Lo and behold, along came Blackstone Group with a bid offering a 40% premium to the closing price.

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The bid price is 6.6% higher than the closing price on 30 December, the last business day before the two companies confiirmed they were in talks.

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Samsung's bid represents an 80% premium to SanDisk's Monday closing price.

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