Seagate Technologies operates in a highly competitive‚ price-sensitive‚ and growing industry for disk drives. Competitors include a number of direct‚ indirect‚ foreign‚ and domestic competitors including‚ but not limited to Quantum‚ Western Digital‚ IBM‚ Toshiba‚ and NEC. To compete‚ Seagate’s maintains low prices and introduces new cost-effective products that are equal to or better than the competition. To support such a strategy‚ Seagate invests heavily in R&D‚ maintains strong supplier
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“LA ADQUISICIÓN DE SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY” 1. Why is Seagate undertaking this transaction? Is this necessary to divest the Veritas shares in separate transaction? Porque el mercado estaba menospreciando el valor de sus acciones‚ esto ya que aun cuando Seagate Technology poseía gran parte de VERITAS (155 millones de acciones) sólo aumento en un 25% el valor de sus acciones que es nada si se compara con el 200% que aumentó el de las de VERITAS. En sí no es necesario‚ pero al hacer
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Re: Seagate Technology 1. Describe the main terms of the Seagate Technology buyout? Why is Seagate undertaking this transaction? Is it necessary to divest the Veritas shares in a separate transaction? What are other alternative ways to create value? The primary contemplated terms would be to sell Seagate’s disk drive mfg assets including $765M in cash to Suez Acquisition Company controlled by Silver Lake Partners. The purchase would be financed by equity put up by Silver Lake and also by an‚
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External There are three major external environmental influences that have had a major impact on business over the past three to five years. Data collected from six environments‚ including demographics‚ technology‚ soci-cultural‚ economic‚ political-legal‚ and global identify these three “big deltas”. The information gathered illustrates that the three big deltas are increasing interconnectivity‚ the changing face of America‚ and changing dominant world power. Unless indicated‚ all data points have
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Seagate Technology* A case (with teaching note) on the role of senior business leaders in driving work/life cultural change. Phyllis Siegel‚ Rutgers the State University of New Jersey The Wharton Work/Life Roundtable A Division of the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project University of Pennsylvania * This research was funded in part by a Sloan Foundation Grant #B1999-76. A note of special gratitude goes to: Alice Campbell‚ Scott Cooper‚ Debbie Hufnagel‚ and Ellen Ernst Kossek for
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Bidding for Hertz: Leveraged Buyout Case The dual-track process used by Ford to initiate “consideration of strategic alternatives” makes the bidding process for Hertz more difficult. The bidding group has to spend more time to gather more information required for the process. To be able to give out an acceptable price‚ which maximizes the value for Ford‚ the cost the group has to put to buyout is also higher. Longer time to collect the information means the group lose its competitive advantages
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states that it is “about identifying and overcoming barriers and excelling as an individual and team member. Be ready to learn through activities and speakers about achievement and excellence. Be prepared to experience our corporate values and Seagate competencies in new and unexpected settings and get ready to see how our objectives can be reached by challenging ourselves‚ adapting to new circumstances and contributing to an aligned focused team.” (Larson‚ 2008) EcoSeagate employs four types
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(Table of Contents) 1. 2. 3.LBO 4.TXU 5. LBO 6. (Overview of Leveraged Buyouts) (Mechanics of an LBO Analysis) (LBO Best Practices) (TXU Case Study) (LBO Modeling) (Homework Assignment) (Appendix) 1. Overview of Leveraged Buyouts (LBO) Overview of Leveraged Buyouts An LBO is the acquisition of a company or division of a company using debt for a majority of the purchase price and equity for the remainder. The buyer (the LBO Sponsor or Equity Sponsor) borrows the debt portion of
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Kinder Morgan - MBO Richard Kinder and Bill Morgan purchased a master limited partnership pipeline company from Enron for $40 million in 1997‚ founding Kinder Morgan‚ Inc. (KMI) 1. The primary benefit of an MLP comes in the form of tax savings. While shareholders in a corporation face double taxation‚ owners of a partnership are taxed only once (when receiving distributions). Corporate income tax does not exist in the partnership. When cash distributions to MLP owners exceed
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TERM SHEET Private Equity Acquisition of Seagate Technology This term sheet is intended to describe the general terms and conditions of a proposed acquisition of part of Seagate Technology. Parties | Silver Lake Partners and Seagate Technology | Transaction | Silver Lake will purchase (the “Transaction”) the disk drive business of Seagate Technology and $765 million cash | Transaction Price & Method of Transaction | The purchase price to be paid by Silver Lake to the Existing Shareholders
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