Brad Jacobs’ QXO offers $5 billion for GMS, threatens to go hostile
File Photo NEW YORK | BENGALURU: Billionaire Brad Jacobs’ new building-products distributor QXO made an offer on Wednesday to acquire GMS for about $5 billion in cash and said it will proceed with a hostile takeover if the company’s management rejects the proposal. This is Jacobs’s second hostile takeover threat in the building sector this year and part of his plan to turn QXO into a $50 billion revenue building-products distributor within a decade. The offer comes three months after QXO clinched an $11 billion deal to buy Beacon Roofing Supply, ending a prolonged takeover battle for the roofing company…