Atos wants to buy security vendor Gemalto for €4.3 billion

Gemalto, which specialises in SIM-card technology among other things, has received an unsolicited take-over bid from French IT giant Atos.
Atos is offering €46 per share, which is apparently a 42% premium on the Gemalto share price immediately before the bid was made. Despite it being unsolicited the bid is said to be ‘friendly’ (as opposed to hostile) because the two CEOs have had a nice, civilised chat about it.
“On November 28, 2017 Atos submitted its Proposal, valid un