All M&A articles
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News briefsHugo Boss chairman to step down amid Frasers pressure
Frasers Group, Hugo Boss’s largest shareholder at near-48 percent, has sought a second board seat for Robert Palmer.
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News briefsChina approves Anta’s 29% stake acquisition in Puma
China’s market regulator unconditionally approved Anta’s purchase of a 29.06% Puma stake worth 1.506 billion euros.
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News briefsSGN Group forms SGN Sport Nordic
The move consolidates decision-making and supplier relationships that Sweden and Finland previously ran separately.
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News briefsHyrox founders buy back control from Infront
WndrCo, the fund backing Hyrox rival Xenom since March, is also part of the buying group.
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ArticleCastore reportedly explores sale a decade after launch
JPMorgan is canvassing buyers for the brand Andy Murray backs, with interest from China among the approaches.
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News briefsNew Wave Group to acquire Uhlsport GmbH
The all-share deal covers Uhlsport and Kempa, adds football and handball gear to Craft Sportswear’s 5,000-club network.
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News briefsBreaking: Decathlon to acquire 50% of Sport 2000 France
The retailer would gain access to a network of 190 mountain stores and enter the ski rental market.
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ArticleLakers acquisition to proceed, but stake size in question
A legal challenge from Lakers governor Jeanie Buss threatens to complicate the landmark $12.5 billion acquisition of the Los Angeles Lakers by Bob Iger and Josh Kushner, as a family ownership dispute escalates.
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ArticleGerman fashion house Hugo Boss can’t shake off Frasers
The offer was just a 4 percent premium, but 17.62 percent of shareholders tendered anyway, pushing Frasers past 47 percent.
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ArticleKushner, Iger to pay a reported $12.5bn for L.A. Lakers
Mark Walter has agreed to sell his majority stake in the Los Angeles Lakers to Josh Kushner and Bob Iger at a reported valuation of $12.5 billion – a figure that would set a new record for a US sports franchise sale and exceed Walter’s own purchase price by 25 percent in under a year.
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ArticleCompagnie des Alpes buys into PadelCity in €12m Series A round
French leisure giant Compagnie des Alpes has taken an initial 33.9 percent stake in Munich-based padel operator PadelCity for €20 million, valuing the business at more than €65 million and laying the groundwork for a potential full takeover by 2030.
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ArticlePaul Allen estate agrees to $9.612 billion Seahawks sale
The buyer group is led by Vinod Khosla, who must first sell his minority stake in the San Francisco 49ers.
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News briefsFrasers’ Hugo Boss plan goes beyond ownership
A reported plan to install Frasers CEO Michael Murray as Hugo Boss CEO shows that the retailer is treating equity ownership as inseparable from operational control.
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ArticleGarmin adds coaching to its wearables business
Garmin has bought two of endurance sport’s best-known coaching platforms one day after launching its Cirqa smart band. for
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News briefsFrasers stake in Hugo Boss passes 30% threshold
Frasers has crossed the 30 percent mandatory-bid threshold in Hugo Boss, and the board is urging shareholders to reject its offer.
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News briefsPaddletek buys pickleball paddle maker PIKKL
PIKKL joins a portfolio spanning Bantam, Tempest and Honeyfoam, as Paddletek also signs three unrelated pro Johnsons.
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ArticleMAP Active Buys Sports Direct Malaysia
With the rupiah under pressure and domestic retail sluggish, MAP Active’s Malaysia buy reads as earnings diversification.
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News briefsFrench retailer i-Run buys Belgian chain Trakks
The PE-backed French running retailer’s purchase of the Belgian chain marks its first physical stores outside its home market.
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ArticleMedia firm Versant buys simulator firm Full Swing
Versant Media, parent of Golf Channel, pays $530 million for Full Swing, the tech behind TGL and Tiger Woods’ at-home simulator.
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ArticleSpain regulator OKs Decathlon-Intersport deal, conditions apply
Spain’s competition watchdog says Decathlon could still face a political veto over the Canary Islands deal.
