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Deals — page 6

Hormel Foods to Buy Brakebush Brothers for $1.055 Billion

The packaged-foods company said the value-added chicken producer will expand its Foodservice platform and deepen operator relationships.
Deals · September 30, 2026

Grindr to Buy PurposeMed in $250 Million Cash-and-Stock Deal

The dating-app operator said the purchase accelerates Grindr Health by putting PrEP inside the app at little to no cost to users.
Deals · September 30, 2026

Trump Media to Merge with TAE in $6 Billion Stock Deal

The all-stock combination is set to create a publicly traded fusion company that plans to site a 50 MWe plant in 2026.
Deals · September 30, 2026

Peoples Bancorp to Buy Capital Bancorp in $728 Million Stock Deal

The all-stock merger is expected to lift the combined franchise to about $14 billion in assets and add nationwide specialty platforms to Peoples' community-banking model.
Deals · September 30, 2026

Brink's to Close NCR Atleos Deal Early in 2027

The cash-and-stock combination now targets an earlier close after shareholder votes and Hart-Scott-Rodino clearance, with a NoteMachine/TestLink UK sale left off the $200 million synergy math.
Deals · September 30, 2026

AAR Agrees to Buy 65% of MRO Holdings

The aviation aftermarket platform posted $918.0 million of first-quarter sales, up 24%, and lifted full-year fiscal 2027 sales-growth guidance to low teens.
Deals · September 29, 2026

AstraZeneca to Invest $2 Billion in Summit Therapeutics

The oncology developer also agreed to pair ivonescimab with AstraZeneca’s sonesitatug vedotin in gastrointestinal cancers.
Deals · September 29, 2026

SmartStop to Buy Strategic Storage Canada in $54 Million Deal

The self-storage REIT said the 25 Class A properties would make it Canada's third-largest operator and add Halifax and Quebec City to its Canadian footprint.
Deals · September 29, 2026

Peoples Bancorp to Buy Citizens National in $76.6 Million Deal

The mixed cash-and-stock merger is expected to be immediately accretive, with a tangible book value earnback of less than one year.
Deals · September 29, 2026

Long Lake Completes $6.3 Billion Cash Buy of Amex GBT

The AI holding company closed its all-cash take-private of the travel-software operator, which will delist from the NYSE and run under Long Lake.
Deals · September 29, 2026

Fox Factory to Sell Marucci Business to Wheelhouse

The suspension maker is exiting premium diamond-sports bats and plans to use the proceeds to cut outstanding debt.
Deals · September 29, 2026

AAR to Buy MRO Holdings in $4.0 Billion Mixed Deal

The aviation aftermarket platform said the controlling stake will make it the largest heavy-maintenance MRO in the world, servicing nearly 3,000 aircraft a year.
Deals · September 29, 2026

Valley National to Buy Bluevine in $340 Million Mixed Deal

Valley said the fintech purchase is expected to add core funding, a small-business growth platform, and faster digital and AI capabilities.
Deals · September 28, 2026

TransDigm Completes $1.066 Billion Cash Purchase of Prince & Izant

The aerospace components maker closed a July agreement to buy the Cleveland-based brazing-alloy producer from Industrial Growth Partners.
Deals · September 28, 2026

Paramount Skydance to Buy Warner Bros. Discovery in $78 Billion Cash Deal

The media company will fund the all-cash purchase with notes, cash on hand, term loans and a previously announced equity financing.
Deals · September 28, 2026

Getty Realty to Buy 41 Convenience Stores in $260.9 Million Deal

The net-lease REIT added Refuel as its third-largest tenant through four long-term unitary leases on the acquired stores.
Deals · September 28, 2026

FTAI Energy Partners to Buy Port Arthur Terminal for $255 Million

The cash purchase of a Gulf Coast terminal and a Hardisty diluent unit is framed as a take-or-pay crude logistics platform that more than doubles Jefferson’s Adjusted EBITDA.
Deals · September 28, 2026

Brixmor to Buy Slate Grocery REIT Assets for $2.34 Billion

The grocery-anchored shopping-center REIT said the asset purchase is immediately accretive and will add 23 centers in markets it already occupies.
Deals · September 28, 2026

Titan International to Sell Italtractor ITM Undercarriage for Up to $285 Million

The off-highway wheel and tire maker said the cash asset sale will sharpen focus on core operations and fund accretive growth and debt reduction.
Deals · September 26, 2026

Fox Factory to Sell Marucci Parent for $225 Million

The suspension maker is exiting the sports-equipment brand after a February review, citing weaker-than-expected returns and a need to strengthen its balance sheet.
Deals · September 26, 2026

Select Water Solutions to Buy Pilot Water for $700 Million

The water-infrastructure operator will fold a private Delaware Basin midstream company into its recycling and disposal network.
Deals · September 25, 2026

Vertiv to Buy King Environmental in EMEA Thermal Deal

The critical-infrastructure provider said the purchase is expected to extend fluid-management services into Europe, Middle East and Africa after a North America-focused PurgeRite close.
Deals · September 25, 2026

Ligand to Invest Up to $47 Million in AvenCell

The royalty aggregator said the stake will help advance AvenCell’s CRISPR-engineered allogeneic CAR-T programs in AML and B-cell malignancies.
Deals · September 25, 2026

Akamai to Take Anthropic $11.6 Billion Cloud Commitment

The cybersecurity and cloud computing company said a seven-year contract will fund Anthropic’s rising CPU workloads on Akamai Cloud’s distributed AI infrastructure.
Deals · September 25, 2026

Archer to Acquire Boeing’s Wisk, SkyGrid and Insitu Units

The eVTOL maker said the deal will fold autonomy, UAS and airspace-intelligence businesses into its ZEE physical-AI platform, with Boeing taking a stake.
Deals · September 25, 2026

Bio-Techne Shareholders Approve Merck KGaA's $11.3 Billion Cash Bid

The life-science tools maker cleared the merger vote as remaining regulatory approvals still stand between the parties and a late-2026 or early-2027 close.
Deals · September 24, 2026

Aermont Completes $1.03 Billion Cash Purchase of Park Holidays

Sun Communities closed the sale of its UK holiday-park business, leaving it a pure-play North American MH and RV owner and operator.
Deals · September 24, 2026

Royal Caribbean to Form $3 Billion Sandals Joint Venture

The cruise operator said the partnership expands it into an adjacent vacation category and accelerates growth of the all-inclusive brands.
Deals · September 24, 2026

Ondas to Buy Three Defense Firms in $56 Million Mixed Deal

The autonomous-systems company said the three purchases will add technologies for autonomous platforms in contested environments.
Deals · September 24, 2026

ONE Nuclear Energy to Go Public via Hennessy VII Combination

The SPAC deal would list the gas-and-SMR developer on Nasdaq as ONEN after a first-half 2026 close.
Deals · September 24, 2026

FMC to Buy Tessenderlo Group in $403 Million Cash Deal

The agricultural sciences company will pay $13.30 a share after a minority stake from Tessenderlo earlier this year.
Deals · September 24, 2026

Accelerant Go-Shop Ends With No Rival Bids

The specialty-insurance platform's 40-day shop produced no alternative offers as the Thoma Bravo take-private remains slated for the first half of 2027.
Deals · September 24, 2026

Apogee Enterprises Completes GroGlass Acquisition

The building-products company closed its purchase of the Riga-based coatings maker to add anti-reflective technology to Performance Surfaces.
Deals · September 24, 2026

Talos Energy Closes $420 Million Gulf of America Asset Purchase

The offshore E&P said the Shell deepwater closing advances its plan to build a long-lived, scaled portfolio.
Deals · September 23, 2026

Progress Software to Buy Domo Platform in $400 Million Cash Deal

The AI infrastructure software company will fold Domo’s cloud-native data platform into its existing offerings and keep the seller as a listed shell with net cash and NOLs.
Deals · September 23, 2026

Ligand to Buy Santen's Ryjunea for $23 Million

The biopharma royalty aggregator is adding the first approved pharmacological treatment for slowing pediatric myopia in the EU and UK to its expanding royalty book.
Deals · September 23, 2026

Cognex to Buy RealSense in $500 Million Cash Deal

The machine-vision company said the purchase is a move into robotic perception as it diversifies its growth engine.
Deals · September 23, 2026

Woodward to Move Santa Clarita Aerospace Production to Spartanburg

The energy-controls maker will shift military flight-control actuation to South Carolina and sell a smaller group of legacy products as it refines its manufacturing footprint.
Deals · September 22, 2026

Construction Partners Adds Roads, Inc. of NWF

The Florida Panhandle deal folds the contractor into C.W. Roberts to deepen CPI’s public and private infrastructure coverage in the region.
Deals · September 22, 2026

PTC Completes ST-920 Fabry Gene Therapy Purchase

The rare-disease company closed a competitive bankruptcy auction for a BLA-stage AAV program it plans to file in the fourth quarter.
Deals · September 22, 2026

Investor Group to Take Priority Technology Private in $1.6 Billion Cash Deal

Chairman Thomas Priore’s group will buy remaining Priority shares at $8.05, a 65% premium to the pre-proposal close, with Searchlight equity and a first-half 2027 close.
Deals · September 22, 2026

DICK’S Completes $2.5 Billion Foot Locker Acquisition

The sporting-goods retailer closed the mixed cash-and-stock merger on Sept. 8, 2025, folding Foot Locker’s global store base into a standalone unit.
Deals · September 22, 2026

H.I.G. Capital to Buy MISTRAS in $866 Million Cash Deal

The industrial asset-integrity firm will be taken private at $20.35 a share after a 40-day go-shop, with closing expected in late 2026 or early 2027.
Deals · September 19, 2026

VME Companies to Sell Shares for Offshore Module Work

The Tyler, Texas holding company is seeking public capital to fund project execution, pay down credit lines, and build engineering capacity.
IPO Watch · September 18, 2026

Intermountain Health to Buy Idaho Falls Hospitals in $796.6 Million Deal

Surgery Partners said the sale of Mountain View Hospital and Idaho Falls Community Hospital will make it a pure-play short-stay surgical operator.
Deals · September 18, 2026

Rexford Industrial Closes $1.2 Billion Industrial Portfolio Sale

The Southern California industrial REIT completed a non-core asset sale that advances a $2.0 billion disposition program and is expected to fund 2027 debt repayment and share repurchases.
Deals · September 18, 2026

Gentherm Wins Shareholder Approval for Modine Spin-Off Combination

Gentherm shareholders backed the all-stock Reverse Morris Trust with Modine’s Performance Technologies unit, clearing the last major hurdle before an October 1 close.
Deals · September 18, 2026

Bank of America to Buy Mechanics Auto Loan Runoff

Mechanics Bancorp said the sale of the substantial majority of runoff auto loans will reduce risk, improve liquidity and enhance future profitability.
Deals · September 18, 2026

Interparfums Extends Cavalli Fragrance License Through 2046

The fragrance licensee locked in worldwide rights to Roberto Cavalli and Just Cavalli for another two decades after three years of managing the brands.
Deals · September 18, 2026

Colony to Buy First Reliance in $163 Million Mixed Deal

The combined Southeast community bank is expected to have about $5 billion in assets and a fourth-quarter close.
Deals · September 18, 2026