Comment / MSC or not, look at Wilson Sons – M&A arbitrage signs...

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… I guess you know what that strategy entails, but if you don’t, for a 1.0 lesson please click here.

In short, it’s not for the fainthearted.

But

There are signs that Brazil’s Wilson Sons will soon be sold, with its owners benefiting from a divestment whose value, however, since we wrote this on 27 June at near-peak Wilson Sons*, has fallen considerably for the diversified towage unit they own via a majority stake.

(*From the stats section of the FT, slightly edited: Wilson Sons, PORT3: ...