Mergers And Acquisitions, fact-checked

BusinessJun 16, 2026

Fox's Roku deal is about owning the streaming doorway

Fox's planned $22bn acquisition of Roku is less a bet on another library of shows than a move for the doorway through which streaming television is found, sold and measured. Fox Corporation and Roku said on Monday that they had agreed a cash-and-stock transaction that would put Fox's live news and sports, Tubi and The Roku Channel inside the same company as Roku's operating system, hardware business and advertising platform.

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BusinessJun 16, 2026

Fox's $22bn Roku deal turns distribution into the prize

Fox is buying Roku because the next scarce asset in television is not another studio library. It is the screen through which viewers find everything else.

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BusinessJun 15, 2026

Frasers' Accent bid turns a retail stake into a board test

Frasers Group's move on Australia's Accent Group is less a clean takeover premium than a pressure campaign built through the market. The UK retailer has launched an unconditional on-market bid at A$0.65 a share for the Accent stock it does not already own, while Accent's board has told shareholders to wait for its formal target statement before doing anything.

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BusinessJun 12, 2026

Frasers makes unsolicited EUR38-a-share offer for Hugo Boss

Frasers Group has launched an unsolicited voluntary public takeover offer for Hugo Boss at EUR38 a share, Hugo Boss said on 10 June, setting up a German takeover-law process that the fashion group said its boards would examine after Frasers publishes the full offer document.

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BusinessJun 12, 2026

GSK agrees $10.6bn cash acquisition of Nuvalent

GSK said on 9 June that it had agreed to acquire US oncology company Nuvalent in a cash transaction valued at $10.6 billion, paying $124 a share for a pipeline of targeted lung-cancer assets.

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