European Event-Driven Analyst

Jesus Rodriguez Aguilar

Jesús is an Insight Provider (Event-driven) on the Smartkarma network, where he looks across sectors at opportunities arising from securities mispricing (both credit and equity), share classes, bid announcements, prospective bids, and special situations. He has served as Economic and Business Advisor at the Spanish Congress in Madrid. Prior to that, he has worked in the City of London: as a Credit Analyst at Bloomberg; Event-driven associate at former boutique European Research; and doubled as Special Situations and Equity-linked VP (convertible bonds) at Merrill Lynch. Jesús has an MBA from the London Business School, a BA (Hons.) degree in Economics from the Complutense University in Madrid, and a BA (Hons.) in Law from U.N.E.D., also in Madrid.

Esseco/Ercros: Green Light from Government

Event-Driven

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/ercros-sa" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:40951:1" rel="noopener">Ercros (ECR SM)</a> 's advisors will seek an improvement in Bondalti's €3.6/share offer, which comes amidst a sharp decline in EBITDA compared to 2022, and launched at the bottom of the cycle.</li>
<li>An improved offer price of €4.4/share, a 22% increase, would represent 6x EV/25e EBITDA, 11.3x 25e P/E, and thus could gain support from the Board.</li>
<li>Gross spread is 1.25%. Considering the potential for an improved offer price, I'd be long.</li>
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Ercros (ECR SM) 's advisors will seek an improvement in Bondalti's €3.6/share offer, which comes amidst a sharp decline in EBITDA compared to 2022, and launched at the bottom of the cycle.
An improved offer price of €4.4/share, a 22% increase, would represent 6x EV/25e EBITDA, 11.3x 25e P/E, and thus could gain support from the Board.
Gross spread is 1.25%. Considering the potential for an improved offer price, I'd be long.


Bondalti/Ercros: Board Will Seek a Sweetening