Mergers & Acquisitions

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners Acquires 408 MW Gawara Baya Wind Project With AUD 1.7 Billion Financing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 31, 2026

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, through its Copenhagen Infrastructure V flagship fund, has acquired the Gawara Baya hybrid renewable energy project in North Queensland from Windlab and reached financial close with an AUD 1.7 billion financing package.

Samsung Biologics Launches CHF 1.46 Billion PolyPeptide Tender Offer At 40% Premium

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 31, 2026

Samsung Biologics has published the prospectus for its public tender offer for all publicly held shares of PolyPeptide Group, advancing a transaction carrying an implied aggregate equity value of approximately CHF 1.46 billion.

SLB To Acquire Kelvion For $3.4 Billion As Data Center Revenue Target Reaches $5 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 31, 2026

SLB has agreed to acquire thermal management company Kelvion for approximately $3.4 billion in cash and assume approximately $700 million of debt, significantly expanding its exposure to AI data center infrastructure.

Athena Agentic Acquires Omni Cyber Solutions Agentic Platform In Second Deal In Under 60 Days

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 31, 2026

Athena Agentic has acquired the Omni Cyber Solutions Agentic Platform, adding artificial intelligence-powered cybersecurity technology and intellectual property to its Unified Cyber Operations Platform.

Tri-County Bancorp Completes Mayville Financial Merger, Creating $734 Million-Asset Michigan Community Bank

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 31, 2026

Tri-County Bancorp has completed its merger with Mayville Financial Corporation, combining two longstanding Michigan community banking organizations into a company with approximately $734 million in total assets.

ONEOK To Acquire Brazos Midstream Assets For $4.425 Billion As Apollo Invests $9 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 31, 2026

ONEOK has agreed to acquire Brazos Midstream's Permian Midland Basin natural gas gathering and processing assets for $4.425 billion in cash, while Apollo will make a separate $9 billion nonvoting minority equity investment designed to fund the acquisition and accelerate ONEOK's deleveraging.

Landmark Credit Union Acquires North Shore Bank McHenry Branch, Adding $30+ Million In Deposits

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 31, 2026

Landmark Credit Union has completed its acquisition of North Shore Bank's branch in McHenry, Illinois, adding more than $30 million in deposits and expanding its physical presence in McHenry County.

Bernhard Capital Acquires Revenew To Launch Infrastructure Services Platform After $2+ Billion In Client Recoveries

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 31, 2026

Bernhard Capital Partners has acquired Revenew and established a new Infrastructure-Focused Professional Services platform around the Houston-based cost recovery and performance consulting company.

Deloitte Acquires Wavicle To Expand Databricks Data And AI Engineering Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 31, 2026

Deloitte has acquired substantially all of the assets of Wavicle Data Solutions, expanding its Artificial Intelligence and Data practice with additional Databricks engineering capabilities and industry-specific data expertise.

Pye-Barker Acquires Suppression Systems As Fire Safety Platform Tops 250 Locations And 9,000 Employees

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 31, 2026

Pye-Barker Fire & Safety has acquired Suppression Systems, expanding its fire suppression and special hazard capabilities across Washington and Oregon.

RedHill Divests Talicia To Apotex For Up To $53 Million To Fund Commercial Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 31, 2026

RedHill Biopharma has divested its 70% interest in the Talicia business to a subsidiary of Apotex Health for $18 million in upfront cash, plus up to $35 million in potential worldwide net sales milestone payments.

Construction Partners Acquires Asphalt Express To Add Liquid Asphalt Supply And Future Oklahoma Terminal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 31, 2026

Construction Partners has acquired Asphalt Express Enterprises, expanding the company's vertical integration with liquid asphalt supply, transportation infrastructure and a rail-served industrial site supporting operations in Oklahoma and North Texas.

CollPlant To Acquire LightSolver As Laser Processing Unit Targets 2028 Commercial Launch

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 31, 2026

CollPlant Biotechnologies has signed a definitive agreement to acquire LightSolver, moving the Nasdaq-listed regenerative medicine company into photonic computing and supercomputing through an equity-heavy transaction tied to technological and commercial milestones.

Sierra Ridge Moves 40 Advisors And About $2.1 Billion In AUA To Cetera

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 31, 2026

Sierra Ridge Advisor Group has selected Cetera as its new broker-dealer partner, moving approximately 40 affiliated advisors and roughly $2.1 billion in assets under administration from LPL after only 13 months. The California-based advisor group is led by co-founders James Slaughter and Giancarlo Foti and will join the Cetera Networks community within Cetera's Large Enterprise channel.

Farmers & Merchants Bank Sells $1 Billion Of 1.43%-Yield Bonds And Redeploys Capital At 5.13%

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 31, 2026

Farmers & Merchants Bank of Long Beach has completed a major balance sheet repositioning that included selling approximately $1 billion of low-yielding municipal bonds and redeploying capital toward substantially higher-yielding securities, debt reduction and new lending capacity.

Ranger Energy Services To Acquire STEP U.S. Coiled Tubing Assets For $27.5 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 31, 2026

Ranger Energy Services has agreed to acquire STEP Energy Services' U.S. coiled tubing assets for approximately $27.5 million, a transaction expected to make Ranger the second-largest onshore coiled tubing operator in the Lower 48.

Levine Leichtman Capital Partners Acquires The Colt Group In Fifth Fund VII Platform Investment

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 31, 2026

Levine Leichtman Capital Partners has acquired The Colt Group in partnership with management, expanding the private equity firm's portfolio of infrastructure and mission-critical industrial services businesses.

EQT Completes $3.2 Billion Coller Capital Combination As AUM Reaches €341 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 31, 2026

EQT has completed its combination with Coller Capital in a transaction carrying $3.2 billion of base consideration, establishing Coller EQT as a new secondaries business within the global private markets investment platform.

Lilly To Acquire Merida Biosciences For Up To $2.875 Billion To Expand Precision Autoimmune And Allergy Pipeline

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 31, 2026

Eli Lilly and Company has agreed to acquire Merida Biosciences for up to $2.875 billion in cash, adding a precision immunology platform designed to selectively eliminate disease-causing antibodies across autoimmune and allergic conditions.

IRG Acquires 422,727-Square-Foot St. Paul Distribution Facility With 36 Dock Doors And Rail Spur

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 31, 2026

Industrial Realty Group has acquired a 422,727-square-foot industrial distribution facility in South St. Paul, Minnesota, expanding its Twin Cities portfolio with a rail-served cross-dock property.

Westbridge To Sell Red Willow Solar-Plus-Storage Project For Up To C$26.725 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 31, 2026

Westbridge Renewable Energy has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Red Willow solar-plus-storage project in Alberta in a transaction that could generate total receivables of C$26.725 million if all contractual conditions and milestones are achieved.

Aon Acquiring USI Insurance Services For $17 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 31, 2026

KKR has signed a definitive agreement to sell USI Insurance Services to Aon for $17 billion in cash, marking a major monetization for KKR's Strategic Holdings portfolio and generating substantial returns on an investment that began nearly a decade ago.

Capital Numbers Acquires Epitome Cloud For ₹40 Crore To Expand U.S. Salesforce And Enterprise Technology Business

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 30, 2026

Capital Numbers has completed the acquisition of 100% of Epitome Cloud for ₹40 crore, adding U.S.-based Salesforce and enterprise transformation capabilities to its digital engineering, cloud, data and artificial intelligence platform.

Kiva Sales & Service And Petalfast Complete Merger As 8 New Brands Join Combined Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 30, 2026

Kiva Sales & Service and Petalfast have completed their previously announced merger, combining two cannabis sales and distribution businesses into a single platform with plans to expand beyond California. The transaction closed August 17, 2026 after initially being announced in March.

Gravity 360 Acquires Med-Lake Laboratory To Expand Diagnostics Platform Across Georgia And Alabama

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 30, 2026

Gravity 360 has acquired Med-Lake Laboratory, expanding the parent company of Gravity Diagnostics into Georgia and Alabama as it builds a larger diagnostics platform across the southern U.S. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

capSpire Acquires FinTark As Consultant Base Grows More Than 30% To Around 400 Across 20 Countries

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 30, 2026

capSpire has acquired London-based FinTark, expanding the technology consulting firm's capabilities across commodity trading, risk management, European energy markets and global metals.

CrossCountry Mortgage Completes Acquisition Of Two Harbors Investment To Create Vertically Integrated Lender

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 30, 2026

CrossCountry Mortgage, the nation's number one retail mortgage lender, has completed its acquisition of Two Harbors Investment and its wholly owned subsidiary, RoundPoint Mortgage Servicing. The transaction marks a significant milestone in CCM's evolution, substantially expanding its servicing scale and bringing servicing operations in-house.

BiomEdit Acquires Folium Science To Expand Programmable Veterinary Biologics

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 30, 2026

BiomEdit, an animal health biotechnology company, has acquired Folium Science's technology platform and pipeline assets, including BiomElix One, a poultry feed additive approved in Brazil. The transaction adds an approved product asset and a complementary CRISPR-based microbiome technology to BiomEdit's existing capabilities and broadens the company's pipeline across animal health and nutrition. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Ballard Completes GeoPura Acquisition For £275 Million Upfront, Creating Integrated Hydrogen Energy Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 30, 2026

Ballard Power Systems has completed its acquisition of GeoPura for £275 million in upfront consideration, combining Ballard's fuel cell technology with GeoPura's hydrogen generation, distribution and Energy-as-a-Service operations.

Energy Fuels Completes Australian Strategic Materials Acquisition As NdFeB Alloy Capacity Targets 3,600 Tonnes Annually

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 30, 2026

Energy Fuels has completed its acquisition of Australian Strategic Materials, expanding the company's rare earth platform into commercial metal and alloy production as it works toward a vertically integrated Western mine-to-magnet supply chain.