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Mergers and Acquisitions
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Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) covers deals where companies combine or where one company buys another. Deal activity reflects the cost of capital, strategic priorities, and acquirer confidence in future earnings.
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Goldman buys ETF issuer Neos for up to $2.25bnGoldman Sachs is paying up to $2.25 billion for Neos Investments, a specialist in options-based income ETFs managing roughly $30 billion across 19 funds as of June 30. The deal lifts Goldman's acti…Iger and Kushner buy the Lakers at $12.5bnBob Iger and Thrive Capital's Josh Kushner are buying the Los Angeles Lakers at a $12.5 billion valuation, barely a year after Mark Walter's TWG Global took control of the team from the Buss family…Ari Emmanuel buys the West End's biggest theatre owner for £4.5bnThe Endeavor chief's move into live theatre ownership puts a Hollywood dealmaker in charge of a sizeable chunk of London's stage economy.Bezos edges closer to a £4.5bn Liverpool stakeFenway Sports Group has confirmed talks over a strategic minority investment led by Amit Bhatia, son-in-law of steel billionaire Lakshmi Mittal, but has stopped short of naming Jeff Bezos as a buye…The clause that could hand Musk his $824bn payday without the milestonesBuried on page five of the 16-page CEO Performance Award Agreement is a change-in-control clause: if Tesla is acquired or merges, the operational milestones get disregarded and only the market-cap …Apollo takes easyJet private in £5.7bn dealCastlelake walked away from the bidding and Apollo Global Management stepped in to take easyJet private for £5.7bn, roughly $7.7bn at current rates. That price is a premium to where easyJet shares …UK regulator clears Warner Bros Paramount deal after concessionsBritain's competition watchdog has approved Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros after Paramount agreed to concessions, clearing one of the last major regulatory hurdles for a deal that reshapes …eBay raises outlook as Depop deal closesRevenue rose and eBay now folds Depop's Gen Z resale audience into a marketplace that has spent years fighting an image as somewhere only your parents sell things. The upgrade suggests the acquisit…Prologis takes out Segro in £14bn warehouse land grabThe largest UK corporate takeover of the year just handed America's biggest logistics landlord control of Britain's warehouse market. Prologis is paying roughly $18.8 billion for Segro, a company t…P&G pays $3.8bn for Thorne, betting supplements beat soap marginsProcter & Gamble is paying $3.8 billion for Thorne, a supplements brand, because its core categories of detergent and toothpaste are growing at low single digits while wellness supplements compound…Disney exits A+E stake to Hearst for $1.2bn, trims the cable tailDisney selling its A+E Global Media stake to Hearst for roughly $1.2 billion continues the studio's retreat from linear cable networks it no longer needs now that streaming carries the growth story…KKR and a $6.7bn radiopharma deal say private equity still wants healthcareKKR's $4.3bn purchase of Integer Holdings, a medical device components maker, lands the same week Lantheus Holdings agrees to be acquired for an initial $6.7bn, and together they confirm that healt…NYSE's owner just bought its way into the bond marketIntercontinental Exchange paying roughly $5.7bn for MarketAxess is a wager that electronic trading in corporate bonds, still dominated by phone calls and dealer relationships compared to equities, …DCC's £5.75bn sale confirms the FTSE 100 is still a shopping list for US buyersDCC, the Irish-founded, London-listed energy and distribution conglomerate, has agreed to a £5.75 billion sale to US acquirers, the latest in a run of FTSE 100 names falling to overseas bidders thi…Stripe eyeing OpenRouter puts a price on the AI model marketplaceOpenRouter has quietly become the plumbing that lets developers switch between GPT, Claude, and Llama without rewriting code, close to a payments rail for AI inference. Stripe's interest confirms t…McCormick choosing London for its listing bucks the Wall Street gravity trendA US spice giant seeking a London listing following its Unilever Foods tie-up runs against the recent trend of companies fleeing the London Stock Exchange for Wall Street's deeper liquidity and hig…CN drops its opposition to the Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern mergerCN gets expanded network access in exchange for standing down, clearing a major obstacle to the biggest US rail consolidation in decades.Frasers crosses 30% in Hugo Boss and the takeover clock starts tickingMike Ashley's Frasers Group has pushed its Hugo Boss stake past the 30% threshold that triggers a mandatory takeover offer under German securities law, forcing a decision it's been dodging for two …Iberdrola pays $2.3 billion to own Finland's grid outrightBuying 80% of Caruna gives Iberdrola direct control of a regulated Finnish electricity distribution network at a moment when European utilities are racing to lock in grid assets ahead of an expecte…A federal judge just handed state AGs leverage they didn't expect to getA temporary restraining order on a $110bn deal is rare enough that Paramount's lawyers are scrambling, and the fact several state attorneys general triggered it suggests antitrust risk on this merg…Segro's third rejection of Prologis is a price discovery exercise, not a defenceTurning down £13.5bn three times while leaving the door open is Segro's board signalling it knows what the business is worth and Prologis hasn't got there yet. Prologis is the world's largest wareh…Andrew Forrest just bet on tungsten, and defence supply chains explain whyThe Fortescue billionaire's stake in a tungsten miner sent the stock jumping, and the logic is straightforward: tungsten is a critical input for munitions and hard alloys, China controls roughly 80…Verizon cuts 3,000 jobs and hands stores to franchiseesHanding retail stores to franchise operators is how a telecom admits it doesn't want to own the fixed costs of a physical footprint anymore. The 3,000 job cuts land mostly in corporate-owned retail…ABB buys Rotork for £4.1bn, Britain's engineering base thins againAnother FTSE-listed engineering name disappears into foreign ownership, and the pattern is now too consistent to call coincidence. Swiss-Swedish industrial giant ABB is paying £4.1bn for Rotork, th…Stripe wants to buy the company it was supposed to replacePayPal was the incumbent Stripe spent fifteen years positioning itself against, and now Stripe and private equity firm Advent are offering roughly $53.4 billion to own it outright. PayPal shares ju…Uber's €12.5bn Delivery Hero deal is a bet that food delivery consolidation still has room to runUber closing in on Delivery Hero would hand it dominant positions across Europe, Asia and Latin America in one move, markets where Uber Eats has struggled to build density on its own. Delivery Hero…James Watt wants BrewDog back, and the board's shrug is the real storyWatt's bid to buy back the company he co-founded was met with something close to indifference from BrewDog's current ownership, which tells you how much has changed since he stepped back as CEO. TS…Mike Ashley won't let a good distressed asset go quietlyGatecrashing the Harvey Nichols auction is pure Ashley: he's built Frasers Group's entire strategy on picking up prestige retail names at the point of maximum distress, from House of Fraser to Spor…A Democratic AG coalition just complicated Trump's easiest merger approvalAntitrust enforcement in America now runs on two tracks, federal and state, and they're pointing in opposite directions. A coalition of Democratic state attorneys general, led out of California, fi…Rawlings changing hands again shows PE's exit problem in niche sports gearA 139-year-old brand surviving multiple ownership changes is proof the product is durable; the fact that Seidler Equity wants out now says more about PE fund cycles than about baseball. Seidler is …Kering is paying $400 million to take Gucci Beauty back from Coty ahead of schedule. That is either strategic clarity or distress signalling.Coty has agreed to hand the Gucci Beauty licence back to Kering for $400 million, ending the arrangement earlier than the contract required. Kering's motivation is straightforward in theory: bringi…Lockheed buying Ultra Maritime for $3.5bn is a bet that undersea warfare is the next defence spending priorityLockheed Martin is the frontrunner to acquire Ultra Maritime, the UK-based naval technology specialist, in a deal valued at around $3.5bn, and the strategic logic is tight: undersea warfare systems…Chanel acquires Charvet, Paris's 190-year-old bespoke shirtmakerChanel has bought Charvet, the Place Vendôme shirtmaker that has dressed heads of state since 1838, in a move that extends its control over French luxury craft supply chains rather than its consume…Nandy signals intervention in the $111bn Paramount-Warner Bros dealCulture Secretary Lisa Nandy is minded to intervene in Paramount's proposed acquisition of Warner Bros, a deal valued at roughly $111bn that would create one of the largest media companies on the p…Alcoa pays up to $5.6bn for South32's aluminium assets. The tariff bet is explicit.Alcoa is acquiring South32's alumina and bauxite portfolio in a deal worth up to $5.6bn, a major consolidation play in a sector where US tariffs have dramatically altered the economics of domestic …Comcast breaks up its media empire and Sky gets cut looseTwenty-two billion dollars and eight years after Comcast outbid Fox for Sky, the company is spinning off NBCUniversal and Sky into a standalone media entity, sending its own shares up 23 percent in…BT and Verizon's joint venture solves a decade-old problemBT and Verizon are merging their international enterprise connectivity businesses into a joint venture valued at approximately three billion pounds, with BT contributing its Global division and Ver…Rocket Lab buys Iridium and becomes a credible infrastructure rival to SpaceXRocket Lab has acquired Iridium Communications, the 66-satellite low-earth-orbit network built for voice and now carrying IoT, maritime, and defence data, transforming Rocket Lab from a launch vehi…Merck pays $11.3bn to get serious about life science toolsGermany's Merck KGaA is buying US biotech tools company Bio-Techne for $11.3 billion, a deal that cements its position in the high-margin life science reagents and instruments market rather than pu…Edgewell's shares jump after it rejects a takeover approachA target company's shares rising on a rejected bid usually means the market thinks a higher offer is coming, not that the board made the right call. Edgewell, which owns Schick and Wilkinson Sword,…