Amidst Storm Recovery, a Wave of Megadeals: Disney Buying Lucasfilm, PVH Ponies Up $3B for Warnaco
First comes the epic storm and then comes the…mega-mergers? Less than 24 hours after a sizable chunk of the country was plunged into watery darkness, the Walt Disney Company announced its plan to acquire George Lucas‘s Lucasfilm in a stock and cash deal valued at $4.05 billion. Included in the deal are rights to the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises and Lucasfilm’s post-production powerhouses Industrial Light and Magic and Skywalker Sound.
So how did the deal-savvy Disney execs (see also: Pixar, Marvel) get to the magic number of $4.05
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