Status: Clearance Acquirer: Brookfield Business Partners L.P. (Bermuda; Canada) Acquired: Westinghouse Electric Company (U.S.) Value: approximately $4.6 billion Industry Tags: Energy… Continue Reading
Status: Clearance Acquirer: Foxconn Ventures Pte. Ltd. (Singapore); Hon Hai Technology Group (Taiwan) Acquired: Lordstown Motors Corp. (United States) Value: $52.7 Million (Initial Closing) and approximately $47.3 Million (Second Closing) Industry Tags: Electric Vehicles… Continue Reading
Status Tags: Clearance; Mitigation; Withdraw and Refiled (2d Time); Interim Order; Withdrawn and Refiled Acquirer: Sino Biopharmaceutical Limited (Hong Kong SAR, China) Acquired: F-Star Therapeutics, Inc. (United Kingdom; U.S.) Value: $161 million Industry Tags: Pharmaceutical; Biotechnology; Healthcare… Continue Reading
Status: New/ Upcoming Acquirer: Advent International Corporation (U.S.); British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (British Columbia) Acquired: Maxar Technologies Inc. (U.S.) Value: approximately $6.4 billion Industry Tags: Space; Satellites… Continue Reading
Status: Clearance Acquirer: Japan Bank for International Cooperation (Japan) Acquired: NuScale Power Corporation (U.S.) Value: $110 million Industry Tags: Energy; Nuclear… Continue Reading
Status: Clearance Acquirer: Alphawave IP Group plc (United Kingdom) Acquired: OpenFive business unit from SiFive Inc. (U.S.) Value: $210 million Industry Tags: Semiconductors… Continue Reading
Status: Clearance Acquirer: Public Investment Fund (Saudi Arabia) Acquired: Lucid Group, Inc. (U.S.) Value: $200 million Industry Tags: Electric Vehicles… Continue Reading
Status: Clearance Acquirer: Learning Technologies Group (United Kingdom) Acquired: GP Strategies Corporation (U.S.) Value: $394 million Industry Tags: Professional Services; Engineering & Construction… Continue Reading
Status: Clearance Acquirer: OMERS Infrastructure Management Inc. (Canada) Acquired: FS Saguaro, LLC, certain assets, and the Development Business of First Solar, Inc. (US) Value: US$261 million Industry: Energy… Continue Reading
Status: Clearance Acquirer: Clairvest Group Inc. (Canada) Acquired: O&M business of First Solar, Inc. (US) Value: US$213 million Industry: Energy… Continue Reading
Status: Clearance Acquirer: Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction Company, Ltd. (South Korea); Next Tech 3 New Technology Investment (South Korea); and Samsung C&T Corporation (South Korea) Acquired: NuScale Power, LLC (U.S.) Value: $80 million Industry Tags: Energy; Nuclear… Continue Reading
International M&A practitioners are used to dealing with CFIUS for any transaction involving assets in the US. The Europeans M&A practitioners are, however, catching up, and many multijurisdictional deals will now face clearance in a number of countries. The latest addition to the list, the UK National Security and Investment Bill, is broad in scope … Continue Reading
Status: Undetermined Acquirer: Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (Canada) Acquired: American Equity Investment Life Holding Company (US) Value: US$675 million Industry Tags: Financial Services; Insurance… Continue Reading