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.

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Event-Driven

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<li>The agreement between Vodafone and the consortium values the company at a generous 24x EV/Fwd EBITDA, 19% premium over the 3-month VWAP (14.7% above my DCF-based fair value estimate).</li>
<li>Nevertheless the spread (+0.44%) signals that Oak Holdings may not obtain the necessary 95% to squeeze-out. Risk arb funds are betting on higher returns from a Domination Agreement.</li>
<li>On rather aggressive assumptions (90% payout, 4.5% rate of return, 2.5% growth) a dividend-discount model provides a €39.6/share valuation. This could still turn into another messy Kabel Deustschland scenario.</li>
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The agreement between Vodafone and the consortium values the company at a generous 24x EV/Fwd EBITDA, 19% premium over the 3-month VWAP (14.7% above my DCF-based fair value estimate).
Nevertheless the spread (+0.44%) signals that Oak Holdings may not obtain the necessary 95% to squeeze-out. Risk arb funds are betting on higher returns from a Domination Agreement.
On rather aggressive assumptions (90% payout, 4.5% rate of return, 2.5% growth) a dividend-discount model provides a €39.6/share valuation. This could still turn into another messy Kabel Deustschland scenario.


Oak Holdings/Vantage Towers: Tendering Vs. Domination Agreement