Mergers & Acquisitions

QXO To Buy Beacon Roofing Supply For $11 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 8:24 AM

QXO and Beacon Roofing Supply announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which QXO will acquire Beacon for $124.35 per share in cash. Beacon is a leading distributor of roofing, waterproofing and exterior products, with nearly 600 branches across the U.S. and Canada.

Kraken To Buy NinjaTrader For $1.5 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 8:22 AM

Kraken, which is one of the most longest-standing, liquid, and secure crypto platforms serving over 15 million clients globally, announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire NinjaTrader, which is the leading U.S. retail futures trading platform, for $1.5 billion, subject to certain purchase price adjustments.

JSI Buying Contact Center Services Company LogicomUSA

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 19, 2025

Stone-Goff Partners (SGP), a lower middle-market private equity firm investing in technology-driven business-to-business service companies, announced the acquisition of LogicomUSA, a premier provider of voice, network, and 24/7 contact center services to broadband providers and electric cooperatives nationwide, by SGP portfolio company JSI.

Wabtec Buying Dellner Couplers For $960 Million In Cash

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 19, 2025

Wabtec agreed to buy Dellner Couplers, a global leader in highly engineered safety-critical train connection systems and services for passenger rail rolling stock. The acquisition brings highly attractive and complementary technologies to Wabtec and positions the company for accelerated, profitable growth while strengthening its portfolio of passenger rail systems.

Clario Buying Imaging Analysis Company NeuroRx

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 19, 2025

Clario - a leading provider of endpoint data solutions to the clinical trial industry - announced they have acquired NeuroRx, a leader in imaging analysis with expertise in multiple sclerosis.

Merit Buys $1.6 Billion Firm Sanctuary Wealth Management

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 19, 2025

Merit Financial Advisors, a Georgia-based financial advisory firm specializing in financial planning and wealth management solutions for high-net-worth individuals, families, and those navigating life transitions, announced it has acquired Sanctuary Wealth Management and Fiduciary Services (FS). This deal enables Merit to establish a presence in Idaho and grow its assets collectively by $1.6 billion.

JLL Income Property Trust: Richmond Distribution Center Acquired For About $40.7 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

JLL Income Property Trust, an institutionally managed daily NAV REIT with around $6.6 billion in portfolio equity and debt investments, announced the acquisition of Richmond Distribution Center, a Class A industrial building located in Richmond, VA, for a purchase price of about $40.7 million.

Integrated Partners: $331 Million Prout Financial Design Team Onboarded

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Integrated Partners - a national financial planning and registered investment advisory (RIA) firm serving over $21.3 billion in assets under advisement (AUA) - announced that Prout Financial Design has joined its growing network. And the Traverse City, Michigan-based advisory firm, which oversees over $331 million in AUA, will utilize Integrated’s investment management platform and succession planning support to drive future growth and continuity.

Investcorp Buying Majority Stake In Miebach

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Global alternative investment firm Investcorp announced it has signed a definitive agreement to buy a majority stake in Miebach Logistik Holding GmbH, a leading global supply chain and logistics consultancy services provider. Following the deal, Miebach’s existing equity partnership will retain a significant minority stake in the Company. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

PartnerOne Buying NetWitness From RSA

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

PartnerOne, which is one of the fastest growing enterprise software conglomerates, announced it has successfully acquired NetWitness from RSA.

AstraZeneca To Buy EsoBiotec For Up To $1 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

AstraZeneca announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire EsoBiotec, a biotechnology company pioneering in vivo cell therapies with promising early clinical activity. And the EsoBiotec Engineered NanoBody Lentiviral (ENaBL) platform enables the immune system to attack cancers and could offer many more patients access to transformative cell therapy treatments delivered in just minutes rather than the current process which takes weeks.

Banyan Software: Interview With CEO David Berkal About The Enterprise Acquisition Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Banyan Software provides a home for successful enterprise software businesses, their employees, and customers to preserve the legacy of founders while helping grow the business into the future. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Banyan Software CEO David Berkal to learn more about the company.

Google To Buy Cloud Security Company Wiz In $32 Billion All-Cash Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Google announced today it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Wiz, a leading cloud security platform based in New York, for $32 billion, subject to closing adjustments, in an all-cash transaction. After the deal is closed, Wiz will join Google Cloud.

PepsiCo To Buy poppi For $1.95 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 17, 2025

PepsiCo announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to buy fast-growing prebiotic soda brand poppi for $1.95 billion, including $300 million of anticipated cash tax benefits for a net purchase price of $1.65 billion.

Bilt Rewards Buying Banyan For Transforming The Housing Payments Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 17, 2025

Bilt Rewards, a leading payments and commerce platform transforming the massive housing payments market, announced the acquisition of Banyan - which is the industry-leading platform for item-level receipt data. This strategic deal (Bilt's first) significantly expands Bilt's ability to create innovative, frictionless experiences that drive neighborhood commerce and deliver unprecedented value to residents and local merchants.

LPL Onboards $475 Million Advisor Team Carnegie Private Wealth

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 17, 2025

LPL Financial announced that financial advisors James Larsen, CFP, Lucas Decker, CFP, Kevin Lewis, CFP, CEPA, and Seth Miller, CFP, CEPA, have joined LPL Financial’s broker-dealer, Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) and custodial platforms, aligned with Carnegie Private Wealth (an existing firm supported by LPL Strategic Wealth). And the advisors reported serving about $475 million in advisory, brokerage and retirement assets. Larsen joins LPL from Wells Fargo Advisors, and Decker, Lewis and Miller join from Edward Jones.

Wonder: Food Delivery Company Acquiring Tastemade

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 17, 2025

Wonder - the food delivery company founded by Marc Lore - announced it is buying media company Tastemade.

Summit Financial Onboards $830 Million Firm Gateway Advisory

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 16, 2025

Summit Financial - a preeminent investment advisory firm with 40+ years of experience providing market-leading multi-family office services that enable financial advisors to accelerate growth- announced that Gateway Advisory is the latest firm to join its expanding network. This marks Summit’s 21st strategic investment since the start of 2024, enhancing its status as a premier partner for forward-thinking advisory firms seeking accelerated growth and enhanced capabilities.

Gemspring Capital Buying Loss Prevention Company Appriss Retail

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 16, 2025

Gemspring Capital Management (a middle-market private equity firm) announced that an affiliate has acquired Appriss Retail, a leading provider of AI-based analytics and loss prevention software for retailers. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

UiPath Buying Peak For Launching Vertically Specialized Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 16, 2025

UiPath announced the acquisition of Peak, an AI-native company based in Manchester, United Kingdom. Peak's AI platform optimizes product inventory and pricing for businesses of all sizes and across a wide range of industries, offering customers with tangible outcomes quickly and without the need for large, in-house tech teams.

Qualcomm To Buy EdgeImpulse For Supporting IoT Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 16, 2025

At the Embedded World Germany event, Qualcomm announced the entry into an agreement to buy EdgeImpulse, which will enhance its offering for developers and expand its leadership in AI-based capabilities to power AI-enabled products and services across IoT. The closing of this deal is subject to customary closing conditions.

Toyota Tsusho America To Buy Radius Recycling In $1.34 Billion Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 15, 2025

Radius Recycling announced it had entered into a definitive merger agreement with Toyota Tsusho America, a U.S. subsidiary of Toyota Tsusho. Toyota Tsusho America will buy all the shares of Radius for $30 per share in cash, representing an approximate 115% premium to Radius’ closing share price on March 12, 2025. This means the deal has a total enterprise value of about $1.34 billion.

Crown Castle Selling Fiber Business For Combined $8.5 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 15, 2025

Archrock To Buy Natural Gas Compression Systems In $357 Million Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 14, 2025

Archrock and Natural Gas Compression Systems, a high-quality provider of contract gas compression services, announced that they have entered into definitive agreements under which Archrock will acquire NGCSI and NGCSE in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $357 million.

Bristol Myers Squibb Buying 2seventy bio In $286 Million Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 14, 2025

2seventy bio announced a definitive merger agreement under which Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) will buy all of the outstanding shares of 2seventy bio for $5 per share in an all-cash deal for a total equity value of approximately $286 million, or $102 million net of estimated cash. The deal represents an 88% premium to the closing price of $2.66 on March 7, 2025.

Eaton Signs Deal To Buy Fibrebond For $1.4 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 14, 2025

Intelligent power management company Eaton announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Fibrebond Corporation, a designer and builder of pre-integrated modular power enclosures for data center, industrial, utility and communications customers.

NV5 Buying Commissioning Assessment Services Herman Cx

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 14, 2025

NV5, a provider of technology, certification, and consulting solutions, announced that it completed the acquisition of Herman Cx, a provider of commissioning and conformity assessment services for hyperscale data centers. Launched in 2016, Herman Cx supports data center infrastructure for U.S. technology companies, the financial services sector, and co-location data centers across the U.S.

zSpace Buying BlocksCAD For Transforming 3D Design And STEM Education

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 14, 2025

zSpace, a leader in augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) education, announced the acquisition of BlocksCAD, a platform specializing in 3D design and modeling for STEM education. The acquisition strengthens zSpace’s commitment to transforming education through innovative technology and expands its capabilities to deliver engaging, hands-on learning experiences for students worldwide.

Rocket Lab To Buy Laser Communications Provider Mynaric

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 14, 2025

Rocket Lab USA (a global leader in launch services and space systems) announced it has entered into a non-binding term sheet with specific lenders to acquire a controlling equity position in Mynaric AG. Mynaric is a leading provider of laser optical communications terminals for air, space, and mobile applications.

Herbalife Buying Assets Of Pro2col Health And Pruvit Ventures

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 14, 2025

Herbalife, a health and wellness company, community, and platform, announced it has entered into a binding memorandum of understanding to acquire 100% of Pro2col Health and Pruvit Ventures assets and a 51% controlling ownership interest in Link BioSciences.