Mergers & Acquisitions

Carson Group Onboards $145 Million Firm Intrinsic Investors To Great Lakes Team

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 6:23 PM

Carson Group, an Omaha, Nebraska-based wealth advisory firm with more than $65 billion in assets under management (AUM), has announced that Intrinsic Investors, a Wisconsin-based wealth management firm overseeing approximately $145 million in AUM, has joined Carson Wealth in Great Lakes. The addition brings Wealth Advisors William "Bill" Fons and Chad Melcher, AAMS, and Operations Manager Dawn Williams to Carson's growing advisory network.

BlueWater Marinas And Bain Capital Acquire Two Marinas In Connecticut And South Carolina

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 2:57 PM

BlueWater Marinas and Bain Capital have acquired Mystic River Marina in Mystic, Connecticut, and Ripley Light Drystack Marina in Charleston, South Carolina, expanding their joint venture's portfolio of coastal marina properties. The acquisitions represent the sixth and seventh marinas acquired by the partnership, strengthening its presence in established East Coast boating markets.

Peakline Partners Acquires Kalon Capital To Expand Equipment Finance Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 2:47 PM

Peakline Partners has acquired Kalon Capital, a Stamford, Connecticut-based equipment finance company, expanding its capabilities in mid-ticket equipment financing and asset-backed private credit. The acquisition brings Kalon's financing platform and experienced management team into Peakline's investment business, strengthening its ability to originate equipment financing transactions directly and serve businesses across the United States.

Cognex To Acquire RealSense For $500 Million To Expand Into Robotic Perception And Physical AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 11:12 AM

Cognex Corporation has agreed to acquire RealSense for approximately $500 million, expanding the industrial machine vision company's capabilities into 3D robotic perception and Physical AI as demand grows for robots capable of navigating and interacting with real-world environments.

FactSet Acquires BCC Group To Expand Real-Time Market Data Solution Suite

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 8:40 AM

FactSet has announced the acquisition of BCC Group International, a financial software development firm specializing in cloud-native and hybrid market data distribution platforms. The acquisition marks a milestone in the expansion of FactSet's Real-Time Solution Suite, strengthening its market data management capabilities and building on an ongoing collaboration between the two firms since 2021.

Paramount Completes $110 Billion Warner Bros. Discovery Acquisition After Settlements

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 7:50 AM

Paramount Skydance completed its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery after settling legal challenges brought by a California-led coalition of states and the Writers Guild of America, according to Reuters.

EYKON Sells Water Meter Business To Sensus International, Sharpening Strategic Focus

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 7:20 AM

EYKON and Sensus International, both part of the AURELIUS Midmarket portfolio, have entered into an agreement under which EYKON will sell its water meter business to Sensus International. The agreement enables both organizations to focus on their respective strengths and supports EYKON's strategic focus on the areas where the company has established scale, long-standing customer relationships, and leading positions across its portfolio.

TransDigm Unit Extant Aerospace To Buy Defense And Commercial Assets For $240 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 10:32 PM

TransDigm Group Incorporated announced through a regulatory disclosure that its operating unit, Extant Aerospace, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a specialized portfolio of commercial rotorcraft, land systems, and business jet products for approximately $240 million in cash.

KPS Capital Partners To Sell Aluminum Extrusion Manufacturer Metra To Grupa Kęty For €645 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 10:26 PM

KPS Capital Partners has agreed to sell portfolio company Metra to Polish industrial group Grupa Kęty for €645 million, concluding a roughly five-year ownership period in which KPS expanded the aluminum extrusion manufacturer through acquisitions, capacity investments and entry into new markets.

Huspy Acquires LuxuryX As UAE Network Grows 75%

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 10:25 PM

Huspy has acquired Dubai-based luxury real estate brokerage LuxuryX as the AI-native real estate technology company expands deeper into premium property and prepares to launch a new luxury brand called Huspy Signature.

Aboria Capital And Partners Group Acquire £165 Million UK Student Housing Portfolio With 1,570 Beds

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 10:13 PM

Aboria Capital has completed its first transaction with the acquisition of a five-property, 1,570-bed student housing portfolio across the U.K., establishing a sizable operating platform in one of the country's most closely watched institutional real estate sectors.

Watsco To Acquire The Granite Group, Adding $500 Million Revenue Plumbing And HVAC Distributor With 82 Locations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 9:38 PM

Watsco has agreed to acquire The Granite Group, a diversified distributor of plumbing and HVAC products with approximately $500 million in annual sales, expanding Watsco's presence across the Northeast and strengthening its position in the fragmented plumbing distribution market.

Ondas Acquires GATE And Bron Technologies In Deal Worth Up To $390 Million To Expand Precision-Strike Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 9:37 PM

Ondas has acquired GATE Technologies and affiliated European manufacturer Bron Technologies in a transaction valued at $205 million upfront plus up to $185 million in performance-based consideration, giving the autonomous defense technology company a major new position in electronic safe-and-arm and fuzing systems.

Veracyte Acquires Convergent Genomics For Up To $180 Million To Add Urinary Tumor DNA Bladder Cancer Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 9:36 PM

Veracyte has acquired Convergent Genomics in a transaction valued at up to $180 million, adding the UroAmp urinary tumor DNA platform to its cancer diagnostics portfolio and expanding its ability to support bladder cancer treatment decisions using genomic information from urine, tissue and blood.

CBRE Investment Management Acquires Tenet Equity And Launches Triple Net Lease Strategy With $1.6 Billion Portfolio

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 9:31 PM

CBRE Investment Management has acquired Tenet Equity and launched a new triple net lease investment strategy, adding a fully leased $1.6 billion real estate portfolio spanning 39 states and creating a platform for additional investment in sale-leaseback transactions.

VideoLabs Acquires 332 Ericsson Network And Cybersecurity Patent Assets For New Certitude Networks Licensing Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 8:23 PM

VideoLabs has acquired a global portfolio of 332 patent assets representing 89 patent families from Ericsson, adding intellectual property covering foundational technologies used across cloud infrastructure, software-defined networking, data centers, and cybersecurity.

H.I.G. Capital Forms EverRise Lift Group By Combining Action Elevator And All City Elevator

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 8:05 PM

H.I.G. Capital has formed EverRise Lift Group through the combination of Action Elevator Company and All City Elevator, creating one of the largest independent elevator service providers in the U.S.

Rajant Acquires The Bellwether Group To Expand National Security And Mission-Ready Technology Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 7:58 PM

Rajant Corporation has acquired The Bellwether Group, combining Rajant's communications, edge computing and autonomous systems technology with Bellwether's national-security expertise, applied research capabilities and access to highly classified government environments.

fal Acquires Lucent After Agentic Creative AI Platform Surpasses 30,000 Users

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 7:56 PM

fal has acquired Lucent, an agent-based generative media platform, bringing co-founders Dimi Panagiotopoulos and Alex Koumpas into the company as it expands its technology for orchestrating AI-generated image, video and audio workflows. Financial terms were not disclosed.

BabyDoge Acquires LimeWire To Build Creator-Focused Web3 And AI Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 7:53 PM

BabyDoge has acquired LimeWire, giving the Web3 ecosystem control of one of the internet's most recognizable file-sharing brands as LimeWire prepares to shift its product strategy toward creator ownership, decentralized storage and AI.

Artemis Gold To Acquire Vista Gold In $427 Million Deal, Adding 10.5 Million-Ounce Mt Todd Resource Base

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:50 PM

Artemis Gold has agreed to acquire Vista Gold in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $427 million, adding the advanced-stage Mt Todd project in Australia's Northern Territory and establishing a potential pathway toward more than one million ounces of annual gold production.

Luca Mining To Acquire Cozamin Copper-Silver Mine For Up To $385 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:47 PM

Luca Mining has agreed to acquire the Cozamin Mine in Zacatecas, Mexico, from Capstone Copper for $290 million upfront plus as much as $95 million in deferred and contingent consideration, creating a transaction with a potential total value of $385 million.

Crane Company To Acquire Trillium U.S. Water Pump Business For $240 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:45 PM

Crane Company has agreed to acquire the U.S. pump business of First Reserve-backed Trillium Flow Technologies for approximately $240 million, expanding Crane's exposure to municipal water and wastewater infrastructure.

Perdoceo Education To Acquire South University For Up To $214 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:45 PM

Perdoceo Education Corporation has agreed to acquire South University in a transaction that could reach approximately $214 million, significantly expanding the company's graduate health sciences education platform.

Addus HomeCare To Acquire AccentCare Personal Care Business For $275 Million, Adding $280 Million In Annualized Revenue

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:43 PM

Addus HomeCare has agreed to acquire AccentCare's personal care operations outside New York for approximately $275 million, a transaction expected to add roughly $280 million in annualized revenue and materially expand Addus' nationwide home care platform.

Superhuman Acquires Fathom To Add AI Meeting Intelligence Across Email, Docs And Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:42 PM

Superhuman has acquired AI meeting assistant Fathom, adding meeting intelligence to a productivity suite spanning email, calendars, collaborative documents, databases and AI agents.

PAR Excellence Acquires Terso Solutions To Build Unified Healthcare Inventory Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:27 PM

PAR Excellence Systems has acquired Terso Solutions from Promega Corporation, combining two healthcare inventory technology platforms to provide hospitals with a more integrated system for tracking medical supplies, tissue, implants and other high-value products. Financial terms were not disclosed.

National CineMedia Completes $275 Million Captivate Acquisition, Creating 48,000-Screen Advertising Network

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:27 PM

National CineMedia has completed its $275 million acquisition of Captivate Holdings, combining its U.S. cinema advertising platform with Captivate's office and residential digital video network.

Makenita Resources Signs Option To Acquire 45,967-Acre Nova Scotia Hydrogen Project

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 3:34 PM

Makenita Resources has entered into an option agreement to acquire the 45,967-acre Cobequid-Chedabucto Hydrogen Project in Nova Scotia, significantly expanding the Canadian exploration company's portfolio with a district-scale property prospective for natural hydrogen.

Pearson Acquires Assessment Technology Provider ITS To Expand Professional Testing And AI Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 3:28 PM

Pearson has acquired Baltimore-based assessment technology company Internet Testing Systems, expanding its professional assessment business with technology spanning remote testing, proctoring, performance-based assessments, certification maintenance and AI-powered assessment. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.