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Ackman’s Pershing Square Offers to Buy Universal Music Group

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Pershing Square offered to buy Universal Music Group for €9.4 billion ($10.8 billion) in a deal comprised of cash plus shares. The unsolicited buyout proposal is a material M&A event that could re-rate UMG equity, drive near-term share price volatility and prompt strategic/board responses as deal financing and final terms are clarified.

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Pershing Square offered to buy Universal Music Group for €9.4 billion ($10.8 billion) in a deal comprised of cash plus shares. The unsolicited buyout proposal is a material M&A event that could re-rate UMG equity, drive near-term share price volatility and prompt strategic/board responses as deal financing and final terms are clarified.

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