 8:15 am

So, coming up with a silly name to differentiate your consortium from the other Chinese bidders clearly does work. This morning it was announced the mega consortium, which called itself (in secret) the "Saxon Infrastructure Distribution Company", has won the £13 billion National Grid gas distribution auction...

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