įurther tying into the collaboration between Merlin and eOne, select episodes of PJ Masks season 4 will feature underwater adventures. On 5 December 2019 Entertainment One announced a new multi-territory partnership with Merlin that will open an interactive PJ Masks nautical-themed trail throughout the company's Sea Life aquariums worldwide starting February 2020. eOne's multi-territory partnership with Merlin The takeover was approved by the high court in November 2019. In June 2019 the company's board agreed to recommend a takeover offer of £4.8 billion from Kirkbi, CPP Investment Board and The Blackstone Group. On 8 November 2013 Merlin floated 30% of the company on the London Stock Exchange valuing the private equity-backed company at almost £3.4bn. Blackstone's investment was by that point worth more than three and a half times what it had paid.
CVC paid a price that valued Merlin at £2.25 billion – more than six times what Merlin and Legoland together were worth when Blackstone acquired them five years earlier. Kirkbi, a Danish family trust that owns LEGO, also increased its stake, emerging as the largest shareholder, with 36%. CVC acquired another 8% from the Dubai investment fund which is no longer involved with the company, giving it 28% in all. Instead, Blackstone sold 20% of the company to the private equity firm CVC Capital Partners, reducing Blackstone's holding to 34%. Merlin had planned to go public in the early 2000s, but market turbulence postponed those plans. Deposed by the Australian Labor Party in the evening of 26 June, and replaced by Kevin Rudd, the publicity stunt drew wide attention, but received some criticism for the "disrespect" shown to the office of the Prime Minister, and the first female political leader of Australia. On 28 June 2013, Merlin Australia's Madame Tussauds in Sydney placed a wax figure of the former Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, into a mock queue of the unemployed at a Centrelink office in central Sydney. This was followed by the $140 million acquisition of Living and Leisure Australia which owned several attractions in the Asia-Pacific region including UnderWater World, Melbourne Aquarium, Falls Creek Alpine Resort, Hotham Alpine Resort, Otway Fly, Illawarra Fly, Busan Aquarium and Siam Ocean World. The sale would include Sydney Aquarium, Sydney Wildlife World, Oceanworld Manly, Sydney Tower and the Koala Gallery in Australia, in addition to Kelly Tarlton's Underwater World in New Zealand. In late 2010, it was announced that Merlin would purchase approximately A$116 million worth of entertainment attractions located in Australia and New Zealand from Village Roadshow Theme Parks and Attractions. Reports in early October 2017 indicated that Merlin Entertainments was considering a takeover of Sea World in Orlando but on 11 October, the company said it was no longer involved in such discussions. It was reopened as Legoland Florida theme park. On 15 January 2010, Merlin Entertainments bought Cypress Gardens, a defunct theme park in Winter Haven, Florida. Although the attraction sites are owned by Leslau, they are operated by Merlin based on a renewable 35-year lease. On 17 July 2007, as part of the financing for the Tussauds deal, the freeholds of Alton Towers, Thorpe Park, Warwick Castle and Madame Tussauds were sold to private investor Nick Leslau and his investment firm Prestbury, with a subsequent leaseback agreement. After the Tussauds acquisition, Dubai International Capital, the previous owner, received a 20% stake in the combined entity as well as £1.03bn in cash. In May 2007 Blackstone purchased The Tussauds Group, owner of the Madame Tussauds wax museums, for US$1.9 billion this company was merged with Merlin and has since been managed by Merlin. As part of the deal, Kirkbi A/S, the investment arm of LEGO owners, took a share in Merlin Entertainments. After the sale of Merlin to Blackstone Group, the company negotiated to buy control of Legoland in 2005 for about £250 million, then merged it with Merlin. When the Legoland theme parks was up for sale, Varney wanted to buy it but Hermes did not want to tie up more capital.
The company was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2013. Over the years, Merlin acquired Gardaland, an Italian theme park, and The Tussauds Group.
In May 2005, the company was acquired from Hermes by a division of The Blackstone Group which later started a major expansion. Apax sold the company to another financial investor, Hermes Private Equity, in 2004.
with the backing of the private equity firm Apax Partners. In December 1998, Nick Varney, Andrew Carter and the senior management team of Vardon Attractions (Vardon plc) completed a management buyout of the company to form Merlin Entertainments Group Ltd. 1.6 eOne's multi-territory partnership with Merlin.
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