M&A Deal Summary |
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Date | 2019-06-07 |
Target | Barnes & Noble Booksellers |
Sector | Retail |
Buyer(s) | Waterstones Booksellers |
Deal Type | Add-on Acquisition |
Deal Value | 683M USD |
Advisor(s) | Evercore Group Guggenheim Securities (Financial) Baker Botts Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (Legal) |
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Waterstones Booksellers Ltd. is the UK and Ireland’s major high street bookseller with 293 bookshops, including Foyles, Hatchards, Hodges Figgis and branches in Ireland, Brussels and Amsterdam. Waterstones is the only national specialist book retailer of scale in the UK, with the average sized shop carrying a range of around 30,000 individual books and with over 200,000 titles in the largest shop.
DEAL STATS | # |
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Overall | 1 of 2 |
Sector (Retail) | 1 of 2 |
Type (Add-on Acquisition) | 1 of 2 |
State (New York) | 1 of 1 |
Country (United States) | 1 of 1 |
Year (2019) | 1 of 1 |
Size (of disclosed) | 1 of 1 |
DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
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2022-02-28 |
Blackwell’s
Oxford, United Kingdom Blackwell’s is an academic and specialist bookseller also trades online and has a portfolio that comprises eighteen shops, as well as shops in London, Edinburgh, and Manchester, alongside those based on university campuses. Blackwell’s was founded in 1879 and is based in Oxford, United Kingdom. |
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