Why Jack Dorsey's Square paid a record $39 billion for Afterpay
- Written by Lien Duong, Senior Lecturer in School Accounting of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Curtin University
The A$39 billion (US$29 billion) that Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s digital payments company Square is paying to acquire Australian upstart payments outfit Afterpay is the biggest takeover deal in Australian corporate history.
It surpasses the A$32 billion European commercial real estate giant Unibail-Rodamco agreed to pay for Frank...