Company Comment
Buyout offers take back seat amid changing valuations
Genfin’s offer for Mettle has fallen through and Housatonic has delayed Metrofile deal
01 April 2020 - 18:25
It was inevitable that buyout deals pitched before the real effect of the Covid-19 pandemic hit the equity markets would be re-examined through a darker value filter.
So no real surprise then that financial services boutique Mettle Investments announced this week that its buyout offer from Genfin had unceremoniously fallen through...
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