Tag: Mergers & Acquisitions M&A
Ex-Commerzbank boss Blessing is to become the head of Danske’s board of directors
Martin blessing The former Commerzbank boss has been on the Danske Bank supervisory board since 2020. (Photo: Bloomberg) Hamburg Martin Blessing has been a member of the supervisory board of…
Signal Iduna takes a stake in online commercial bank Penta
Penta boss Markus Pertlwieser According to the head of the online bank, the cooperation with Signal Iduna is of enormous value for Penta. (Photo: Uta Wagner for Handelsblatt) Berlin The…
Softbank profit plummets 87 percent
soft bank The Japanese tech giant is currently going through difficult times. (Photo: AP) Rio, Tokyo The global slump in tech stocks has hit Softbank, the world’s largest tech investor,…
Nvidia fails to acquire Arm
san francisco The sale of the chip designer Arm to the US group Nvidia is off the table. Arm owner Softbank officially announced the failure of the multi-billion dollar deal…
AMS Osram announces further sales
AMS factory in Unterpremstätten The AMS-Osram group has felt the global shortage of chips. (Photo: Reuters) Munich The new lighting and sensor technology specialist AMS Osram wants to part with…
Nvidia’s $40 billion takeover of Arm is said to have failed
san francisco The US graphics card specialist Nvidia is said to have failed in its attempt to take over the British chip developer Arm. Regulatory authorities in the USA, the…
Private equity investor KPS is looking for targets in German medium-sized companies
Exhaust with exhaust gases from an internal combustion engine Many suppliers are finding it difficult to switch to electromobility. (Photo: imago/Michael Weber) Frankfurt The US holding company KPS goes where…
Toshiba just wants to split into two companies
Toshiba headquarters in Tokyo The conglomerate, founded in 1875, has been struggling from crisis to crisis since an accounting scandal in 2015. (Photo: AP) Tokyo The Japanese conglomerate Toshiba is…
Financial investor CD&R like German machine builders
Production of printing machines CD&R is hoping for a boost in innovation among German machine builders. (Photo: obs) Frankfurt The investment company Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) has expansion plans…
Investor attacks the supervisory board and board of directors of the bank
Frankfurt After the failed takeover of Aareal Bank by the bidder consortium Atlantic Bidco, the activist investor Petrus Advisers attacked the bank’s supervisory board and management board. “We welcome Atlantic…
How the major investor Softbank is struggling for trust
soft bank Softbank is considered a “kingmaker” that turns start-ups into global corporations. (Photo: Klawe Rzeczy, Getty [M]) Berlin, Tokyo, London, New York “Stop, stop, stop!” David Nothacker and Nicolaus…
The sale of the real estate financier Aareal Bank has burst. Now activist investors want to replace five supervisory board members
Frankfurt After the failed takeover of Aareal Bank by the bidder consortium Atlantic Bidco, the activist investor Petrus Advisers attacked the bank’s supervisory board and management board. “We welcome Atlantic…
How the major investor Softbank is struggling for trust
soft bank Softbank is considered a “kingmaker” that turns start-ups into global corporations. (Photo: Klawe Rzeczy, Getty [M]) Berlin, Tokyo, London, New York “Stop, stop, stop!” David Nothacker and Nicolaus…
Amazon apparently interested in Peloton takeover
peloton In the lockdown, the company experienced a hype. After that, however, things went downhill sharply. (Photo: dpa) new York According to a newspaper, several corporations are interested in taking…
Hella boss Rolf Breidenbach hands over management
Rolf Breidenbach Breidenbach and the shareholders’ committee have agreed to terminate the current management contract. Shortly before, the group was taken over by the supplier Faurecia. (Photo: Hella) Dusseldorf Hella…
Boss Johannes Bussmann leaves the group
Lufthansa Technik boss Johannes Bussmann After seven years at the helm of the Lufthansa maintenance subsidiary, the manager has decided to start again in the technology sector. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt…
ABB is planning a billion-euro IPO for its e-mobility subsidiary around Easter
ABB charging stations A new fast charging station should help the subsidiary to new growth. (Photo: via REUTERS) Frankfurt, Zurich The electrical engineering group ABB plans to list its electric…
Sale of HQ Asset Management failed
Stephen Keitel The search for partners for the financial service providers of HQ Holding was only partially successful. (Photo: Oliver Ruether/laif) Frankfurt The HQ Holding of the Harald Quandt family…
Siemens Energy, Trumpf, Thales: Marvel Fusion brings energy expertise
Dusseldorf The idea of nuclear fusion sounds tempting: nuclear energy, safe and inexhaustible. The start-up Marvel Fusion has set itself the task of making the dream of fusion energy, which…
Mining group starts recycling electric car batteries
Glencore headquarters in Baar The Swiss commodity giant is getting into the recycling of e-car batteries. (Photo: Reuters) Zurich The Glencore mining group is getting into the recycling of old…