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.

Silver Lake/Software AG: Bain Clears the Way

Bain Capital/SoftwareOne: Room for a Better Offer

Bain Capital/​SoftwareOne: Bargaining for a Better Offer

Event-Driven

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<li>Bain goes mildly hostile, with a €34/share indicative offer (20.5x EV/Fwd EBIT on IBES consensus), above 11.1x last-10y average. Further, if it fully succeeded, it'd raise to €36/share (21.6x).</li>
<li>Software AG dislikes the improved indicative offer. The situation reminds of the battle for <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/caverion-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:21753:1" rel="noopener">Caverion Corp (CAV1V FH)</a>, now being played, in which precisely Bain has been the unexpected loser.</li>
<li>At this point, it seems Silver Lake will have to raise its offer again. I raise my TP to €34. Long (possible upside to Bain's €36/share, 6.1% gross).</li>
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Bain goes mildly hostile, with a €34/share indicative offer (20.5x EV/Fwd EBIT on IBES consensus), above 11.1x last-10y average. Further, if it fully succeeded, it'd raise to €36/share (21.6x).
Software AG dislikes the improved indicative offer. The situation reminds of the battle for Caverion Corp (CAV1V FH), now being played, in which precisely Bain has been the unexpected loser.
At this point, it seems Silver Lake will have to raise its offer again. I raise my TP to €34. Long (possible upside to Bain's €36/share, 6.1% gross).


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