This Draft was no different with Boots CEO Pessina managing to land a third of the 8% Walgreens equity swapped in exchange for this all share deal. the 8% equity paid for 45% of Boots and the other equity in the large pharmacy chain competitor will cost another $9.5B. Walgreens will also add up all of Boots debt on to its combined books at that point.
Boots’ apparently is already a hot property in China. KKR owned Boots thus gets to travel across the pond and ship its No 7 cosmetics to US stores of Walgreens and Duane Reed. A rare victory for PE the deal took a long time coming and followsother big buys in Healthcare and retail this year. Goldman Sachs and Lazard fronted the deal for Walgreens and dealt with a boutique called Centerview Partners on the other side.
FT mentions Walgreens belongs to the genus of Gobble de gook, known in the Boots home country as a Hedgehog!
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/fec9706c-b9f9-11e1-aa8d-00144feabdc0.html
Related articles
Walgreens takes 45% stake in Boots(newstalk.ie)
US Pharmacy Walgreens Set To Take Over Boots(news.sky.com)
Walgreen to buy 45% of Alliance Boots for $6.7-billion(business.financialpost.com)
Reuters – Walgreen Buys 45% Stake in Alliance Boots(pehub.com)
Walgreens Going Global(247wallst.com)
Related Reading:
Investment Banker in salesclothes
