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New corporate structure also serves ‘potential M&A that may come up’. May? Potential?
Scratching the surface of the SATS + WFS deal disclosed today, the obvious headline M&A story is that one rather small provider of food and gateway services, as the Singaporean suitor defines itself, is doubling down to acquire a leveraged French handler, which fetched a hefty €2.25bn enterprise value (EV) to agree the sale.
That equates to S$3.1bn, which isn’t far away from SATS’s own enterprise value at between S$3.9bn and S$4.5bn, depending on whether we abide by forward or trailing EV ...
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