Sanlam, African Rainbow Capital and Alexander Forbes have, today announced 2 new deals, on top of many others concluded this year.
1) Sanlam Life Insurance is acquiring 100% of Alexander Forbes’ Individual Client Administration business for a cash consideration of R200m.
2) Sanlam concluded a sale and transfer of business agreement with Alexander Forbes Group Holdings which will result in Sanlam Life Insurance disposing of its operations in relation to large stand-alone retirement fund administration to Alexander Forbes for R154m cash.
3) Alexander Forbes agreed to buy out the shareholders of EBS International including the 25% held by African Rainbow Capital in EBS International.
4) Mid 2021, Alexander Forbes Life sold & transferred group risk and retail life business operations to Sanlam Life for R100m.
Northam Holdings is now the majority shareholder of Royal Bafokeng Platinum after acquiring 32.8% for R17bn.
Northam will settle R17bn by issue of ~34.4m Northam shares to RBH which is ~8.7% of Northam and R8.6bn in cash.
R3.6bn of the R8.6bn cash will be paid upfront.
A sale of shares agreement was entered into between Northam, Royal Bafokeng Holdings and Royal Bafokeng Investment Holding in terms of which Northam may acquire up to 33.3% of all the Royal Bafokeng Platinum ordinary shares in issue.
Northam bought 93 930 378 (32.8%) RBPlat shares from RBIH, for an aggregate purchase consideration of R17billion representing R180.50 per RBPlat share.
The R17bn was settled through a combination of the issue of ordinary shares of Northam Holdings and cash.
Bain Capital, famous for the Edcon LBO in SA, is back with one of the biggest LBO of 2021.
Athenahealth has entered into a definitive agreement to be jointly acquired by Bain Capital and Hellman & Friedman for $17billion from Veritas Capital and Evergreen Coast Capital.
Veritas Capital and Evergreen Coast Capital took Athenahealth private for $5.7bn in 2019 and merged it with assets from GE Healthcare.
Typical leveraged buyout transaction.
Veritas and Evergreen Coast Capital received $4.9bn in debt financing and only out in $800m of equity.
Of the $17bn required for the Antheahealth deal, only $7bn will be financed with equity from Hellman & Friedman and Bain Capital with Hellman & Friedman gettkbg the lion's share.
Dis-chem is having a busy financial year that includes;
4 acquisitions,
launch of a delivery service and
the sale of Dis-chem shares by the founders (7.50% via an accelerated bookbuild, 3.75% to management and 10.05% to a BEE consortium).
1) Sep 2021, Competition Tribunal approved Dis-Chem’s acquisition of 100% of the issued share capital in and shareholder claims of Pure Pharmacy, trading as Medicare Health (50 pharmacies) from existing shareholders.
Dis-Chem will pay a final purchase consideration of R250m.
Many of the stores in the Medicare portfolio are in convenience centres, in geographies where Dis-Chem is currently under-represented which gives the Group access to new markets.
Year ended 28 Feb 2021, Medicare generated revenue of R1.1 billion, with dispensary contributing 67%
If it is true that ARC (Motsepe) and Remgro (Rupert) might buy Puma rugby union, how will it work considering that they already own 74.9% of the Blue Bulls?
Bulls signed an equity deal which led to a change in the shareholding to;
ARC: 37.45%,
Remgro: 37.45%
Bulls: 25.1%.
In 2003, Patrice Motsepe bought a 51% controlling stake in Sundowns to partner the Tsichlas family.
He ⬆️ his shareholding in Sundowns in 2004 by buying the remaining 49% from the Tsichlas family for an +-R65m which led to the renaming of the club to ‘Mamelodi’ Sundowns.
Remgro owns 100% of the Stellenbosch Academy of Sport (SAS).
SAS is the sole owner of Stellenbosch FC which plays in the DSTV league.
SAS is also a permanent base for the Western Province Rugby.
Both Patrice Mostepe and Johann Rupert own two PSL teams and a rugby team.