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FILE - A pedestrian walks successful beforehand of a motion astatine Zynga successful San Francisco, Tuesday, March 16, 2021. Take-Two Interactive, shaper of Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, is buying Zynga, shaper of FarmVille and Words With Friends, successful a cash-and-stock woody with an endeavor worth of astir $12.7 billion. Take-Two said Monday, Jan. 10, 2022, it anticipates $100 cardinal successful yearly outgo savings. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Take-Two Interactive, shaper of “Grand Theft Auto” and “Red Dead Redemption,” is buying Zynga, shaper of “FarmVille” and “Words With Friends,” successful a cash-and-stock woody valued astatine astir $12.7 billion.

The acquisition announced Monday would wed a powerhouse successful console gaming, Take-Two, with a mobile gaming institution with an astir cult-like following.

Zynga shareholders volition person $3.50 successful currency and $6.36 successful shares of Take-Two communal banal for each stock of Zynga outstanding banal astatine closing. The transaction is valued astatine $9.86 per stock of Zynga communal stock.

“This strategical operation brings unneurotic our best-in-class console and PC franchises, with a market-leading, diversified mobile publishing level that has a affluent past of innovation and creativity," Take-Two Chairman and CEO Strauss Zelnick said successful a prepared statement. He volition clasp those roles erstwhile the companies go one.

Take-Two anticipates the woody volition assistance bring astir mobile versions of immoderate of its console and idiosyncratic machine based games.

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Take-Two said Monday it anticipates astir $100 cardinal successful yearly outgo savings wrong the archetypal 2 years aft the transaction is complete.

Zynga CEO Frank Gibeau and its president of publishing, Bernard Kim, volition oversee the integration and day-to-day operations of the combined Zynga and T2 Mobile Games business, which volition run nether the Zynga marque arsenic its ain statement wrong the Take-Two.

Take-Two volition besides grow its committee to 10 members upon closing, adding 2 members from Zynga’s board.

The transaction includes a go-shop provision, giving Zynga 45 days to perceive alternate proposals.

The woody is expected to adjacent during the archetypal 4th of Take-Two’s fiscal 2023, ending June 30. It inactive needs support of some Take-Two and Zynga stockholders. It has received support from some companies' boards.

Shares of Zynga Inc., based successful San Francisco, jumped 52.5% to $9.15. Shares of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., based successful New York City, fell 8.7% to $150.25.

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