🎧 HSF Podcast: Public M&A EP33: The return of the bear hug

Published on April 16, 2025

In this episode we discuss "bear hugs", that is where a potential bidder for a target goes public about its possible offer without the target board's consent and appeals directly to the target's shareholders.We talk about: 

  • why a bear hug might be used by a bidder;
  • where we have seen them used in recent months; and 
  • why we are seeing more of them.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/173978/episodes/16988381-public-m-a-ep33-the-return-of-the-bear-hug.mp3
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