Posts tagged: Signature Aviation

Betaville Intelligence

UNCOOKED ALERT: Signature Aviation said to ... - Part 7

Thursday, 4 February 2021, 8:21 pm

Betaville was casting around for stories today and stumbled around a curious line around the three-way battle for Signature Aviation, the London-listed private jet operator.

It would appear, according to publicly available financing documents, that Global Infrastructure Partners, one of the firms interested in buying Signature Aviation, is offering to finance its bid in, er, equity. Yes, you heard that right - equity to the tune of $4.6 billion...

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UNCOOKED ALERT: Signature Aviation said to ... - Part 6

Thursday, 28 January 2021, 5:26 pm

Word is Simon "Dingo" Dingemans is leading Carlyle's potential bid for Signature Aviation.

Now, younger readers might not recall who Dingemans is. Back in the boom boom of the noughties Dingemans was one of the top dealmakers at Goldman Sachs, advising on the some the biggest takeover deals, such as the £12bn takeover of Alliance Boots by KKR in 2007 and Vodafone's hostile £115bn acquisition of Mannesmann in 2000...

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UNCOOKED ALERT: Signature Aviation said ... - Part 5

Thursday, 7 January 2021, 8:19 pm

So, Mark "the Kleinmanator" Kleinman just dug out a decent line about Blackstone teaming up with Bill Gates's fund to launching a joint £3.5 billion takeover bid for Signature Aviation. Below is a link to Mark's scoop with all the gory detail:

https://news.sky.com/story/bill-gates-and-blackstone-team-up-for-3-5bn-signature-bid-12181809..

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UNCOOKED ALERT: Signature Aviation said to ... - Part 4

Thursday, 7 January 2021, 10:50 am

Signature Aviation, the London-listed aviation services group, is said to have attracted a "third bidder".

Last month, Signature Aviation confirmed Betaville's intelligence alert about the possibility of takeover interest by disclosing both Blackstone and Global Infrastructure Partners, the owner of Edinburgh airport, had made approaches for the company...

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UNCOOKED ALERT: Signature Aviation said to ... - Part 2

Thursday, 17 December 2020, 4:54 pm

It would appear Signature Aviation, and its highly paid advisers at JP Morgan and Tulchan Communications have decided to ignore the fact that little old Betaville published an UNCOOKED ALERT this morning about the potential deal.

In today's confirmation statement (see the link below) there is a simple reference to "movement in its share price" and no reference to Betaville's scoop (see the link below)...

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UNCOOKED ALERT: Signature Aviation said to...

Thursday, 17 December 2020, 11:51 am

Signature Aviation, the UK-listed aviation services company, is at the centre of bid speculation.

People following the situation have heard rumours about the possibility of a takeover bid for, or stakebuilding in, Signature Aviation.

One person following the situation suggested the acquirer could be one of America's largest private equity firms while another person said they heard rumours the potential offeror could be a hedge fund that carries out outright takeover bids...

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