Charter Communications Deals

Earlier this year, the Japan-based diversified corporation had been working on a move to purchase the charter for $540 per common in cash and stocks, the source said. The SoftBank would have brought Sprint stocks into the new business for about $10 per stick, they said. In September, charter stocks were still trading around $402, but have since sunk.

Masayoshi Son, the SoftBank creator, had tried to make a deals to merge Sprint and T-Mobile, but discussions took place while the two sides fought over questions of government and controls. These discussions ended formally on Saturday, as both firms said that a deals could not be made. Son has also signed a contract with Charter, 27% of which is held by Liberty Media and its president John Malone.

Together, Liberty and the Newhouse familiy own almost 50 per cent of Charter's capital. Liberty's wideband operations would have turned into the new business, the springs said.

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<font color="#ffff00">Charter Communications Inc. CHTR is again in the limelight of the M&A as it has resumed discussions with dealer SoftBank (OTCPK:SFTBY) (led by Masayoshi Son, the Japan telecommunication mogul) on a possible M&A. The SoftBank has burned cash and an unsatiable craving for deals as it has been very actively trying to find an response to increase the outlook of sprint (S) (Sprint is a SoftBank subsidiary) as it is seen as a straggler among the big 4 telecoms firms in the US. Investigating the detail of the last few SoftBank M&A deals could help us realize how quickly the business could develop.

SoftBank's overviews are not taken as seriously by the markets as the Charter's share prices show, but I wouldn't expect one of the dealmaking king's to have a shot at a big charter shareholder point number. SoftBank's initial choice of Charter last July was to find a fusion party that would lead to a stand-alone, listed unit that would be Sprint and Charter encapsulated and directly owned by SoftBank, as Sprint is now.

At first Charter rejected any fusion scenarios, and SoftBank soon responded with a more aggressively targeted offer for Charter a few and a half years later. While still in secret secrecy, this transaction focused on charter, which was purchased for $540 per stake, in bar and stocks, and SoftBank would have brought Sprint stocks into the new corporation at $10 per stake.

Pretty good for Charter, which was trading at around $400 per stock at the peak of fusion trading. The SoftBank received the stake from John Malone, whose Liberty Media Co. owned approximately 27% of Charter's stock, but did not convince Charter's senior executives (notably CEO Tom Rutledge, who held stock that would only come into the market if Charter's stock reached $564 per share).

Tom Rutledge, Chief Executive Officer, is convinced that Charter's shares will exceed the $564 mark over the next four years if he makes a transaction below that mark. SoftBank had three international financial institutions on Board before the deals finally collapsed and, according to a CNBC account on the deals, was very pleased with the way the bank's accounts had been raised.

Once it reached the general audience, the whole scene took about a weeks to a weeks and a half until SoftBank was ready and then turned its attention to a possible Sprint/Dish (DISH) combination or Sprint/T-Mobile (TMUS) connection as it frantically tries to find a Sprint match to better rival the US telecommunications behemoth.

SoftBank has been pursuing a much more time-consuming proposed fusion between Sprint and T-Mobile since the charter business collapsed. T-Mobile is a Deutsche Telekom subsidiary), which turned out to be the major shareholder of SoftBank, with John Legere, CEO of T-Mobile, managing the company, and Masayoshi Son and Tim Hostages of Deutsche Telekom acting as co-chairmen of the management team.

A major reason why I and others believe this deals collapsed was that Son would not get the major interest he is looking for in a sprint combining Deutsche Telekom's insistence on a major interest in the new company. Although the firms would have identified the inventory for inventory detail and questions of control, the new unit would still have had to resolve anti-trust questions with the Ministry of Justice.

Well, let's take a look at what the possible charter and sprint mergers might look like today, as both shares have experienced a significant inventory move since the mergers in late-summer. You can see that both shares have had a difficult period since the failure of the mergers last year. There are several implications for the business that is currently possible.

Firstly, it will be more difficult for SoftBank to throw Sprint shares at $10 per shares when the shares are currently traded at almost half that value, at least until such time as transaction detail emerges that could trigger a rise in the prices of the major shares in the transaction. In addition, we must bear in mind that $540 per shares in bar and shares is unlikely to be enough to make a transaction for charter stockholders (although this is a 57% bonus on the charter's recent closed price).

This magical figure seems to be around $564 per ounce (in bar and stock), which Liberty Media would most likely bring on Board, along with Charter CEO Tom Rutledge, who could pay out large sums without having to wait years for Charter's shares to appreciate his in the monetary option. Given that three major international financial institutions are supporting SoftBank's previous acquisitions targets, what could the firm have in its back pockets to obtain the funding it needs to fund this additional $24 per upturn?

Have a look at how the SoftBank's significant shareholding in Alibaba shares more than more than doubled last year, together with very pleasing profits since even the end of the last Summer, when the first charter contract was signed. SoftBank's present favorite could be the ass up the sleeve that SoftBank needs to raise the extra funding it needs to bring Charter on to the ship with a full takeover.

Again, charter is potentially the goal of SoftBank's aggressively M&A deals as the firm struggles to find a proper match for its Sprint affiliate. In my opinion, the charter markets underestimate the possibility of another aggressively offered offer from SoftBank, as Charter's share is currently traded at a 64% rebate on a possible $564 spot and share transaction.

I think the whole world also underestimates Masayoshi Son's capacity to do business when he really wants something. Recently I purchased a small interest in Charter because of the possible home run side of a possible offer from SoftBank. I will reassess my stance if the offer or negotiation never materializes and consider whether the CEO's objective of achieving a share performance of $564 over the next 4 years is feasible or whether it is simply timely to continue.

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