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Video game maker Electronic Arts has confirmed that it will be taken private by a consortium including Saudi Arabia’s wealth fund, along with private equity firms Silver Lake and Affinity Partners, in a deal that would value the company at some $55 billion, roughly 25% more than what the company was worth before deal rumors started circling last week.
The deal marks the largest take-private transaction in US history, topping the $45 billion buyout of Texas utility group TXU in 2007. That’s quite a record considering the rise of take-private deals more generally — a trend that’s exploded since 2012 in both count and volume. Per data from Bloomberg, last year saw a whopping 173 deals take stocks off the market, transactions worth some ~$289 billion and change.
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