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Pacific Investment Management Company LLC to acquire Columbia Property Trust, Inc.

Announced Sep 7, 2021 · Closed Dec 8, 2021

Deal value$3.90BEV $2.75B
Premium27.0%To unaffected price
EV / Adj. EBITDA—10.1x EV / Revenue
ConsiderationAll cash$19.30 per share

Transaction

Acquirer
Pacific Investment Management Company LLC
Target
Columbia Property Trust, Inc.
Buyer type
Strategic
Offer price per share
$19.30
Enterprise value
$2.75B
Status
Closed Dec 8, 2021

Deal protections

Break fee (target pays)
$86.0M · 2.2%
Reverse fee (buyer pays)
$196M · 5.0%
Go-shop
No-shop
Financing
Committed · Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley

Advisors

To the acquirer
Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank
To the target
Morgan Stanley, Eastdil Secured, JPMorgan
Morgan Stanley fee
$33.0M

Sector context · Financials

Comparable deals
52 in the prior 24 months
Premium
27.0% vs. 39.8% sector median
EV / Adj. EBITDA
Sector median 21.6x
Break fee
2.2% vs. 3.7% sector median

Timeline

  1. AnnouncedSep 7, 2021
  2. Proxy filedOct 6, 2021
  3. Definitive proxyOct 26, 2021
  4. Shareholder voteDec 2, 2021
  5. ClosedDec 8, 2021

Valuation · fairness opinions

Analyst price targets$18.00$19.50
Analyst price targets$20.60$25.98
Analyst price targets$3.07$3.50
Trading comparables$14.55$20.71
Trading comparables$18.55$22.76
Offer $19.30

Implied value per Columbia Property Trust, Inc. share by analysis, from Morgan Stanley · DCF discount rate 6.6%–7.7%.

Sources
  • 8-K (EX-99) · Sep 7, 2021
  • 8-K · Sep 7, 2021
  • DEFA14A · Sep 7, 2021

Adj. EBITDA is operating income + D&A + impairment, restructuring, deal costs and stock compensation, less any large gain on a sale, last twelve months, from the target's filings. Calculated by Castle, so it can differ from a bank's adjusted figure.

Prepared with Castle from public SEC EDGAR filings. Figures are extracted automatically; verify against the source documents. Not investment advice.