M&A news archive: page 18 of 31
Every deal story we have published, newest first, with value and status. Updated every morning.
- MSA Safety agrees US$555m deal for Norway's AutronicaThe Pittsburgh-area safety group adds a scaled fire and gas systems business for energy, maritime and infrastructure projects.
- Loomis agrees SEK 4bn deal for Peru's HermesThe Swedish cash handler is buying CVC's Peruvian armoured-transport business to expand in Latin America.
- Expro agrees NOK2bn deal for Enhanced DrillingThe Houston-based services group adds managed pressure drilling to win earlier roles in offshore well design.
- GoMore buys Getaround Europe to form largest peer-to-peer car-sharing networkThe Danish platform takes over Getaround's French-led European arm as its US parent winds down.
- PAI and Fondo Italiano agree to buy Mecaer Aviation GroupThe deal recycles an Italian aerospace supplier between two Fondo Italiano funds, with PAI joining as co-lead buyer.
- Hubbell agrees US$3bn deal for NSI IndustriesThe utility and electrical products maker is buying Bridgeport fittings, Polaris connectors and Tork timers to ride electrification and data-centre demand.
- Lattice agrees US$1.65bn deal for AMIThe low-power FPGA maker is pairing its control chips with the firmware that manages cloud and AI servers.
- Cisco buys Astrix to police AI agents' credentialsThe networking group is paying a reported $400m for an Israeli start-up that tracks the keys and tokens autonomous software uses inside companies.
- SAP agrees to buy Freiburg AI lab Prior LabsGermany's software champion is betting that models built for tables, not text, will decide enterprise AI, and is pledging more than €1bn to prove it.
- GameStop bids US$55.5bn for eBayRyan Cohen's video-game retailer wants a company several times its size, promising US$2bn of cost cuts and using its 1,600 stores for authentication and fulfilment.
- UCB agrees deal worth up to US$2.2bn for Candid TherapeuticsThe Belgian drugmaker is adding T-cell engagers designed to reset the immune system in autoimmune disease.
- Mittals and Poonawalla agree US$1.65bn deal for Rajasthan RoyalsThe steel family's first major sports investment sets a new benchmark for IPL franchise values after an earlier bid collapsed.
- ArchiMed agrees up to US$1.1bn take-private of EsperionThe French healthcare investor pays a 58% premium for the maker of Nexletol and Nexlizet, with $100m more tied to future sales.
- Belden agrees US$1.85bn deal for RUCKUS NetworksThe St Louis cable and connectivity group adds Wi-Fi and campus switching to become a full-stack IT and OT networking supplier.
- MARA agrees US$1.5bn deal for Ohio power plant owner Long Ridge EnergyThe bitcoin miner buys a 505 MW gas plant and adjacent land to build an AI data centre campus with its own power.
- Pacific Avenue buys CRH's lawn and garden unit for over US$1.1bnThe carve-out specialist relaunches the mulch, soil and stone maker as standalone GardenCore and plans acquisitions and greenfield growth.
- Sanoma buys Vicens Vives for €40mThe Finnish learning and media group adds a Catalan school publisher to its Santillana operation in one of Europe's largest K12 markets.
- Federal Bank agrees to buy Standard Chartered's Indian card portfolioThe Kerala-based lender is adding hundreds of thousands of seasoned metro cardholders as the British bank retreats from standalone cards in India.
- KONE agrees €29.4bn deal to combine with TK ElevatorThe Finnish lift maker brings its German rival's private equity owners onto its share register in what Finnish media called the country's largest corporate acquisition.
- Chiesi agrees US$1.9bn takeover of KalVistaThe Parma-based drugmaker makes the largest acquisition in its 90-year history to add an oral hereditary angioedema drug.
- Amadeus agrees €1.2bn deal for IDEMIA Public SecurityThe travel technology group deepens its push into airport and border biometrics, buying the business from Advent International.
- Teva agrees up-to-US$900m deal for Tourette drug developer EmalexTeva's first sizeable acquisition in years adds an NDA-ready, first-in-class therapy to its neuroscience pipeline.
- Döhler agrees £183m deal for TreattThe German ingredients group buys out a partner it already owned 28% of, after investors spurned a lower bid from Natara in 2025.
- ANZ agrees to buy out Worldline from Australian payments ventureANZ is taking full control of its merchant-acquiring venture as it puts transaction banking at the centre of its strategy.
- Ares buys Blackstone's 32.4% stake in Rover gas pipelineThe sponsor-to-sponsor trade gives Ares a large slice of a key Appalachian export route as power and LNG demand lift gas infrastructure values.
- Argo agrees US$470m purchase of UGI's Pennsylvania electric utilityThe mid-market infrastructure manager adds its fourth Pennsylvania utility as UGI sells a century-old division to concentrate on gas.
- Shell agrees US$16.4bn deal for Canada's ARC ResourcesThe oil major adds a low-cost Montney gas and liquids producer, paying mostly in its own shares.
- Daiwa agrees ¥370bn purchase of ORIX BankJapan's second-largest brokerage is buying a branchless lender with a leading share in loans to individual property investors.
- Apollo agrees €1.82bn carve-out of Forvia's interiors businessThe French car-parts group sells a division with more than 31,000 staff at just over three times EBITDA to accelerate deleveraging.
- Astorg buys Thermo Fisher's microbiology business for US$1.075bnThe Oxoid and Remel culture media maker becomes an independent diagnostics company with more than 95% of revenue from consumables.
