M&A news archive: page 16 of 31
Every deal story we have published, newest first, with value and status. Updated every morning.
- Authentic Brands agrees deal for Lee jeans worth up to US$1bnKontoor is selling Lee to concentrate on Wrangler and Helly Hansen; Authentic will turn Lee into a licensing business.
- TruFin agrees £125m sale of Balatro publisher PlaystackThe owner of Fandom and GameSpot adds an indie publisher, and TruFin turns a seven-year games bet into a capital return for shareholders.
- Equity Residential and AvalonBay agree apartment REIT mergerThe all-stock combination created the largest US apartment owner, which began trading as Vivmark Residential in August.
- Swiss Life agrees to buy German adviser network TELISThe deal lifts Swiss Life's German advisory force to about 8,000 and gives it broker platforms for the first time.
- Medtronic agrees US$650m deal for SPR TherapeuticsThe device maker is adding a temporary nerve-stimulation therapy that lets doctors treat chronic pain earlier, without a permanent implant.
- BASF agrees to sell silicates business to PQThe German chemicals group continues to prune its Care Chemicals portfolio, handing a Düsseldorf plant to a US specialist.
- GHO and CBC agree merger to form US$21bn healthcare investorThe deal joins a London-based European healthcare buyout specialist with Asia's largest healthcare-dedicated asset manager.
- Analog Devices agrees US$1.5bn deal for Empower SemiconductorADI is buying point-of-load power technology as power density becomes the bottleneck for AI computing.
- Mistral AI buys Austria's Emmi AI to push into industrial engineeringEurope's best-known AI start-up is adding physics simulation models to win aerospace, automotive and chip customers, and opening an office in Linz.
- Hull Street Energy buys FirstLight's US hydro fleet from PSPThe deal makes the power-focused buyout firm owner of New England's largest energy storage plant.
- Boston Scientific invests US$1.5bn in MiRus with TAVR buyout optionThe deal gives Boston Scientific a staged path to owning a nickel-free, balloon-expandable aortic valve now in a pivotal trial.
- Ondas buys Israel's Omnisys for US$200m in sharesThe US drone and autonomy group adds battlefield orchestration software in its latest Israeli defence acquisition.
- NextEra and Dominion agree all-stock utility mergerThe tie-up would put about 10 million customer accounts in Florida, Virginia and the Carolinas under one owner as data-centre power demand surges.
- Critical Metals moves to absorb European LithiumThe all-share scheme collapses a cross-shareholding and hands Critical Metals 100% of Greenland's Tanbreez rare earths deposit.
- Mehiläinen agrees to buy Aleris from TritonThe Finnish provider is adding Scandinavia's specialist care network, betting on outpatient, digitally led healthcare across the Nordics.
- Publicis agrees US$2.5bn deal for LiveRampThe advertising group is buying the neutral data-collaboration network it already partnered with, and raising its medium-term targets.
- Kaga Electronics wins control of Shinko Shoji after drawn-out bidThe electronics trader held its ¥1,580 price and lowered its acceptance hurdle to secure a 72% stake in its smaller rival.
- CCC takes classifieds site Jimoty private for about ¥14bnThe Japanese retail and data-marketing group is folding the local secondhand-goods and jobs platform into its regional revitalisation push.
- Akamai agrees US$205m deal for browser-security firm LayerXThe content-delivery and security group wants to see, and govern, what employees type into generative AI tools.
- AMG agrees £57m takeover of Zinnwald LithiumThe Dutch-listed critical materials group is taking full control of a German lithium project it has funded since 2023.
- Intuitive Machines agrees £37m deal for Goonhilly Earth StationThe Houston lunar lander maker is buying the Cornish ground station that supported its own Moon missions.
- Siemens agrees to buy core MERMEC rail businessesThe deal adds Italian mainline signalling and a fleet of diagnostic trains to Siemens Mobility, with Matera becoming its diagnostics hub.
- Brookfield buys air cargo agent WFC from EQT and PAIThe deal, reported at about $1.2bn, hands a roll-up of 20 cargo sales agencies to Brookfield's private equity arm.
- Bharti Airtel swaps INR282bn of shares for bigger Airtel Africa stakeThe cashless deal folds a promoter-group holding into the listed Indian parent, taking its effective control of the African operator to about 79%.
- Akatsuki takes control of Sunny Side Up in IP mergerThe games company and the PR group plan to rebrand as a joint holding company under co-representative directors.
- Vossloh agrees £29m takeover of CordelThe German track components maker doubles down on digital rail with LiDAR inspection technology already used by Amtrak and Network Rail.
- Equinox Gold and Orla Mining agree all-share mergerThe combination creates Canada's second-largest gold producer, anchored by Greenstone, Valentine and Musselwhite.
- Aichi and San ju San abandon ¥11.6tn regional bank mergerFour months after agreeing to combine, the two Tokai lenders split over the shape of the holding company.
- Röko buys Dutch rotisserie maker Fri-JadoThe Swedish perpetual owner makes its fifth Dutch platform acquisition, giving Torqx an exit after eight years.
- Elis buys Interlaken laundry Wäsche PerleThe bolt-on deepens the French group's Swiss hospitality network in one of the country's main tourist regions.
