Pulse 2.0

Micron Raises Planned U.S. Investment To More Than $250 Billion Through 2035

Goldman Sachs Wins $70 Billion In Retirement Asset Management Mandates From Verizon And Lockheed Martin

Latham & Watkins Adds Chris Hutchison As Project Finance Partner To Deepen Global Energy Platform

Sidley Adds Five Structured Finance And Tax Partners To Deepen Global Financing Platform

Noteefy Acquires Metolius Golf To Build Golf’s First Unified Demand And Revenue Intelligence Platform

Halma Acquires Dreampath Diagnostics To Enhance Patient-Safe Tissue Sample Management

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 11:25 AM

Halma plc has acquired Dreampath Diagnostics, a Strasbourg-based provider of automated workflow solutions for anatomical pathology laboratories. The deal strengthens Halma’s healthcare capabilities in tissue sample traceability, archiving, and lifecycle management, supporting safer and more efficient diagnostics in a critical part of the patient journey.

Latham & Watkins Adds Sascha Schubert As Brussels Antitrust Partner

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 11:13 AM

Latham & Watkins is adding Sascha Schubert as a partner in its Brussels office within the Antitrust & Competition Practice, further cementing the firm’s leadership in EU and global competition law. Schubert is widely regarded as one of Europe’s preeminent competition lawyers, with a practice focused on complex EU antitrust proceedings, merger control, and digital regulation matters, particularly in the technology and telecommunications sectors.

Bluefront Equity Acquires Majority Stake In Aquaculture Robotics Firm Meox

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 11:12 AM

Bluefront Equity has acquired a 55% majority stake in Meox AS, a fast‑growing provider of proprietary robotic cleaning solutions for the aquaculture industry. The investment was made through Bluefront Capital II, with Jaras Invest retaining a significant minority position as the second‑largest shareholder.

Citrin Cooperman Acquires LGA To Grow New England Accounting And Advisory Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 11:11 AM

Citrin Cooperman Advisors has acquired substantially all the assets of LGA, LLP, a Boston‑area accounting and business advisory firm, in a move that significantly expands its New England footprint. The deal adds roughly 150 professionals to Citrin Cooperman and deepens its capabilities for private, middle‑market businesses and high‑net‑worth individuals in the region.

CuriosityStream Takes Full Ownership Of German Operations To Accelerate International Growth

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 11:09 AM

CuriosityStream has acquired the remaining ownership interests in its German operations from longtime partners SPIEGEL TV and Autentic, giving the company full control of one of its most important international markets. The move strengthens CuriosityStream’s position across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and is intended to unlock new growth, operational efficiencies, and revenue opportunities.

Endries International Acquires Blue Chip Engineered Products To Expand High-Spec Fastener Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 11:05 AM

Endries International has acquired Blue Chip Engineered Products, a Kentucky-based supplier of custom engineered fasteners, metal stampings, and electronic hardware, in a move aimed at strengthening its position in high-specification industrial markets. The deal adds specialized design and value‑added services to Endries’ core offering in industrial fasteners, Class‑C components, and fulfillment solutions.

Paddletek Group Acquires PIKKL And Signs Top Pros To Strengthen Performance Paddle Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 11:04 AM

Paddletek Group has acquired PIKKL, an innovative performance paddle company, and signed professional pickleball stars JW Johnson, Jorja Johnson, Julie Johnson, and Hurricane Tyra Black to Team Paddletek. The moves reflect Paddletek’s push to build a bigger, bolder, and better paddle platform as pickleball continues its rapid global growth.

Latham & Watkins Adds Angie Ng As Singapore Antitrust Partner To Bolster Asia-Pacific Practice

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 11:03 AM

Latham & Watkins is bringing on Angie Ng as a partner in its Antitrust & Competition Practice, based in Singapore. Ng, widely regarded as one of Asia’s leading antitrust lawyers, will play a central role in expanding Latham’s Asia-Pacific antitrust capabilities and complementing its established China practice.

Enerpac Tool Group To Acquire SFE Group In $472 Million Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 11:00 AM

Enerpac Tool Group has agreed to acquire Specialized Fabrication Equipment Group LLC (SFE Group) from SFEG Holdings, a portfolio company of Gladstone Investment Corporation, in a transaction valued at approximately $472 million. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of Enerpac’s fiscal 2027, subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.

Carson Group Acquires $236 Million Firm Pinnacle Wealth Management

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 10:58 AM

Carson Group has acquired Pinnacle Wealth Management, a California-based advisory firm led by Managing Partners and Wealth Advisors Jack Zboralske, AIF, and Kenyon Lederer, CFP, ChFC, CFS. Under the deal, the Pinnacle team will operate as Carson Wealth and join Carson’s Roseville, California office, bringing approximately $236 million in advisory and brokerage assets.

Barracuda Acquires Evo Security To Build Unified Identity Resilience Platform For MSPs

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 10:57 AM

Barracuda Networks has acquired Evo Security, an identity and access management provider built specifically for managed service providers (MSPs), in a deal aimed at turning Barracuda’s BarracudaONE platform into a comprehensive, partner‑first identity security stack. The combination brings together Evo’s IAM and privileged access management (PAM) capabilities with Barracuda’s existing identity‑driven controls to deliver end‑to‑end identity resilience through a single, multi‑tenant platform.

Ascendant Capital Partners Buys Eight-Hotel Beachfront Portfolio In Virginia Beach And Outer Banks

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 10:56 AM

Ascendant Capital Partners has acquired an eight‑hotel portfolio from Coastal Hospitality Associates, adding 965 predominantly beachfront rooms across six properties in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and two in North Carolina’s Outer Banks. The deal fits Ascendant’s focus on institutional‑quality hospitality assets in durable, leisure‑driven destinations and gives the firm a concentrated set of oceanfront hotels with strong demand from tourism, government, military, and corporate guests.

Argosy Private Equity Backs Asset-Light Logistics Platform K&L Freight

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 10:54 AM

Argosy Private Equity has made a new platform investment in K&L Freight Management, an asset-light third‑party logistics provider focused on time‑sensitive, mission‑critical freight services. The deal supports K&L’s growth strategy across resilient, non‑discretionary end markets, including food and beverage, life sciences, energy, and other industrial sectors.

3E Acquires Yordas Group To Expand Global Product Compliance And REACH Services

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 10:50 AM

3E has acquired Yordas Group, strengthening its position as a global provider of AI‑driven compliance solutions and significantly expanding its product compliance and regulatory content capabilities. The deal brings together two specialist firms with deep expertise in chemical management, product stewardship, sustainability, and regulatory intelligence.

Assent Acquires IPOINT To Build Unified AI-Powered Product Compliance And Lifecycle Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 10:45 AM

Assent has acquired IPOINT, bringing together two specialist software providers to give manufacturers and distributors a more complete, AI‑powered view of their products — from the materials they contain to their environmental impact across the full lifecycle. The deal is Assent’s first acquisition and marks a strategic step beyond supply chain compliance into end‑to‑end product lifecycle intelligence, positioning the combined company to support emerging requirements such as Digital Product Passports and EU sustainability regulations.

Steel Partners Makes $16.75-Per-Share Cash Offer To Acquire InMode

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 10:43 AM

Steel Partners Holdings L.P., a long‑standing and significant shareholder of InMode Ltd., has sent a letter to InMode’s board offering to acquire 100% of the company’s shares for $16.75 per share in cash. The proposal represents a 20% premium to InMode’s “unaffected” share price of $13.95 and is $0.55 per share higher than a competing $16.20‑per‑share bid reportedly led by InMode’s CEO, Moshe Mizrahy.

Talon Precision Acquires Connecticut-Based Aerospace Machining Firm B & A Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 10:42 AM

Talon Precision has acquired B & A Company, a Milford, Connecticut‑based precision machining firm that has been part of the region’s Aerospace Alley supply chain since 1973. The deal, completed on March 13, 2026, supports Talon Precision’s strategy to build a premier precision manufacturing platform serving aerospace, defense, medical, semiconductor, and other mission‑critical end markets.

CVC Marathon Leads $175 Million Financing For Rentix Combination

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 10:40 AM

AEA Investors Appoints Adam Biren As Head Of Capital Formation Americas

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 9:38 AM

AEA Investors announced that Adam Biren has joined the firm as Partner and Head of Capital Formation – Americas, strengthening its investor relations and fundraising capabilities across North America. Based in New York, Biren will focus on expanding the firm’s limited partner network and deepening relationships across its private equity and private credit strategies.

Aardaia Raises €5 Million To Develop New Crops From Wild Plants

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 9:38 AM

Aardaia has raised €5 million to develop a new generation of crops by domesticating promising wild plant species into modern, farm-ready varieties. The round was led by Point Nine, with participation from FoodLabs, Astanor, Grey Silo Ventures, and several angel investors, and will be used to accelerate Aardaia’s crop development pipeline and build out its team and capabilities.

Tilray: Interview With Chairman & CEO Irwin Simon About The Diversified CPG Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 8:00 AM

Google Backs Thryve.Earth Agroforestry Project For Carbon Removal In Indonesia

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 2:31 AM

Google announced a long-term agreement with Thryve.Earth to purchase 260,000 tons of carbon removal from an agroforestry project in Sulawesi, Indonesia, marking the first agroforestry initiative included in Google’s carbon removal portfolio. The deal is structured through the Symbiosis Coalition, a collaborative platform that helps climate buyers support nature-based carbon projects.

TIFF Expands Private Equity Secondaries Platform With Senior Hires

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 2:00 AM

TIFF Investment Management has named Andrew Murray as Managing Director, Head of Secondary Investing, and Stephen Grau as Executive Director, Secondary Investing, to lead a dedicated private equity Secondaries practice within its broader alternatives platform. The move formalizes TIFF’s activity in the growing secondaries market and is aimed at giving clients more flexible ways to manage liquidity, pacing, and private equity exposure.

Meta Breaks Ground On C$13 Billion, AI-Optimized Data Center In Alberta

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 12:48 AM

Meta is breaking ground on its first data center in Canada, a 1‑gigawatt, AI‑optimized facility in Sturgeon County, Alberta that will serve as a major hub for the company’s expanding artificial intelligence and core product infrastructure. The site is Meta’s 33rd data center globally and represents an investment of more than C$13 billion (about US$9.2 billion), making it one of the company’s largest projects outside the United States.

Vendelux Raises $50 Million Series B To Scale AI-Powered B2B Event Intelligence

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 12:46 AM

Vendelux has raised a $50 million Series B round to expand its AI-powered platform that helps B2B companies identify, prioritize, and measure in‑person event opportunities. The round was led by Tribeca Venture Partners with participation from S3, Pelion Ventures, HubSpot Ventures, FirstMark, and Cervin Ventures, bringing the company’s total funding to $71 million.

Amazon Taps US Bond Market Again With $25 Billion Sale To Fund AI Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 12:43 AM

Amazon has returned to the US bond market with a new offering of at least $25 billion, adding another jumbo deal to a growing wave of AI‑linked corporate debt. The sale, structured in as many as eight tranches with maturities ranging from three to 40 years, is intended to support Amazon’s massive capital spending plans as it builds out data center and AI infrastructure for itself and its AWS cloud customers, according to Bloomberg.

Susquehanna Offers Up To $500 Million In World Cup Hedging Capacity

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 12:38 AM

Susquehanna announced it is prepared to facilitate up to $500 million in hedging transactions tied to the ongoing World Cup, targeting businesses whose commercial exposure depends on tournament outcomes. The initiative is aimed at sponsors, media and broadcast partners, hospitality firms, consumer brands, and other enterprises that face event-driven financial obligations based on how teams perform.

Cursor Integrates SpaceXAI’s New Grok 4.5 Model For Coding And Agentic Work

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 12:36 AM

Cursor has rolled out support for Grok 4.5, SpaceXAI’s latest large language model optimized for coding, agentic tasks, and complex knowledge work. Grok 4.5 is now available as a core engine inside Cursor’s AI coding environment, giving developers access to a high‑capacity model directly within their editor and workflows.

Andera Expansion Raises Record €430 Million For Fourth Growth Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 12:10 AM

Andera Partners has closed its fourth Andera Expansion fund (AE IV) at €430 million, setting a new fundraising record for the growth-focused strategy and coming in well above its original €350 million hard cap. The cap was raised twice to accommodate strong investor demand, following the €250 million AE III fund, which was also oversubscribed and closed within 12 months.

Ballast Rock Asset Management Names Michael Welch Head Of Investor Relations And Capital Formation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 12:08 AM

Ballast Rock Asset Management has appointed Michael G. Welch, CFA, as Head of Investor Relations and Capital Formation, a newly created role focused on expanding the firm’s capital base and investor relationships. Welch will lead outreach across accredited individual investors, RIAs, family offices, and institutional investors as Ballast Rock scales its real estate, venture capital, and private credit platforms.