The 16 Biggest Corporate Mega-Deals Of All Time
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Comcast Cable announced today that it will acquire Time Warner Cable in a $45.2 billion deal. Including Time Warner's debt, the deal is valued at nearly $67 billion which is what the Bloomberg data represents.
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While this may seem like a mega-deal, its actually only the sixteenth largest in M&A history.
On the back of that announcement, we dug around to find the biggest mergers and acquisitions of all time.
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Since some of the names have changed, we've clarified some of the deals.
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- The biggest deal refers to the AOL-Time Warner merger, Time Warner is the current name of the acquirer.
- The second biggest deal refers to Vodafone Airtouch's acquisition of Mannesmann. Vodafone Group is the current name of the acquirer.
- The tenth biggest deal refers to Comcast acquires AT&T Broadband from AT&T.
- The fourteenth largest deal refers to Citicorp's merger with Travelers Group. The acquirer is now known as Citigroup.
- The fifteenth largest deal refers to SBC Communications acquisition of Ameritech. The acquirer is now known as AT&T.
Note: We culled the data from Bloomberg. The list only goes back to 1998.
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