Elliott helped take Citrix private for $16.5B to finish its SaaS shift
Vista and Elliott's Evergreen bought Citrix for $16.5 billion in cash, giving the slow-moving software firm cover to complete its cloud transition.
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2,000 CASOS PUBLICADOS · ACTUALIZADOS REGULARMENTEBank Permata cut NPLs from 8.8% to 4.7% and sold 89% to Bangkok Bank
After a loss-making 2016, Standard Chartered and Astra cleaned Permata's loan book; it returned to profit and Bangkok Bank bought 89.12% at 1.63-1.77x book.
Leer el casoKering revived Balenciaga via Demna's streetwear-flavoured disruption.
Kering appointed Demna at Balenciaga in 2015; the house grew past €1B in revenue by 2019 as its disruptive style went viral.
Leer el casoShiseido's first outsider CEO ran a five-year succession plan to give it back
Shiseido broke 142 years of insider rule to hire Coca-Cola veteran Uotani in 2014; he hit ¥1tn sales, then staged a five-year handover to an insider.
Leer el casoKawasaki revived its dormant 1924 Meguro motorcycle brand with the retro K3 and S1
Meguro, absorbed into Kawasaki in 1964, returned in 2021 with the W800-based K3 and 232cc S1, still built for 2026.
Leer el casoCalbee let PepsiCo and an outsider CEO rebuild Japan's snack king
Hiroshima's Calbee hired outsiders (2005), took PepsiCo's 20% (2009), and lifted its margin from 1.4% to records — ¥322.6B sales by FY2025.
Leer el casoElliott's CDK 13D led to margin targets and board seats; Brookfield bought it for $8.3B
Elliott's 2015 13D forced cost targets and board seats at CDK; in 2022 Brookfield took the dealership-software firm private for $8.3B.
Leer el casoPG&E emerged from its 2001 bankruptcy in 2004 by paying creditors in full
After three years in Chapter 11, PG&E funded a settlement with a $6.7B bond issue, paid $8.4B of claims and cut customer rates $800M.
Leer el casoClearly Canadian came back through crowdfunding after a decade off shelves
A dead national beverage brand was bought for a promise and relaunched on fan pre-orders.
Leer el casoEmami's founders quit executive roles and pay, handing the FMCG group to their sons
In 2022 Emami founders R.S. Agarwal and R.S. Goenka stepped out of executive roles — for no pay — and promoted their sons to run the FMCG group.
Leer el casoTold McDonald's swallowed every rival it faced, a Manila burger stand went Filipino
Facing McDonald's 1981 entry into the Philippines, a young burger chain built a menu around sweet spaghetti and fried chicken Filipinos actually preferred.
Leer el casoBrazil's Natura bought Body Shop and Avon to go global, then unwound the empire
Natura spent €1B on Body Shop (2017) and $3.7B on Avon (2020) to go global; by 2025 both were sold — one for a fifth of the price, one for £1
Leer el casoElliott's Evergreen and Francisco Partners took LogMeIn private for $4.3B
After Elliott pressed for change, its private-equity arm joined Francisco Partners to buy LogMeIn at $86.05 a share, a 25% premium.
Leer el casoLee Enterprises' seven-week Chapter 11 starts a decade-long Buffett lifeline
Lee Enterprises used a prepackaged 2011 bankruptcy to force lenders into a refinancing; Buffett then financed it twice and sold it his own newspapers.
Leer el casoMcDonald's doubled down on the value menu in 2008 and grew while rivals fell
In the 2008 downturn, McDonald's value menu, breakfast and chicken drove global same-store sales up 7.7% while rivals slumped.
Leer el casoB. Braun made Anna Maria Braun its first female, sixth-generation CEO
In April 2019 the 39-year-old daughter of a former CEO became the first woman and first sixth-generation member to run the family-owned med-tech group.
Leer el casoTanishq bet on 18-carat gold, lost ₹150 crore, and won buyers back with an X-ray machine
India's Titan launched Tanishq in low-purity 18-carat gold buyers didn't trust, then fixed years of losses with a purity-testing Karatmeter in every store.
Leer el casoAmérica Móvil cut debt in the 2001 telecom crash and became Latin America's top carrier
Slim's wireless arm trimmed net debt from over $4B to $3.3B while rivals collapsed, then 2003 profit jumped 221% on 43.7M users.
Leer el casoLG Chem won the Chevy Volt battery deal in 2008; its US rival went bankrupt
GM picked Korea's LG Chem over A123 Systems to power the Volt; four years on, the government-backed US challenger was bankrupt and LG Chem had the market.
Leer el casoEight banks' ₹10,000 crore rescue turned Yes Bank from a 2020 collapse to steady profit
SBI and seven banks injected ₹10,000 crore after a deposit run; Yes Bank swung from a ₹3,462 crore loss to ₹2,406 crore FY25 profit.
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