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In the stock?: Advent prepares bid for Tate & Lyle
This week the focus will be on US private equity firm Advent as it prepares a bid for Tate & Lyle.
The takeover giant is preparing a bid for the FTSE 250-listed artificial sweeteners company, which was founded by Henry Tate in Liverpool in 1859.
The company’s shares soared following the reports, which first appeared in the Financial Times, taking its market value to £3bn.
Advent acquired British aerospace manufacturing company Cobham in 2019 for £4bn. But when he sold much of the business 18 months after the deal was completed, it sparked outrage.
The removal left Cobham, whose pioneering refueling technology enabled Royal Air Force aircraft to carry out missions in the 1982 Falklands War, without any manufacturing site in the UK.
The speed of the dismemberment fueled debate over private capital and ownership of key technologies.
Lady Cobham, daughter-in-law of aviator Sir Alan Cobham, who founded the company, said in 2021: “If this were another country, the deal would not have been allowed.”
Then Advent pounced on Ultra Electronics. This year it agreed to sell Ultra’s Signature Management and Power business for ships and submarines to Missouri-based Esco for $550m (£420m).
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