M&A Deal Summary

Viterra Acquires Gavilon

On January 26, 2022, Viterra acquired real estate company Gavilon from Marubeni for 1.1B USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Viterra’s 1st transaction in the Real Estate sector.
  • This is Viterra’s largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Viterra’s 3rd transaction in the United States.
  • This is Viterra’s 1st transaction in Nebraska.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2022-01-26
Target Gavilon
Sector Real Estate
Buyer(s) Viterra
Sellers(s) Marubeni
Deal Type Divestiture
Deal Value 1.1B USD

Target

Gavilon

Omaha, Nebraska, United States
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Gavilon originates, stores, and distributes grains, oilseeds, as well as feed and food ingredients, to food manufacturers, livestock producers, poultry processors, soybean processors, and ethanol producers worldwide. Gavilon was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Viterra

Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

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Category Company
Founded 1924
Sector Agriculture
DESCRIPTION

Viterra, Inc. is a grain and oil seeds marketer and handler. Viterra handles wheat, durum, barley, canola oils, and pulses.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 3
Sector (Real Estate) 1 of 1
Type (Divestiture) 1 of 1
State (Nebraska) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 3 of 3
Year (2022) 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-01-02 Dakota Growers Pasta

Carrington, North Dakota, United States

Dakota Growers with approximately $5 billion North American pasta market, with leadership positions in the private label retail, food service and ingredient channels. where it has durum wheat milling and pasta production capabilities.

Sell $370M

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Marubeni

Tokyo, Japan

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Category Company
Founded 1858
Sector Diversified
Employees42,882
Revenue 8,508.6B JPY (2022)
DESCRIPTION
Marubeni's corporate headquarters in Tokyo, Japan.
Marubeni's corporate headquarters in Tokyo, Japan.

Marubeni is a global trading and investment firm with a diverse range of business interests. These areas encompass importing and exporting, as well as transactions in the Japanese market, related to food materials, food products, textiles, materials, pulp and paper, chemicals, energy, metals and mineral resources, transportation machinery, and includes offshore trading. The Company's activities also extend to power projects and infrastructure, plants and industrial machinery, finance, logistics and information industry, and real estate development and construction. Marubeni was founded in 1858 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 5 of 6
Sector (Real Estate) 1 of 1
Type (Divestiture) 4 of 5
State (Nebraska) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 2 of 2
Year (2022) 1 of 2
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2021-10-18 B2U Storage Solutions

Santa Monica, California, United States

B2U Storage Solutions is an energy storage designer and developer utilizing second-life batteries. The company develops energy storage systems using proprietary technology to repurpose batteries from electric vehicles (hereinafter, “EV”s). This technology allows reuse of the entire EV battery pack without battery reconfiguration, at a significantly lower deployment cost and effort. B2U Storage Solutions is based in Santa Monica, California.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-04-14 Nordic Mobile Trust

Espoo, Finland

Nordic Mobile Trust has developed and now operates a C2C platform that allows consumers to easily buy and sell used smartphones through AI-based market value calculation and automatic device recognition. There are many concerns when buying and selling used smartphones among individuals, such as the quality of the device and complicated transaction procedures. By utilizing NMT’s original digital technology, NMT plans to solve these issues and develop services globally in the future. Nordic Mobile Trust was formed in 2021 and is based in Espoo, Finland.

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