M&A Pitch Deck Examples

Pluralsight is an online learning platform for software developers, IT administrators, and creative professionals. Pluralsight was acquired for $3.5B by Vista Equity Partners in 2021.

Tesla acquired SolarCity in 2016 for ~$2.6 billion and reorganized its solar business into Tesla Energy.

In July 2023, an investment group led by Josh Harris (co-founder of Apollo Global & owner of the 76ers), acquired the Washington Commanders from Dan Snyder for $6.05 billion.

Salesforce acquired Slack for $27.7 billion (mostly in cash) in 2021, representing a 70% premium to the stock's average trading price at the time.

AT&T fought regulators for six years to acquire Time Warner for $85 billion, only to spin it off three years later.

WWE and UFC officially merged in a deal valued at $21.4 billion under the TKO umbrella.

Microsoft made its largest acquisition of all-time, purchasing Activision Blizzard for $68.7B in 2023.

After initial talks fizzled out in June, Skydance Media signed an $8 billion deal in July 2024 to take over Paramount Global.

Darden Restaurants (owner of Olive Garden) sold Red Lobster in 2014 for $2.1B to PE firm Golden Gate Capital.

On January 23, 2020, Helen of Troy announced the acquisition of Drybar. The deal included the Drybar trademark and other IP.

Less than a month after a failed attempt to acquire Grubhub, Uber Technologies agreed to purchase Postmates Inc for $2.65B in an all-stock deal.

In May 2022, Philip Morris launched a takeover bid for Swedish Match (manufacturer of Zyn). Despite shareholder resistance, by late November, PMI acquired over 90% ownership and de-listed Swedish Match from the stock market.

New York streetwear brand Supreme was acquired by VF, the parent company of Vans, The North Face and Timberland.

Frontier Airlines offered to merge with Spirit but the proposal failed because of lack of support from Spirit shareholders. JetBlue made a better offer than Frontier to buy Spirit but a federal judge blocked the deal.

In March 2015, H.J. Heinz Company and Kraft Foods Group, Inc. entered into a binding agreement to merge their operations, resulting in the formation of The Kraft Heinz Company.

Kroger announced plans to acquire Albertsons for $24.6B in 2022, but the FTC filed suit to block the merger.

Adobe was set to acquire Figma for $20B in 2022, but the deal fell through a year later due to regulatory pressure.

Nvida was set to acquire Arm for $40B in 2020, but the FTC blocked the transaction.

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