Yihang Zhu's Blog

This is my third week in UBC as an exchange student and after two weeks learning, I’ve developed a deeper understanding of M&A. The SDB case is very impressive in that it’s my first M&A case and I’ve learned a lot from it. The first class introduced an overview of M&A. The objective of M&A is to create shareholder value through operations, finance or strategy. The professor told us to reconsider the corporate objective. She told us to introduce the legal framework of different countries since students are from all…read more

Incident Back in September, AB Inbev launched an effort to take over SABMiller PLC. After that, SABMiller’s share price jumped more than 22 per cent after confirming that rival AB InBev intends to make an offer to buy the firm.But SABMiller rejected the takeover proposal of £68.24 billion on Oct 7th. Just a few days ago, the two companies reached agreement on acquisition. AB Inbev closed in on the biggest corporate takeover in U.K. history after proposing to pay almost $106 billion for SABMiller Plc. AB Inbev agreed to pay…read more

I read an article about Google Spotlight Stories a few days ago, before that I had never heard about this thing. I downloaded the app from app store out of curiosity and it turned out that this app is amazing. This app uses the screen of your smartphone as a virtual viewfinder, giving the user the option to spin around in a 360-degree reality, allowing the viewer to explore every angle of the film by simply tilting the device around as if it were a camera or there themselves. This…read more