Comment / M&A radar: Partial sale of Ceva the only certainty as deal smoke thickens

This Indian summer has brought about a slew of hot rumours and serious – and some less serious – market talk regarding deal-making that I thought it would be worth sharing in a preliminary attempt aimed at predicting what could be next in our beloved, sometimes overly cautious, industry.

What’s known

Drawing from several conversations about CMA CGM/Ceva Logistics in the past few weeks, I have concluded that we are soon going to have to add about $1bn of almost evenly split ...