Apollo Global is buying Rackspace for $4.3B
I guess it was only a matter of time before they got bought out.
It's tough to compete against one of Google, Amazon or Microsoft, competing against all 3 at the same time in an area that all three consider to be core to their future must just be cut throat!<p>It's never great for a companies employee's to be taken over by a private equity firm, if you actually find someone whose had a good experience then please let me know, but given that this is a 38% premium over what RAX was trading at when the deal leaked on august 3rd, this is almost best case for rack space employee's and given that this is an all cash transaction they should get some liquidity out of the deal!!<p>Given that the RAX board unanimously approved the deal, I'm going to guess this is going through.<p>Often when a company is brought private by a PE firm they'll combine it with other portfolio companies before spinning it back out. I don't see any relevant companies in Apollo's portfolio that could be joined to RAX.<p>If you are wondering who in wall street makes money on these types of deal, its the usual suspects. Everyone wets their beak in take over transactions:)<p>- Financing provided by Citi, Deutsche, Barclays, RBC;<p>- Goldman advised RAX, Morgan Stanley also provided services in connection w/ deal; Citi, Deutsche, Barclays, RBC advised Apollo