Inside S&P's $44 billion deal for IHS Markit - Lone Pine Capital's big year - Deloitte focuses on the cloud
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Dan DeFrancesco
Dec 4, 2020, 17:20 IST
Traders watch stock prices as they work on the main trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange early in the trading session, October 10, 2008.Mike Segar/Reuters
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It's fitting that we're just one week into the last month of 2020, yet it has already been a wild one from a dealmaking perspective.
That was the case with S&P's $44 billion bid for IHS Markit. As the deal neared the finish line, senior executives on both sides agreed to meet in person, albeit with some restrictions due to COVID.
Reed Alexander and I took an inside look at how the deal got done, along with the nuance of it being an all-stock bid.
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