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INTRODUCTION TO FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

ASSIGNMENT ON DATA OF “FIVE MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS”

1. VODAFONE-IDEA MERGER
The merger will be completed in 2018. Post appoval and the fresh issuance of the certificate of
the incorporation by the Registrar of the Companies, the old name "Idea Cellular Limited" will be
replaced by "Vodafone Idea Limited".
Vodafone will own 45.1% of the combined company after transferring a 4.9% stake to the Aditya
Birla Group. The Aditya Birla Group will own 26% of the combined company and Idea's
shareholders the remaining 28.9%.
Acquiring Company - Vodafone
Target Company - Idea
Purchase Consideration - $579million
Mode of Payment - In cash
Controlling Authority – Jointly controlled by Vodafone India & The Aditya Birla Group

2. APPLE – SHAZAM ACQUISITION

Apple acquired Shazam on December 11, 2017
Acquiring Company - Apple
Target Company - Shazam
Purchase Consideration - $400million
Mode of Payment - In cash
Controlling Authority – Tim Cook (Apple CEO)
3. PALO-ALTO ACQUIRES LIGHTCYBER
Acquisition on February 28,2017.
Palo Alto Networks® the next-generation security company, today announced its acquisition of
LightCyber ®, a privately held cyber-security company that has developed award-winning, highly
automated and accurate behavioral analytics technology.
Acquiring Company - Palo-Alto
Target Company - Lightcyber
Purchase Consideration - $105million
Mode of Payment - In cash
Controlling Authority – Mark McLaughlin (Palo Alto- CEO)

4. INTEL - MOBILEYE MERGER

Merged on August 8,2017.
Acquiring Company - Intel Corporation
Target Company - MobilEye
Purchase Consideration - $15.3 billion
Mode of Payment - Purchased 84% of MobilEye’s Outstanding Shares
Controlling Authority - Amnon Shashua

5. CISCO - VIPTELA ACQUISITION

Cisco announced on May, 2017 it would acquire Viptela for $610 million, a conservative purchase
given Viptela was valued at $875 million the year before. Given the company already had two SD-
WAN solutions, Intelligent WAN (IWAN) and Meraki SD-WAN. What makes Viptela unique is it is an
open software-based solution that can be deployed as an on-premises workload or in the cloud. The
solution is commonly deployed as an Amazon Web Services workload and managed by a Viptela
console. It may be possible to deploy and run Viptela on the Cisco ISR, providing a cloud-managed
SD-WAN solution that utilizes conventional hardware.
Acquiring Company - Cisco
Target Company - Viptela
Purchase Consideration - $610million
Mode of Payment - In cash
Controlling Authority - Chuck Robbins