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Mergers & Acquisitions News (M&A) A consortium of telecom groups Bouygues Telecom , Iliad , and Orange are in advanced talks to acquire SFR , the French business of indebted telecoms Altice , at a potential $23B valuation Finimize Sazerac offered to acquire spirits giant Brown-Forman for $15B, crashing rival Pernod Ricard 's merger talks Law360 Spanish solar firm Solaria is in talks to join a Spain -backed consortium of Telefónica and ACS seeking to develop a $4
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Apr 171 min read


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Mergers & Acquisitions News (M&A) ESCO Technologies to Acquire Megger Group Limited for $2.35 Billion Markets Insider Shell in Advanced Talks to Sell 600 South African Petrol Stations to ADNOC for ~$1 Billion Reuters Skild AI Acquires Zebra Technologies’ Robotics Automation Business and Symmetry Platform Business Wire Organigram Closes Strategic Acquisition of Sanity Group for €107.3 Million Business Wire One Call Completes Acquisition of Data Dimensions to
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Apr 161 min read


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Mergers & Acquisitions News (M&A) GFL Environmental agreed to acquire Canada's Secure Waste Infrastructure Corp . in a $4.6B mostly stock deal, including debt MSN A consortium of I Squared Capital and Blackstone are seeking to acquire German media group Ströer 's core advertising business at a potential $4B valuation; the consortium may seek to LBO the entirety of $2.2B-listed Ströer as well PrivateEquityWire Mattress firm Somnigroup agreed to acquire bedding s
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Apr 152 min read


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Mergers & Acquisitions News (M&A) Sazerac joined the race against alcohol giant Pernod Ricard to acquire $14B-listed peer Brown-Forman Bloomberg European PE firm CVC is in talks with Groupe Bruxelles Lambert , SWFs ADIA and GIC , and Canada's La Caisse to help fund its $12.7B LBO of Italian drugmaker Recordati Bloomberg Ares will take-private retail-focused Whitestone REIT in a $1.7B all-cash deal AiInvest Consumer goods giant Unilever acquired gummy supp
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Apr 141 min read


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Mergers & Acquisitions News (M&A) CD&R to Acquire Sealed Air in a Landmark $10.3 Billion Take-Private Deal Bloomberg Empire Co. to Acquire Québec Food Retailer Mayrand to Bolster Discount Segment BNN Bloomberg Galp Acquires 351 MW Wind Asset Portfolio in Spain for €410 Million to Speed Up Green Shift Reuters Ambienta Acquires Majority Stake in Plant-Based Dairy Producer The Bridge for €4.3 Billion Expansion Reuters USA Rare Earth and InfraVia Acquire Strateg
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Apr 101 min read


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Mergers & Acquisitions News (M&A) Apollo Global Management to acquire UScellular’s wireless operations for $4.4 Billion Reuters SpaceX and xAI merger confirmed as the largest M&A transaction in history per Q1 league tables Bloomberg Eli Lilly to acquire Centessa Pharmaceuticals for approximately $7.8 Billion to bolster its primary care and oncology pipeline Reuters Sumitomo Corporation finalizes its landmark acquisition of Air Lease Corporation Bloomberg Tho
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Apr 91 min read


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Mergers & Acquisitions News (M&A) Neurocrine Biosciences agreed to acquire metabolic disease-focused Soleno Therapeutics for $2.9B cash at a 34% premium CNBC Malaysian conglomerate Sunway is abandoning its $2.7B takeover bid of IJM Corp after failing to secure shareholder support Bloomberg PE firm Energy Capital Partners has agreed to re-acquire nuclear services firm EnergySolutions from TriArtisan Capital Advisors at a $2B valuation Financial Times Win
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Apr 81 min read


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Mergers & Acquisitions News (M&A) Bureau Veritas Buys Irish Quality Control Business Lotusworks Bloomberg Neurocrine to Buy Soleno Therapeutics for $2.9 Billion Bloomberg Buyout Firm ECP to Re-Acquire Nuclear Services Firm EnergySolutions Bloomberg Danantara Pushes Asset Manager Merger With $159 Million Deal Bloomberg OpenAI Buys Tech Talk Show TBPN in Rare Move Into Media Bloomberg Nvidia acquisition of SchedMD sparks worry among AI specialists about software a
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Apr 71 min read


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Mergers & Acquisitions News (M&A) Food distributor Sysco Corp . will acquire peer Jetro Restaurant Depot in a $29.1B cash-and-stock deal, including debt Reuters Apollo is nearing a deal to acquire private jet fixed-base operator Atlantic Aviation from KKR at a $10B valuation Bloomberg Industrial plant builder SMS Group and PE firm Altor Equity Partners are exploring a $2.3B sale of German industrial services company Kaefer Bloomberg Uber agreed to acquire
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Apr 11 min read


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Mergers & Acquisitions News (M&A) Sysco to Acquire Jetro Restaurant Depot for $29.1 Billion to Expand into Cash-and-Carry Segment Reuters Unilever in Advanced Talks to Merge Food Business with McCormick in $30+ Billion Reverse Morris Trust Reuters Sun Life Financial Completes Buyouts of BGO and Crescent; Plans to Acquire Bell Partners for $350 Million Investing.com Danone Finalizes €1 Billion Acquisition of Complete Nutrition Brand Huel to Expand Functional Port
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Mar 311 min read


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Mergers & Acquisitions News (M&A) KKR , BlackRock -owned GIP , Ardian , and GIC -backed Vauban Infra Fibre are bidders for a controlling stake in telecom group Altice France 's superfast broadband network XpFibre , which could fetch an over $10B valuation Financial Times Pharma giant Merck agreed to acquire leukemia-focused Terns Pharmaceuticals in a $6.7B cash deal at a 50% premium Reuters Brookfield and Canada's La Caisse agreed to acquire Canadian renewable e
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Mar 281 min read


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Mergers & Acquisitions News (M&A) Estée Lauder and Puig in Talks to Merge, Creating $40 Billion Luxury Beauty Powerhouse Reuters Victory Capital Drops Bid to Acquire Janus Henderson After Failure to Reach Negotiated Terms Bloomberg Stonepeak-Backed Group Nears Agreement to Take Malaysia’s Yinson Private in RM 8 Billion Deal Bloomberg Sembcorp Industries Shortlists Banks for $2.1 Billion Loan to Fund Alinta Energy Acquisition Bloomberg Advent Inte
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Mar 261 min read


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Mergers & Acquisitions News (M&A) Indian Oil Buys First Iranian LPG Since 2018 as Crunch Worsens Bloomberg Blackstone’s BCRED Sells $450 Million Private Credit CLO Bloomberg KKR to acquire Nothing Bundt Cakes for over $2 billion Reuters Infosys to acquire US firms Optimum Healthcare IT for $465 million, Stratus for $95 million Reuters MiQ Acquires Adsmovil, Creating Largest Independent Programmatic Offering In Latin America Business Wire Fullbay Acquires Pitstop t
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Mar 261 min read


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Mergers & Acquisitions News (M&A) Water treatment giant Ecolab is nearing a deal to acquire data center cooling company CoolIT Systems from KKR for $4.5B-$5B Yahoo.Finance $3B-listed German semiconductor group Elmos is exploring a sale Reuters Industrials conglomerate 3M and Bain Capital agreed to acquire Madison Fire & Rescue for $2B Yahoo.Finance Uber will invest $1.25B in $20B-listed EV maker Rivian in a robotaxi push Reuters Genco Shipping & Trading' s boar
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Mar 231 min read


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Mergers & Acquisitions News (M&A) Nexstar Media Group Closes Acquisition of TEGNA Inc. After DOJ and FCC Clearance Reuters Klarna’s Head of M&A and Three Other Senior Executives Depart Amid Post-IPO Stock Volatility Bloomberg Allianz and Sun Life Financial Prepare Bids for HSBC’s $2 Billion Singapore Insurance Unit Bloomberg Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Discovery Merger Faces New Hurdles Over Geopolitical Investment Risks Reuters Sembcorp Industries See
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Mar 201 min read


Venture Capital
Venture Capital (VC) News ORO Labs raised a $100M Series C led by Brighton Park Capital and Goldman Sachs Alternatives VC Daily Standard Template Labs raised a $49M seed round led by ICONIQ and CRV VC Daily BusRight raised a $30M venture round led by Volition Capital VC Daily Condor Software raised a $24M Series A led by Insight Partners VC Daily Sequen raised a $16M Series A led by White Star Capital and Threshold Ventures AlleyWatch Multiply ra
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Mar 191 min read


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Mergers & Acquisitions News (M&A) Microsoft Weighs Legal Action Against OpenAI and Amazon Over $50 Billion Cloud Computing Deal Reuters DOJ Antitrust Head Says Paramount–Warner Bros Discovery Deal Review is Not Influenced by Politics Reuters Blackstone Nears $2.5 Billion Deal to Acquire Champions Group in Services Sector Push Bloomberg Evernorth Files for $1 Billion SPAC Merger with Armada Acquisition Corp. II to Go Public The Block River Global Reaches Agre
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Mar 191 min read


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Mergers & Acquisitions News (M&A) Mastercard to Acquire Stablecoin Infrastructure Start-up BVNK for Up to $1.8 Billion Bloomberg Victory Capital Sweetens $8.6 Billion Cash-and-Stock Bid for Janus Henderson Reuters Canadian Billionaire Stephen Smith Reaches Agreement to Buy 26.9% Stake in The Economist Group Bloomberg Ant Group Secures Regulatory Approval for Acquisition of Hong Kong Brokerage Bloomberg Société Générale Reaches Deal to Sell Retail Business of
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Mar 181 min read


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Mergers & Acquisitions News (M&A) KRAKacquisition , a Kraken-linked SPAC, targets crypto firms valued up to $10B Decrypt Fintech platform Ramp acquires payments infrastructure firm Billhop Bloomberg Glencore hopes rising coal prices will bring Rio Tinto back to the table for talks to merge and form a $240B mining giant Reuters Film producer Steve Tisch and his two siblings are transferring their $10.3B stake in MLB team New York Giants to trusts for their
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Mar 171 min read


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Mergers & Acquisitions News (M&A) Volkswagen is requiring Porsche to take 10% of its diesel engine unit Everllence as Blackstone , EQT , CVC , Advent , Brookfield , Bain Capital , and GIC advance to the second round of bidding for a 51% stake at a potential $9.25B valuation DW Oracle 's 15% stake in the TikTok US JV is worth ~$2B Reuters UK real estate broker Savills agreed to acquire real estate advisory Eastdil Secured at a $1.1B valuation, including debt Bloomber
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Mar 161 min read
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