M&A news archive: page 21 of 31
Every deal story we have published, newest first, with value and status. Updated every morning.
- Unilever buys greens supplement brand GrünsThe consumer goods group adds a three-year-old gummy brand to the wellbeing unit that owns Liquid I.V., Olly and Nutrafol.
- ITOCHU and Sankyu agree to buy Singapore plant-maintenance firm SWTSJapanese partners are betting on recession-resistant maintenance demand from ageing refineries and new data centres across Southeast Asia.
- Francisco Partners agrees up to C$850m take-private of Blackline SafetyThe technology investor pays a 27% cash premium plus a revenue-linked contingent right, with the founder and major holders rolling over almost a third of the shares.
- Accenture buys Spanish AI specialist KeeplerThe consultancy adds a Madrid data and agentic AI team as it keeps up a string of AI-focused acquisitions in Europe.
- Gilead agrees up to US$5bn deal for TubulisThe US drugmaker adds a German antibody-drug conjugate platform and a late-stage ovarian cancer candidate to its oncology pipeline.
- Tinicum and Blackstone agree £1.4bn takeover of aerospace engineer SeniorThe consortium beat earlier interest from Advent and Arcline and plans to pair the FTSE 250 group with Tinicum's AeroFlow Technologies.
- Triton agrees to buy armour maker Integris Composites from AgilitasThe mid-market fund draws on its RENK experience to scale a defence supplier riding higher European and US military spending.
- Neurocrine agrees US$2.9bn takeover of Soleno TherapeuticsThe San Diego drugmaker adds a third commercial rare-disease medicine, Prader-Willi syndrome treatment VYKAT XR.
- Daito Trust bids to take SBI-backed THE Global privateThe rental-housing builder is buying a foothold in central Tokyo residential development from SBI Holdings.
- Don Quijote owner PPIH agrees all-share takeover of Olympic GroupThe discount retailer is buying a struggling Tokyo supermarket chain to speed up store openings in the capital.
- ECP agrees to buy back nuclear services group EnergySolutionsThe Bridgepoint-owned infrastructure investor returns to a former portfolio company as reactor life extensions and power demand revive the nuclear sector.
- Masdar and TotalEnergies agree US$2.2bn Asian renewables mergerThe Abu Dhabi clean-energy group and the French major are pooling 9GW of onshore projects to chase Asia's surging power demand.
- West China Cement agrees R2.5bn takeover of South Africa's AfriSamA Chinese producer with spare capacity in Mozambique is buying one of South Africa's largest cement makers from its lender-owners, prompting dumping warnings from rivals.
- KG Group agrees ₩750bn deal for Hahn & Co's K CarThe steel-to-payments conglomerate is adding a listed used-car retailer alongside carmaker KG Mobility in a bid to build a full mobility chain.
- McCormick agrees US$44.8bn combination with Unilever FoodsThe spice maker takes on Knorr and Hellmann's, leaving Unilever as a home and personal care group with a minority stake in the new food company.
- Lilly agrees up to US$7.8bn deal for CentessaThe US drugmaker moves into sleep medicine with a pipeline of orexin receptor 2 agonists developed by the London- and Boston-based biotech.
- Biogen agrees US$5.6bn deal for ApellisTwo marketed complement drugs give Biogen immediate revenue and a nephrology sales team ahead of its felzartamab launch.
- KKR agrees $3.3bn take-private of Japan's Taiyo HoldingsThe buyout of a leading maker of solder resist for printed circuit boards is a bet on AI-driven demand for electronic materials.
- Seibu bids ¥30bn for used-home renovator e'grandThe railway and hotels group pays more than twice the market price to fold a Tokyo home-resale specialist into its core property business.
- Inflexion buys Finnish fire-suppression group Marioff from SentinelThe UK buyout firm picks up a former Carrier business whose water-mist systems protect cruise ships, naval vessels and data centres.
- Sysco agrees US$29.1bn deal for Jetro Restaurant DepotThe foodservice distributor is borrowing heavily to move into cash-and-carry, a channel that serves the small independent restaurants it reaches less well.
- Carlyle takes control of MAI Capital at $2.8bn-plus valuationThe buyout firm deepens its bet on consolidating US wealth managers as three other backers cash out.
- Sun Life buys Bell Partners as it takes full control of BGO and CrescentThe Canadian insurer is consolidating its alternatives arm, SLC Management, into a wholly owned real estate and credit platform.
- EPL agrees merger with Indorama's Indovida, ceding control to Thai groupThe deal combines laminated tubes with rigid PET packaging into a ~$1bn-revenue emerging-markets platform and makes Indorama Ventures the majority owner.
- CMS Info Systems buys FSS's ATM managed services arm for up to Rs115 croreThe Mumbai business-services group adds about 8,000 ATMs and new private-sector bank clients as banks consolidate outsourcing with fewer, larger partners.
- Raiffeisen agrees €591m deal for Garanti BBVA RomaniaThe Austrian lender buys out a mid-sized rival to climb from fifth to third in Romanian banking, as BBVA retreats from the market.
- CrossCountry Mortgage outbids UWM for Two HarborsThe retail mortgage lender won a three-month contest for the servicing REIT, raising its cash offer twice before closing in August.
- Otsuka agrees deal worth up to US$1.2bn for Transcend TherapeuticsThe Japanese drugmaker adds a methylone-based PTSD candidate that has entered Phase 3 with Breakthrough Therapy status.
- Novartis agrees deal worth up to US$2bn for ExcellergyThe Swiss group backs a faster-acting successor to its anti-IgE franchise as Xolair faces biosimilar competition.
- SAP agrees to buy master data specialist ReltioThe German software group wants Reltio's entity-resolution engine to feed clean, unified data from SAP and rival systems to its AI agents.
