News Analysis: When deal genius fails: Hard lessons from 3G to SoftBank
They’re the big dogs of modern mergers and acquisitions — rapacious deal makers who have devoured mighty corporations, bankrolled young disrupters and upended entire industries. And they’re not looking so tough anymore.
Valeant Pharmaceuticals, the ill-fated Canadian company that gobbled up drugmakers, drove up prices and fueled outrage over high prescription costs. That’s worth remembering at a moment when the financial world is struggling to come to grips with the yawning gap between what the pros think companies are worth and what those companies actually fetch on public markets .Not long ago, 3G, co-founded by billionaire Jorge Paulo Lemann, seemed unstoppable.
Former management consultant Michael Pearson had a similarly radical idea at Valeant: that drugmakers like itself had no business actually making drugs.Instead, it would borrow money to acquire rivals, dramatically increase the price of their treatments and fire almost everyone. Rinse, repeat. Valeant’s ambition peaked in 2014 when it teamed up with activist investor Bill Ackman to mount an audacious $54-billion takeover offer for Allergan, the maker of Botox.
The scale of these blowups, so starkly at odds with SoftBank’s recent esteemed status, has dislocated the U.S. IPO market as investors and would-be public companies look skeptically at one another across a widening gulf of value perception.
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