“In a deal led by Reliance Jio director Akash Ambani, Reliance Industries today signed an agreement for merging the digital music service Saavn with JioMusic to create a digital media platform with global reach having total value of over $1 billion,” reported PTI.
According to The Hindu, Jio will pay $104m to the existing shareholders of Saavn.
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas partner Jay Gandhi, principal associates Sayak Maity and Arun Jerome, senior associate Ankit Mishra and associates Pratik Ranjan Das and Divya Hazra acted for Saavn.
US-headquartered Gunderson Dettmer acted for Saavn.
AZB & Partners partners Ashwath Rau and Kashish Bhatia, counsel Jasmin Karkhanis and associates Armaan Patkar, Amitabh Robin Singh and Shruti Baid acted for Reliance Jio.
US firm Covington & Burling also acted for Reliance Jio.
Proskauer Rose acted for the Saavn founders.
Update 12 April 2018: The total deal value was $874m, according to an AZB press release.
Update 9 January 2019: According to a later Economic Times report, the total value of Saavn was $670m.
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This deal, arguably involves the transfer of $670m implied valuation of Reliance Jio, plus $104m ish in cash paid by Reliance, plus $100m to be invested in the coming years into the JV entity, which would have all affected share swaps, etc.
If you count all the non-cash consideration, then the value would be around $900m, but this would overvalue the value of mergers & JVs vis-a-vis vanilla takeovers by effectively doubling the values.
If you are counting purely cash consideration paid at purchase date, it's around $100m, but that is not necessarily realistic either.
One option I'm considering for league table purposes, is halving the total valuation of the JV entity / total consideration in mergers, to avoid double counting.
What do you guys think?
"As [PART] of the deal, [ADDITIONALLY], Reliance will be acquiring a partial stake from the existing shareholders of Saavn for $104 million."
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