São Paulo - The Japanese company SoftBank Technology announced on Monday, 18, an agreement to buy British designer ARM chips for 24.3 billion pounds - the equivalent of US $ 32.2 billion - in cash.
The transaction is considered a bold bet that the segment of machines connected to the Internet will transform the Japanese group.
ARM technology, the largest company in the technological area in market value listed on the London Stock Exchange, is used in processors that power giant apparatus of electronics such as Samsung, Huawei and Apple.
If realized, this will be the largest acquisition of a European technology company.
The components based on technology licensed from ARM are present in a large majority of the world's smart phones and the British group has expanded to other fronts including Internet connected devices.
ARM is considered as the hub of the technology industry's shift toward the internet of things - ow is known technology in which household appliances, vehicles and sensors in buildings, for example, collect and exchange data.
The deal is the largest ever made by the Japanese SoftBank, which operates in the technology and telecommunications markets. Your investments are varied: it has assets in the US operator Sprint stake in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba and to investments in the humanoid robot Pepper. The company, however, did not have a large presence in the semiconductor industry.
Under the offer supported by the ARM board, SoftBank will pay 17 pounds for each share of British company, one of more than 40% premium over the closing of the paper on Friday, 15. Shares of ARM, after the announcement of the purchase, fired more than 42%.
"This is one of the most important purchases already made and I hope that ARM is a key pillar of the growth strategy of SoftBank," said the founder of the Japanese company, Masayoshi Son said in a statement.
Son said he wanted to "cement SoftBank 2.0" recover the deficit and Sprint still "working on some crazy ideas." The company also said it plans to create 1500 new jobs in the UK, in addition to increasing hiring abroad. The company also said the ARM would keep its headquarters in Cambridge.
The acquisition of Sprint for $ 22 billion in 2013 left the SoftBank with heavy debts. The company had debt of 11.9 trillion yen at the end of March, including 4 trillion yen in Sprint.
Brexit
With the acquisition of ARM, traditionally British company, UK government officials said the Brexit was not negative for the economy.
New Minister of the UK Treasury, Philip Hammond, entered purchase. "The acquisition takes place only three weeks after the decision of the referendum," he told the Financial Times. "It shows that Britain has lost none of its attractiveness to international investors."
When the United Kingdom voted for out of the European Union, many experts and analysts considered that the country would lose its power to attract new international investors, afraid of an unstable scenario in Britain.
"I did not make the investment because of Brexit. The paradigm shift is the opportunity," said Masayoshi Son.
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