Brookfield Business Partners enters partnership to acquire Nielsen in $16B deal
Brookfield Business Partners (BBU) announced it has entered into a partnership to acquire Nielsen Holdings plc (NLSN) in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $16B.
Nielsen Holdings operates as a measurement and data analytics company worldwide. The company provides viewership and listening data, and analytics principally to media publishers and marketers, and advertising agencies for television, computer, mobile, CTV, digital, and listening platforms.
The companies said, investment highlights include, “Market-leading position. Nielsen is a global leader in audience measurement and a trusted partner to its customers across the entire media ecosystem.
The Company has more than 50 years of statistically significant historical data and its scale is unmatched by competitors.
Nielsen’s measurement data underpins the $100+ billion video and audio advertising markets and its measurement data is the established industry standard by which video and audio advertising spend transacts. Resilient performance and outlook.
The Company’s history of consistent growth is driven by its valued offering and longstanding customer relationships.
Nielsen’s scale and existing market position should support the Company’s ability to consistently grow its measurement business.
Value creation potential. Nielsen is well positioned to be the leader in cross-media measurement as audience viewership behavior continues to evolve.
The development and adoption of Nielsen ONE, Nielsen’s cross-media measurement service, will deliver a unified measure of consumer viewership across all media and support the Company’s growth strategy.”
Brookfield will invest approximately $2.65B by way of preferred equity, convertible into 45% of Nielsen’s common equity. Brookfield will be actively involved in the Company’s governance.
Brookfield Business Partners expects to invest approximately $600M, and the balance of Brookfield’s investment will be funded from institutional partners.
Prior to or following closing, a portion of Brookfield Business Partners’ commitment may be syndicated to other institutional investors.
The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in the second half of 2022.
NLSN is up $4.58 to $26.81.
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