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Silver Lake Is Said to Consider Acquiring Yahoo, Then Selling Asian Assets
Private-equity investor Silver Lake is considering a bid for Yahoo! Inc.,
the Web company that ousted Chief Executive Officer Carol Bartz, two people
involved in the deliberations said.
As part of a deal, Silver Lake would sell off Yahoo’s Asian assets and then
attempt to turn around the main operations or find a buyer for that
business, said the people, who asked not to be named because the matter is
private. Representatives of Silver Lake have approached other companies to
gauge interest in purchasing Yahoo’s main business, one person said.
Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock fired Bartz last week after her efforts to fend
off Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. fell short. Asian assets that include a 43
percent stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., combined with a slumping share
price, make the company a possible takeover candidate, said analysts at
Deutsche Bank Securities and such investors as Di Zhou, an analyst at
Thornburg Investment Management.
Kim Rubey, a spokeswoman for Yahoo, and Gordon Goldstein, a spokesman for
Silver Lake, didn’t immediately return phone messages seeking comment.
Yahoo’s board met yesterday to hear a presentation from investment bank
Allen & Co. on the company’s options and deliberate the search for a
successor to Bartz, another person familiar with the matter said earlier
this week.
A range of companies have been preparing possible bids for Yahoo and have
gotten in touch with the company’s board in recent days, the technology
blog AllThingsDigital reported this week. Silver Lake is among potential
buyers, it reported.
Alibaba, Softbank
A private-equity company would likely seek a buyer for Yahoo’s stakes in
Alibaba and Yahoo Japan Corp. (4689), which according to Gabelli & Co.,
account for about 80 percent of the company’s market value. Alibaba Group
Chairman Jack Ma tried to repurchase the stake from Bartz and was rebuffed.
Other Yahoo assets include e-mail, instant messaging and news and
information portals that generate revenue from advertising and, according to
ComScore Inc., were viewed by 674 million people in July. Yahoo also owns
the No. 2 U.S. Web- search engine, after Google’s.
Yahoo’s directors are under pressure from investors such as Third Point LLC
, which urged the board to resign last week after buying a 5.2 percent stake
. The investment firm said directors erred in spurning a takeover bid from
Microsoft Corp. in 2008 and hired a CEO who wasn’t up to the job.
The “board of directors has made a number of decisions that have directly
harmed the company and resulted in a stock price far below the company’s
intrinsic value,” New York-based Third Point said in a filing.
To contact the reporters on this story: Brian Womack in San Francisco at
B******[email protected]; Cristina Alesci in New York at [email protected]
net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Tom Giles at [email protected]
bloomberg.net
Private-equity investor Silver Lake is considering a bid for Yahoo! Inc.,
the Web company that ousted Chief Executive Officer Carol Bartz, two people
involved in the deliberations said.
As part of a deal, Silver Lake would sell off Yahoo’s Asian assets and then
attempt to turn around the main operations or find a buyer for that
business, said the people, who asked not to be named because the matter is
private. Representatives of Silver Lake have approached other companies to
gauge interest in purchasing Yahoo’s main business, one person said.
Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock fired Bartz last week after her efforts to fend
off Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. fell short. Asian assets that include a 43
percent stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., combined with a slumping share
price, make the company a possible takeover candidate, said analysts at
Deutsche Bank Securities and such investors as Di Zhou, an analyst at
Thornburg Investment Management.
Kim Rubey, a spokeswoman for Yahoo, and Gordon Goldstein, a spokesman for
Silver Lake, didn’t immediately return phone messages seeking comment.
Yahoo’s board met yesterday to hear a presentation from investment bank
Allen & Co. on the company’s options and deliberate the search for a
successor to Bartz, another person familiar with the matter said earlier
this week.
A range of companies have been preparing possible bids for Yahoo and have
gotten in touch with the company’s board in recent days, the technology
blog AllThingsDigital reported this week. Silver Lake is among potential
buyers, it reported.
Alibaba, Softbank
A private-equity company would likely seek a buyer for Yahoo’s stakes in
Alibaba and Yahoo Japan Corp. (4689), which according to Gabelli & Co.,
account for about 80 percent of the company’s market value. Alibaba Group
Chairman Jack Ma tried to repurchase the stake from Bartz and was rebuffed.
Other Yahoo assets include e-mail, instant messaging and news and
information portals that generate revenue from advertising and, according to
ComScore Inc., were viewed by 674 million people in July. Yahoo also owns
the No. 2 U.S. Web- search engine, after Google’s.
Yahoo’s directors are under pressure from investors such as Third Point LLC
, which urged the board to resign last week after buying a 5.2 percent stake
. The investment firm said directors erred in spurning a takeover bid from
Microsoft Corp. in 2008 and hired a CEO who wasn’t up to the job.
The “board of directors has made a number of decisions that have directly
harmed the company and resulted in a stock price far below the company’s
intrinsic value,” New York-based Third Point said in a filing.
To contact the reporters on this story: Brian Womack in San Francisco at
B******[email protected]; Cristina Alesci in New York at [email protected]
net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Tom Giles at [email protected]
bloomberg.net
