Section

Deals

Mergers, acquisitions, funding rounds and the dealmakers behind them.

• Quantum Security

  IonQ Agrees to Buy Elisity for Up to $1.3 Billion in a Quantum-Security Expansion

  The all-stock transaction includes as much as $150 million of performance-based earnouts and gives IonQ an enterprise Zero Trust platform with more than 100 customer deployments.

  By Anna Ferreira · Oct 18, 2026 · 4 min read

• Deals

  CCC Intelligent Solutions Agrees to a $6.1 Billion Take-Private Deal With GTCR and Elliott

  Shareholders would receive $7.75 a share in cash, a 44% premium to the unaffected price, with the insurance-software company expected to leave Nasdaq in early 2027.

  By Anna Ferreira · Oct 18, 2026 · 5 min read

• Deals

  Energy Transfer Adds Vaquero Midstream for $2.625 Billion in Cash and Units

  The Delaware Basin gathering and processing system comes with about 100,000 dedicated acres and a complex that can be expanded to 1.2 billion cubic feet a day.

  By Anna Ferreira · Oct 6, 2026 · 2 min read

• Deals

  Skyworks Closes Its Qorvo Combination, Creating a Single U.S. Radio-Frequency Chipmaker

  Qorvo holders receive $32.50 in cash plus 0.960 Skyworks shares. The combined company targets at least $500 million in annual cost savings within 24 to 36 months.

  By Anna Ferreira · Oct 6, 2026 · 2 min read

• Deals

  Uber Will Pay $2.3 Billion in Cash for ezCater and Its $400 Office Lunch Orders

  The corporate-catering platform handled more than $2.5 billion of gross bookings over the past 12 months. Uber says the deal adds to margins and should close within months.

  By Anna Ferreira · Oct 6, 2026 · 2 min read

• Deals

  CD&R and McKesson Agree to Buy Option Care Health for $32.05 a Share

  The home-infusion provider would go private at an enterprise value of about $5.8 billion, with McKesson taking a roughly 49% minority position alongside the private equity firm.

  By Anna Ferreira · Oct 6, 2026 · 2 min read

• Deals

  Paramount Closes Its $110 Billion Warner Bros. Discovery Takeover and Becomes Skydance Corp.

  The all-cash deal was cleared last week when a federal judge approved a settlement with 12 state attorneys general. The combined company is expected to trade as SKYD.

  By Anna Ferreira · Oct 6, 2026 · 2 min read

• Deals

  IES Holdings Closes Its $691 Million Purchase of Steel Fabricator DBM Global

  The cash-and-stock deal adds a $1.5 billion-revenue structural steel platform and about 4,000 employees, and hands seller INNOVATE Corp. roughly $413 million in cash.

  By Anna Ferreira · Oct 6, 2026 · 2 min read

• Deals

  Schneider Electric Agrees to Buy PTC for $22.6 Billion, a 42% Premium to Friday's Close

  The all-cash offer of $205 a share values the Boston industrial-software company at $23.7 billion including debt and would end its Nasdaq listing.

  By Anna Ferreira · Oct 5, 2026 · 2 min read

• Deals

  C.H. Robinson Will Buy RXO for $5.8 Billion in Cash and Stock, Targeting $300 Million in Synergies

  RXO holders would receive $17.25 in cash plus 0.0856 C.H. Robinson shares, an implied $30.25 a share, and about 11% of the combined broker.

  By Anna Ferreira · Oct 5, 2026 · 2 min read

• Deals

  Progress Software Details Its $400 Million Domo Purchase and Raises Full-Year Revenue Guidance

  The deal closed Sept. 22 at 1.4 times steady-state revenue; Progress now guides fiscal 2026 revenue to as much as $1.05 billion, with margins compressing during integration.

  By Anna Ferreira · Oct 3, 2026 · 2 min read

• Deals

  CareTrust Commits £1.1 Billion to 45 New U.K. Care Homes, With 24 Closing First for £576 Million

  The forward-purchase agreement with LNT Care Developments staggers closings into 2027 and anticipates a conversion to a managed structure by the fourth quarter of that year.

  By Anna Ferreira · Oct 3, 2026 · 2 min read

• Deals

  onsemi Recuts Its Synaptics Deal to $123 a Share in Cash, Trimming the Value to $5.7 Billion After a Rival Approach

  The 8-K discloses an unsolicited proposal from a bidder identified only as "Party A," which Synaptics's board briefly deemed a superior proposal before renegotiating with onsemi.

  By Anna Ferreira · Oct 3, 2026 · 2 min read

• Deals

  David Ellison Says the Combined Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery Will Be Called Skydance

  The roughly $110 billion combination is expected to close October 6, days after a federal judge approved a settlement with state attorneys general.

  By Anna Ferreira · Oct 3, 2026 · 2 min read

• Deals

  Caterpillar Agrees to Buy John Fabick Tractor, Taking Ownership of a 37-Location Cat Dealership

  The century-old dealer covers Wisconsin, Michigan's Upper Peninsula and parts of Missouri and Illinois in a rare move by the manufacturer into its own distribution network.

  By Anna Ferreira · Oct 1, 2026 · 5 min read

• Deals

  Oura Postpones Its Nasdaq IPO, Citing Market Uncertainty

  The smart ring maker had filed to sell 55 million shares at $40 to $44, a deal that would have raised as much as $2.2 billion.

  By Anna Ferreira · Oct 1, 2026 · 5 min read

• Deals

  Hormel to Buy Brakebush Brothers for $1.055 Billion, Adding $1.2 Billion in Chicken Sales

  The Spam maker said the deal for the century-old Wisconsin value-added chicken company should close in the first quarter of fiscal 2027 and add to adjusted earnings beginning in fiscal 2028.

  By Anna Ferreira · Oct 1, 2026 · 5 min read

• Deals

  Peoples Bancorp to Buy Capital Bancorp for $728.1 Million, Creating a $14 Billion Lender

  The all-stock deal would extend the Ohio bank into the Washington and Baltimore markets and give Capital shareholders about 32% of the combined company.

  By Anna Ferreira · Oct 1, 2026 · 5 min read

• Deals

  Kenon Pays About $450 Million for a Quarter of Vicinity District Energy at a $2.92 Billion Enterprise Value

  The Singapore-based holding company is buying into the sole district heating and cooling provider in 12 U.S. cities, alongside Harrison Street, from an Antin-related seller.

  By Anna Ferreira · Oct 1, 2026 · 5 min read

• Deals

  Grindr Agrees to Buy Telehealth Provider PurposeMed for $250 Million, Rising to $320 Million With an Earnout

  The acquisition brings HIV-prevention brand Freddie in-house, with $190 million in cash, $60 million in stock and up to $70 million tied to 2027 targets.

  By Anna Ferreira · Oct 1, 2026 · 5 min read

• Deals

  Sanofi Will Pay Regeneron $1 Billion Upfront and Up to $8 Billion Total for Four Immunology Antibodies

  The expansion of the partnership that produced Dupixent covers IL-13, IL-4, IL-4R-alpha and an IL-4xIL-13 bispecific, with development costs and profits split evenly.

  By Anna Ferreira · Oct 1, 2026 · 2 min read

• Deals

  Mattel Shares Surge on a Report That Authentic Brands Has Weighed a Bid Above $20 a Share

  The Wall Street Journal said Authentic Brands Group privately discussed an offer valuing the toymaker at more than $6 billion, a day after Mattel named Roger Lynch chief executive.

  By Anna Ferreira · Oct 1, 2026 · 2 min read

• Deals

  Paramount Skydance Launches About $44.4 Billion of Secured Notes to Help Fund Its Warner Bros. Discovery Purchase

  The first- and second-lien offerings rank among the largest corporate bond raises on record, and the company says completing them is not a condition to closing the acquisition.

  By Anna Ferreira · Sep 29, 2026 · 5 min read

• Deals

  AstraZeneca Puts $2 Billion Into Summit Therapeutics Through Convertible Preferred Shares

  The investment converts at an implied $18.36 a share and comes with a clinical collaboration pairing Summit's ivonescimab with AstraZeneca cancer medicines.

  By Anna Ferreira · Sep 29, 2026 · 5 min read

• Deals

  AAR to Buy 65% of MRO Holdings at a $4 Billion Enterprise Value, Creating the Largest Heavy Maintenance Provider

  The deal is priced at 10.7 times forecast 2026 adjusted EBITDA including synergies, funded with $2.1 billion of new debt, $780 million of stock to sellers and a $230 million PIPE.

  By Anna Ferreira · Sep 29, 2026 · 6 min read

• Deals

  Greenbriar Is Said to Near a $1.8 Billion Deal for Aerospace Supplier Spectrum Control

  Bloomberg reports the private equity firm beat out industrial buyers for the AEA Investors-owned maker of radio frequency and microwave components.

  By Anna Ferreira · Sep 28, 2026 · 5 min read

• Deals

  Merck Pays $400 Million Upfront for SciBrunch's Preclinical KRAS G12D Inhibitor in a Deal Worth Up to $2.13 Billion

  The exclusive global license covers SPR2015, a molecular glue targeting one of oncology's most persistent mutations, and triggers a $0.13-per-share charge in Merck's third quarter.

  By Anna Ferreira · Sep 28, 2026 · 5 min read

• Deals

  Sabre Draws Tenders for 93% of Its $1 Billion Secured Notes and Wins Consent to Amend the Indenture

  Holders tendered $930.7 million of the 11.125% notes due 2029 by Friday's early deadline. Sabre expects to redeem the remainder on Oct. 13.

  By Anna Ferreira · Sep 26, 2026 · 5 min read

• Deals

  Novo Nordisk Licenses Nanexa's Coating Technology in a Deal Worth Up to 1.165 Billion Euros

  The drugmaker gains a global exclusive license to the PharmaShell platform for up to five obesity and diabetes programs, aiming at monthly and quarterly dosing. Nanexa shares more than doubled in Stockholm.

  By Anna Ferreira · Sep 26, 2026 · 7 min read

• Deals

  Barry Diller's People Inc. Walks Away From Its MGM Resorts Takeover; MGM Shares Sink About 10%

  The publisher withdrew a $48.30-a-share proposal valued at roughly $18 billion, saying the mix was not coming together as hoped, while keeping its 27% stake.

  By Anna Ferreira · Sep 25, 2026 · 7 min read

• Deals

  Bio-Techne Holders Approve Merck KGaA's $11.3 Billion Buyout — and Reject the Executive Pay Package Nearly 4 to 1

  The merger passed with 121.9 million shares in favor against 1.2 million opposed, while the advisory golden-parachute proposal failed with 96.4 million against.

  By Anna Ferreira · Sep 25, 2026 · 3 min read

• Deals

  Caesars Shareholders Approve Fertitta's $31-a-Share Buyout as FTC Review Continues

  About 65% of shares outstanding backed the deal. A separate filing discloses a stockholder demand letter over the proxy's treatment of the company's outside counsel.

  By Anna Ferreira · Sep 25, 2026 · 2 min read

• Deals

  Diller's People Inc. Withdraws $48.30-a-Share Bid for MGM Resorts; Shares Fall 11%

  The media group is keeping its 66.8 million shares, about 27% of the casino operator, and says it remains open to a strategic transaction. MGM's board says it will continue as a standalone company.

  By Anna Ferreira · Sep 25, 2026 · 2 min read

• Deals

  Iridium Stockholders Approve the Rocket Lab Acquisition With 99.6% of Votes Cast

  The vote clears the shareholder gate on a cash-and-stock deal valued at $54 a share. Closing is still expected in mid-2027, subject to regulatory approvals.

  By Anna Ferreira · Sep 25, 2026 · 10 min read

• Deals

  Select Water Solutions to Buy Pilot Water Solutions for $700 Million

  The cash-and-stock deal adds 2.7 million barrels a day of permitted disposal capacity and is expected to push water infrastructure to about 70% of pro forma profitability by 2027.

  By Anna Ferreira · Sep 25, 2026 · 10 min read

• Deals

  Paramount Settles 12-State Antitrust Suit Over Warner Bros. Discovery Deal; WBD Shares Close Up Nearly 11%

  A proposed consent decree, still subject to court approval, binds the combined studio to film-output quotas, production spending and a newsroom independence board for five years after closing.

  By Anna Ferreira · Sep 22, 2026 · 4 min read

• Deals

  DoorDash & Grubhub: DoorDash agreed to buy Grubhub's specialized university campus dining unit for $300 million

  By Anna Ferreira · Sep 20, 2026 · 10 min read