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2023: Year of overpriced lithium acquisitions?

Posted on - 11 Jan 2024

Category - Finance/M&A

2023 was very much a year dominated by Western Australia, with the bulk of activity focused there, if not the most substantial deals. The biggest M&A deal of the year was the US$10.6bn all-stock merger between Allkem (ASX:AKE) and Livent (NYSE:LTHM) which looks set to create one of the world’s biggest lithium companies, with operations and projects focused on Argentina and North America. In the midst of that the Mt Cattlin operation in Western Australia increasingly looks non-core to the rest of the company, which boasts two Canadian hard rock projects, an operating brine facility in Argentina and two development...

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Australia Lithium M&A Multiple Undervalued