Mergers and Acquisitions

Last year saw the highest number of company mergers and acquisitions seen in a decade in Portugal. According to the Portuguese competition authority (Autoridade da Concorrência – AdC), [...]

Portugal’s competition authority has definitively rejected a take-over bid by Vodafone to buy telecoms company Nowo. “The Autoridade da Concorrência (AdC) has decided not to authorise the [...]

The US fund Warburg Pincus, together with Zeno Partners and Portuguese banker António Horta Osório who are in the race to buy Altice Portugal, say they only want the whole company lock, stock and [...]

Sonae’s Sparkfood, an investment arm of the group led by Cláudia Azevedo, dedicated to healthy and sustainable foods, is in exclusive negotiations to acquire Diorren located in Brittany. Reports [...]

The US global investment management company Barings, which specialises in real estate and specialist equity markets, has announced its purchase of a former factory site that belonged to the glass [...]

Portugal’s monopolies and competition authority AdC has thrown out Vodafone’s bid for the Portuguese telecoms company Nowo. According to Negócios, the rejection is down to commitments from the [...]

The pre-sale valuation for the anticipated management buyout of Cofina Media, which holds the newspaper and TV media Correio da Manhã, CMTV, Negócios, Record, and Sábado, to a group of investors, [...]

The Portuguese group Sonae and Bankinter Consumer Finance completed a joint-venture on Thursday (November 30) which included the sale of 50% of Universo which will be held in equal parts by the [...]

The Spanish bank Abanca is now the owner of Portuguese bank Eurobic that will close 2023 with an expected record profit of just over €100 million. The bank, which was sold for €300 million, [...]

Portugal’s Sonae Group led by Cláudia Azevedo, has launched a €868 million takeover bid for Finland’s Musti, a listed company specialised in pet products in Finland, Sweden and Norway. Sonae has [...]