Tekkorp Digital, Las Vegas SPAC, Could Merge with Caliente Interactive
Tekkorp Digital Acquisition (NASDAQ:TEKK), a Las Vegas-based special resolve acquisition keep company (SPAC), is reportedly inward talks to merge with Caliente Interactive. The deal is rumored to live valued at $2.5 billion.
The transaction, if executed, would swear out as the boulevard through and through which Caliente — an online gaming unshakable with the mass of its operations in Mexico — would go a publicly traded company.
Under the terms of the deal, a $250 1000000 private investiture inward public (PIPE) would follow delivered past Spanish language broadcasting heavyweight Univision and its shareholders. Although this hasn’t been publically confirmed past the blank-check entity. Another $190 1000000 from other institutional investors would also live included.
UK-based Playtech, a shaper of gaming software, controls nearly half of Caliente through a joint venture. The British people technology company, which makes package for net casinos, web-based poker rooms, and online sports wagering, is itself a takeover target.
Playtech also provides software package for fixed-odds arcade games, online games, and provides services for mark games. It was founded inward Estonia more than ii decades ago and is headquartered inwards the Isle of Man.
Bidding War Brewing for Playtech
Prior to the Caliente SPAC venture surfacing, Playtech was a hotbed of acquisition speculation.
In October, it accepted an acquisition offer from Aristocrat Technologies, ace of the world’s largest makers of gaming machines, valuing it at 58.4 percent to its cobbler's last closure price before that proposition was revealed. While Playtech appears to favor that deal, that isn’t preventing other suitors from making overtures.
JKO Play Ltd., a syndicate led by former Formula One squad proprietor Eddie Jordan, is said to live readying an offer for Playtech, reports Sky News.
The other proposition to acquire Playtech is from Gopher Investments, the company’s second-largest shareholder. Earlier this year, Gopher attempted to win Playtech’s Finalto unit, entering into a bidding fracas with Finalto direction inward the process. Aristocrat’s offering for Playtech is conditional on the foundation that Finalto is divested to Gopher.
Another Moving Part
The cut-rate sale of Playtech to any of the aforementioned bidders and Tekkorp Digital’s efforts to merge with Caliente Interactive are break up transactions. But there are ties that likely need to be severed to put to death the blank-check deal.
City sources said that Caliente was expected to take o'er Playtech’s correct to acquire a 49 percent post inwards Calipay, its parent company, which would initiation a payment to shareholders in the UK-based company,” according to Sky News.
Assuming Calipay compels Playtech to localise it free, that could crystalize the right smart to merge with Tekkorp Digital Acquisition. It may also perhaps renew faith inwards gaming SPAC deals following a recent series of failures inward that space.
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