M&A

 Mergers & Acquisitions News (M&A)

• Italy's UniCredit secured 48% of shares in Germany's $50B-listed Commerzbank as its hostile takeover nears endgame Reuters

• Blue Owl will acquire 12 Spire hospitals in UK from Malaysia's Employees Provident Fund for $1.7B Bloomberg

• Dream Finders Homes boosted its takeover offer for Beazer Homes by 24% to $875M Bloomberg

• PE firm Frazier Healthcare Partners will acquire software business MatrixCare from health tech firm ResMed for $490M cash Reuters

• Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank will take a 15% stake in New Zealand-based infrastructure investor Morrison Bloomberg

• UK grocery chain Tesco is exploring a sale of its CEE operations Reuters

• Blockchain tech firm Perpetuals.com is in talks to acquire the core business of Trump-backed AI Financial for $15M Wall Street Journal

• CVC acquired music distributor DistroKid Billboard

• Shore Capital Partners acquired benefits technology ThrivePass Dealroom

• Apollo trumps Castlelake to buy Easyjet for £5.7bn Financial Times