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Micro-Cap Deals Roundup for Week of Oct. 12, 2026

Bumble signed a $1.3 billion all-cash acquisition agreement with Ithaca Holdings, while Clear Channel Outdoor completed its approximately $6.2 billion acquisition by Mubadala Capital. Gibraltar agreed to sell D.S. Brown for $208 million in cash, and Faraday Future signed an all-stock robotics transaction.
Weekly Deals · October 18, 2026

Deals Roundup for Week of Oct. 12, 2026

CCC and Varonis signed cash acquisition agreements, Humana announced BlackRock’s planned purchase of WCAS’s roughly $2.8 billion stake in CenterWell clinic ventures, and Fermi signed a 15-year lease with about $6.5 billion in contracted revenue.
Weekly Deals · October 18, 2026

Cashlin Seeks OTC Quotation After Cashlin Flow Acquisition

The Wyoming software company is offering common stock on a best-efforts basis and says it will seek an OTC quotation.
IPO Watch · October 16, 2026

Tattvance Corp Files S-1 for AI Tattoo Platform

The development-stage company is seeking capital to finish an AI Tattoo Generator and a planned studio and artist platform.
IPO Watch · October 16, 2026

Iambic Therapeutics prices $150 million IPO at $16 a share

The AI drug-discovery company sold 9.375 million shares, with an additional 1.40625 million available on over-allotment.
IPO Watch · October 16, 2026

International Seaways to Buy Bruton in $370 Million Stock Deal

The tanker operator will fold Bruton’s four VLCCs, including newbuildings, into a fleet of about 70 vessels spanning crude and product.
Deals · October 16, 2026

Proofpoint to Buy Varonis in $6.3 Billion Cash Deal

The combined platform is meant to protect against AI-accelerated threats and data risks as Proofpoint, a Thoma Bravo portfolio company, takes the data-security firm private.
Deals · October 15, 2026

Gibraltar Industries to Sell D.S. Brown for $208 Million

The building-products maker said the asset purchase will fund debt reduction as it narrows the portfolio around residential, agtech and infrastructure.
Deals · October 15, 2026

Penske and Mitsui to Take PAG Private for $16.3 Billion

The take-private of the automotive retailer by Penske Corporation and Mitsui & Co. prices remaining shares at $212.00 in cash after a July proposal and a special-committee review.
Deals · October 15, 2026

Ocugen to License OCU400 to Roots Pharmaceutical

The gene-therapy company locked in MENA commercial rights to its retinitis pigmentosa program with a 22% royalty and $255 million in potential sales milestones.
Deals · October 15, 2026

Fortune Brands to Sell Fiberon Decking Assets

The home-products company said the Fiberon sale is part of active portfolio management to concentrate resources in its highest-return opportunities.
Deals · October 15, 2026

Daily Journal Completes All-Cash Purchase of Revir Technologies

The closed deal adds Scout, an AI platform for managing and searching digital evidence, to Daily Journal’s courts and justice technology stack.
Deals · October 15, 2026

Cronos Completes CanAdelaar Purchase for €57.5 Million

The cannabinoid company closed its all-cash acquisition of the Dutch Wietexperiment leader to build a European platform and a borderless product strategy.
Deals · October 15, 2026

GTCR Consortium to Buy CCC Intelligent Solutions for $6.1 Billion

The SaaS and AI insurance platform will be taken private at $7.75 a share, a 44% premium to the last close before sale speculation, as GTCR and Elliott plan to fund AI and product expansion.
Deals · October 15, 2026

Biohaven Licenses MoDE Degraders to Ono for Asia

The biopharmaceutical company will receive up to $100 million in near-term payments and about 20% royalties as Ono takes exclusive rights to BHV-1300-led IgG degraders in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and ASEAN.
Deals · October 15, 2026

ASP Isotopes Unit Locks Joint Venture With Necsa

The pact binds Quantum Leap Energy and the South African nuclear research corporation to build and run a HALEU plant at Pelindaba.
Deals · October 15, 2026

Amplitude to Acquire Statsig in All-Stock Deal

The analytics platform is buying the experimentation company to fold feature-flag and A/B testing into its AI analytics stack.
Deals · October 15, 2026

Vir Biotechnology to License TCEs to Gilead for $135 Million

Gilead takes an exclusive development and commercialization license on three next-generation dual-masked T-cell engagers while Vir keeps its own oncology pipeline.
Deals · October 14, 2026

National Fuel to Spin Off Integrated Upstream and Gathering

The natural gas company's board approved a tax-free split that would leave two independent public companies with distinct growth strategies.
Deals · October 14, 2026

Liberty Global Sells Dutch Towers for €669 Million

EU Commission clearance of the VodafoneZiggo passive-tower sale is another step toward a mid-2027 Amsterdam listing of Ziggo Group.
Deals · October 14, 2026

Fermi to Lease 222 MW to TensorWave in $6.5 Billion Deal

A 15-year binding phase-one lease at Project Matador, with AMD credit support and two options to triple TensorWave's footprint.
Deals · October 14, 2026

Distribution Solutions Group to Buy GradeEight Holdings

The specialty distributor said the deal adds Winzer’s national franchisee network and FastServ Supply’s Texas and Arkansas storefronts to its MRO platform.
Deals · October 14, 2026

Mubadala Capital Completes $6.2 Billion Clear Channel Take-Private

The U.S. out-of-home advertiser closed after regulatory and stockholder approvals, with Wade Davis taking over as chief executive.
Deals · October 14, 2026

Eton to License Libervant Buccal Film for U.S. Launch

The exclusive U.S. license adds an orphan-designated seizure-rescue therapy and a neurology platform in a market Eton said exceeds $450 million annually.
Deals · October 14, 2026

DOJ extends review of Patrick’s all-stock LCI acquisition

Requests for additional information extend the antitrust waiting period for Patrick’s proposed acquisition of LCI.
Deal Scrutiny · October 14, 2026

Workday to Buy C1.ai as Identity Governance Layer

Workday said the deal will let it govern access for employees and AI agents from hire to offboard.
Deals · October 13, 2026

SSR Mining to Buy Roxmore in $464 Million Cash Deal

The gold miner will pay C$6.75 a share for Converse, a multi-million-ounce resource next to Marigold, and expects more than $200 million in life-of-mine synergies.
Deals · October 13, 2026

Porch Group to Buy Allied Trust in Mixed $105 Million Deal

The purchase is expected to add about $200 million of Reciprocal written premium and $25 million of Adjusted EBITDA in the first full year after closing.
Deals · October 13, 2026

McEwen to Sell Timmins Assets for $55 Million

The gold miner will take $5 million in cash and $50 million in Discovery shares to fund a 250,000–300,000 gold-equivalent ounce production target by 2030.
Deals · October 13, 2026

IonQ to Buy Elisity in Up to $1.3 Billion Stock Deal

The quantum platform company said the all-stock combination will pair post-quantum cryptography with Zero Trust policy enforcement for enterprise and government customers.
Deals · October 13, 2026

BlackRock to Buy WCAS Stake in CenterWell Clinic Ventures

The new venture covers nearly 150 clinics, with BlackRock as majority owner and CenterWell as minority owner. CenterWell will continue to manage and operate the clinics.
Deals · October 13, 2026

Teradyne to Invest $300 Million in FormFactor

The automated-test maker is pairing its platforms with FormFactor’s probe and interface work to speed AI and high-performance-compute test from wafer to data center.
Deals · October 13, 2026

Micro-Cap Deals Roundup for Week of Oct. 5, 2026

Viatris agreed to buy Pacira for $36.50 a share in cash, Altaris completed its Simulations Plus acquisition, and INNOVATE closed its DBM Global sale. Bank merger approvals and revised Twin Vee ownership terms added separate deal milestones.
Weekly Deals · October 11, 2026

Schneider Electric signs $22.6 billion cash deal for PTC

The PTC agreement carries a $23.7 billion enterprise value. Healthcare deals feature majority and minority stakes, cash purchases and sales-linked payments.
Weekly Deals · October 10, 2026

Centinel Spine Holdco Files to Sell Class A Common Stock

The pure-play total disc replacement company said it will use proceeds to fund sales, R&D and debt repayment.
IPO Watch · October 10, 2026

Lycia Therapeutics Files for IPO to Fund LYTAC IgE and Graves'

The clinical-stage biotech is seeking public capital to advance LYTAC degraders aimed at IgE and Graves' disease.
IPO Watch · October 10, 2026

Winklevoss Zcash ETF Seeks Nasdaq Listing for ZEC Shares

The proposed trust would hold Zcash and aim to track its price for brokerage-account investors.
IPO Watch · October 9, 2026

XMax to Buy Hexa Creation in Unpriced AI Power Deal

The company said the purchase puts it into high-voltage power semiconductors as it extends an AI strategy already running through software, platforms and GPU services.
Deals · October 9, 2026

Pebblebrook Hotel Trust to Sell Hotel Zags for $10.0 Million

The REIT said it will use proceeds for general corporate purposes, including opportunistic common or preferred share repurchases.
Deals · October 9, 2026

Gran Tierra Shareholders Approve $1.33 Billion Colombia-Ecuador Sale

The vote moves Gran Tierra toward a December 31 close that would leave the company debt-free with about $250 million in cash to fund Canada and Azerbaijan.
Deals · October 9, 2026

GigCapital8 to Buy Quantisimo in $666 Million Stock Deal

The SPAC will issue 66.61 million shares of a new holding company to take the WISeKey-SEALSQ quantum vehicle public under a Root-to-Qubit platform.
Deals · October 9, 2026

Baldwin Insurance Group to Buy Cobbs Allen Capital Holdings

The insurer agreed to acquire the capital-holdings firm in a transaction whose structure and price were not disclosed.
Deals · October 9, 2026

Crescent to Buy Devon Eagle Ford Assets for $3.85 Billion

The deal adds about 68 Mboe/d of net production and more than 600 Tier 1 net locations, with closing expected in late 2026 or early 2027.
Deals · October 8, 2026

Viatris to Buy Pacira BioSciences in $1.65 Billion Cash Deal

The global healthcare company said the non-opioid pain assets EXPAREL and ZILRETTA fit a fast-acting meloxicam opportunity.
Deals · October 8, 2026

NovaGold to Buy Paulson's 40% Donlin Stake

The all-share deal would give NovaGold 100% of Alaska's Donlin Gold, projected as the largest single U.S. gold mine, in a combined company valued at about $4.9 billion.
Deals · October 8, 2026

Movado Group to Sell EBEL in $66.5 Million Asset Deal

The watchmaker said the sale will sharpen its focus on accessible luxury watches and jewelry while giving EBEL a dedicated ownership platform.
Deals · October 8, 2026

Hess Midstream to Buy Chevron DJ Basin Assets for $200 Million

The cash asset purchase is expected to make Hess Midstream an independent, multi-basin midstream operator with Bakken and DJ Basin positions and contracts through 2045.
Deals · October 8, 2026

Crescent Energy to Buy Devon Eagle Ford Assets for $4.2 Billion

Devon said the cash sale high-grades its portfolio and sharpens focus on highest-return, longest-duration assets after the Coterra merger.
Deals · October 8, 2026

DiamondRock Hospitality to Buy Bellmoor Inn for $31 Million

The lodging REIT framed the independent resort as a supply-constrained asset with in-place cash flow and operational upside.
Deals · October 8, 2026

Third Coast to Buy Great Plains in $239.6 Million Stock Deal

The all-stock merger is expected to expand Third Coast’s Dallas footprint and put the Texas community bank into Oklahoma.
Deals · October 7, 2026