Mergers & Acquisitions

NextCure And Avere Therapeutics Announce Merger And $320 Million Financing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 15, 2026

NextCure and Avere Therapeutics have entered into a definitive agreement to merge in an all-stock transaction that will create a publicly traded biotechnology company focused on developing oral therapies for inflammatory diseases driven by interleukin-23.

VetnCare Acquires Holistic Veterinary Care In Sixth Add-On Under Great Point Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 15, 2026

VetnCare, a Northern California veterinary hospital group backed by Greenwich-based healthcare private equity firm Great Point Partners, has acquired Holistic Veterinary Care, an Oakland-based practice specializing in integrative and rehabilitative animal medicine. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal marks VetnCare's sixth acquisition since Great Point Partners first invested in the company, and the first completed under CEO Matt Kirchner.

Stripe And Advent Offer More Than $53 Billion To Acquire PayPal: Report

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 15, 2026

Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have reportedly submitted a joint offer to acquire PayPal Holdings for $60.50 per share, valuing the digital payments company at more than $53 billion. The proposal is backed by approximately $50 billion in committed bank financing, according to Reuters, which cited people familiar with the confidential discussions. The offer represents a premium of roughly 28% to PayPal’s closing share price on July 14, 2026.

Zoetis To Acquire VitalRADS To Expand Veterinary Diagnostic Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 15, 2026

Zoetis has agreed to acquire VitalRADS, a veterinary teleradiology services platform, in a transaction designed to expand the company’s diagnostic imaging, specialist services, and workflow technology capabilities. The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

CSI Acquires Qolo To Expand Commercial Banking And Embedded Finance Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

CSI, a provider of end-to-end financial software and technology, has acquired Qolo, a fintech company offering treasury solutions and payments infrastructure. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Warren Buffett To Donate 12 Million Berkshire Hathaway Class B Shares To Four Foundations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Berkshire Hathaway announced that Warren E. Buffett will convert 8,000 Berkshire Hathaway Class A shares into 12 million Berkshire Hathaway Class B shares in order to donate the Class B shares to four foundations.

Catalyst Bancorp Completes Acquisition Of Lakeside Bancshares, Creating A $620 Million Community Bank Across Southwest Louisiana

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Catalyst Bancorp, the parent company of Catalyst Bank, has completed its acquisition of Lakeside Bancshares, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary Lakeside Bank, effective July 14, 2026. Lakeside shareholders received $19.58 per share in cash, representing $41.1 million in aggregate consideration. The deal was announced in April 2026.

Tempus Realty Partners Announces $42.1 Million In Arkansas Acquisitions For Tempus Evergreen Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Tempus Realty Partners, an Arkansas-based real estate investment firm, announced the acquisition of two properties totaling approximately $42.1 million for its perpetual-life investment vehicle, Tempus Evergreen. The acquisitions include five buildings spanning 336,242 square feet across roughly 22.5 acres in North Little Rock and Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Diodes To Acquire ElevATE Semiconductor For $250 Million, Expanding Analog And Mixed-Signal Portfolio

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Diodes announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ElevATE Semiconductor in an all-cash transaction valued at $250 million. ElevATE is a fabless semiconductor company based in San Diego, California, that specializes in integrated circuits for the Automated Test Equipment industry, designing low-power, high-density solutions aimed at delivering the lowest possible cost of test.

LPL Welcomes $2.4 Billion Firm HighWater Wealth To Quotient Advisor Partners Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

HighWater Wealth, a San Diego-based wealth management team serving high-net-worth individuals and families with approximately $2.4 billion in advisory assets, has joined LPL Financial's broker-dealer and registered investment adviser platform, aligning with Quotient Advisor Partners, an existing firm supporting LPL-affiliated advisors. The team moves from U.S. Bank and consists of Kristian Forster, Mike Rookus, Falko Hörnicke, Tim Davidson and Brian Rissman.

Caprock Acquires $4 Billion Firm Venturi Private Wealth To Expand Ultra-High-Net-Worth Family Office Platform In Texas And Oklahoma

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Caprock, a Boise, Idaho–based multi-family office registered investment adviser serving ultra-high-net-worth clients, has announced the acquisition of Venturi Private Wealth, an Austin-based independent wealth management firm with approximately $4 billion in assets under management. The transaction brings approximately 30 employees to Caprock, including 10 advisors, and expands the firm's footprint in Austin and Oklahoma City, where Venturi has an established presence. Terms were not disclosed.

Cribl Acquiring CardinalOps

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Cribl announced that it is acquiring CardinalOps, an agentic detection engineering company. The acquisition expands Cribl’s AI Platform for Telemetry into security operations.

SpinSci Acquires Dialog Health

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

SpinSci announced that it acquired Dialog Health, a patient communication platform used by Fortune 500 health systems, health plans, and ambulatory surgery centers.

AE Industrial Acquires Powder Alloy Corporation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

AE Industrial Partners announced that it acquired Powder Alloy Corporation, a producer of highly engineered metallic, ceramic, and thermal spray powders used in mission-critical surface enhancement and joining applications. Financial terms of the private transaction were not disclosed.

Genco Shipping Tells Shareholders To Reject Diana Shipping’s Extended $24.80 Tender Offer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Genco Shipping & Trading, the largest US-headquartered drybulk shipowner, has issued a statement urging shareholders not to tender their shares into Diana Shipping Inc.'s extended $24.80-per-share cash tender offer, which Genco's board has unanimously rejected as inadequate. The statement highlights a significant and unresolved inconsistency in Diana's conduct: Diana has separately made an indicative, non-binding proposal to the Genco board at terms above the $24.80 tender offer price, yet has still not updated its publicly filed tender offer materials to reflect those higher terms—meaning shareholders tendering at $24.80 would be accepting less than what Diana itself has indicated it may be willing to pay.

Apple Acquiring Certain SigScalr Assets

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Apple has agreed to acquire certain assets and hire employees from SigScalr, according to a notice published on the European Commission’s website.

LEHR Acquires Emergency Vehicle Upfitting Assets Of ProLogic ITS In Tenth Add-On Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

LEHR, the nation's leading emergency vehicle upfitter and a portfolio company of Broadwing Capital, has acquired the emergency vehicle upfitting assets of ProLogic ITS, a technology and public safety solutions provider headquartered in Acworth, Georgia. The transaction is LEHR's tenth add-on acquisition in approximately two years, adding six locations across Georgia, Alabama and Florida to LEHR's network of more than 30 nationwide sites and deepening the company's presence in the Southeast while unlocking new capabilities to serve federal agency fleets. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Twin Vee PowerCats Merges With USFM Corporation And Privatizes Marine Business

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Twin Vee PowerCats, a manufacturer, distributor and marketer of power sport boats, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement for a transformative transaction combining a merger involving the publicly traded company with the concurrent privatization of its boating business under the Twin Vee and Bahama Boat Works brands.

Fulton Financial Merges Blue Foundry Bank Into Fulton Bank

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Fulton Financial Corporation announced that it merged Blue Foundry Bank with and into Fulton Bank, N.A., effective July 11, 2026.

Environmental 360 Solutions Enters US Market With Acquisition Of Marcotte Disposal In Port Huron, Michigan

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Environmental 360 Solutions, Canada's fastest-growing provider of waste management, environmental and recycling and circular-economy services, has made its first entry into the United States through the acquisition of Marcotte Disposal Co., a well-established waste management company operating in Port Huron, Michigan.

Pelican Energy Partners Acquires Veridiam

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Pelican Energy Partners announced the acquisition of Veridiam from an affiliate of Equity Group Investments. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Canada Nickel To Sell Lucas Gold Project To Noble And Acquires Crawford Footprint Claims

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Canada Nickel announced that it entered into a binding letter of intent with Noble Mineral Exploration to sell the Lucas Gold Project to Noble. The agreement was signed on July 13, 2026.

CSL Group Acquires IoTM Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

CSL Group, a London-based provider of Critical Connectivity services for IoT deployments, has acquired IoTM Solutions Ltd, a cloud-native SIM and eSIM management platform that consolidates fragmented carrier systems, connectivity management platforms and eSIM workflows into a single managed service.

Vita Inclinata Technologies Signs SPAC LOI With Tavia Acquisition At $450 Million Pre-Money Enterprise Value

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Vita Inclinata Technologies, a developer of safety, precision and operational performance products for demanding environments, has signed a non-binding letter of intent with Tavia Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: TAVI), a London-headquartered special purpose acquisition company, for a business combination that would result in Vita becoming a publicly traded company through a de-SPAC transaction on Nasdaq. The proposed deal values Vita at a pre-money enterprise value of $450 million, contingent on Vita successfully completing a pending strategic acquisition in the defense and industrials market.

Construction Partners Acquires Ellsworth Construction

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Construction Partners, a vertically integrated civil infrastructure and roadway construction company operating across the Sunbelt, has completed the acquisition of Ellsworth Construction, an asphalt manufacturing and construction business headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquired operations will continue under the Ellsworth name as a branded division of CPI's existing Oklahoma platform company, Overland Corporation, with founder Nathan Ellsworth continuing to lead the business.

Anshar Labs Acquires Dealer World

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Anshar Labs announced that it acquired Dealer World, an automotive marketing and dealer solutions company. The business will operate under Drivvr AI, Anshar Labs’ automotive technology company.

White Cap Acquires Gierke Robinson Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

White Cap, a leading North American distributor of specialty construction supplies and safety products for professional contractors, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the business of Gierke Robinson Company, a distributor of concrete accessories, tools, equipment rentals and repair services serving concrete, paving and general contractors across Eastern Iowa, Western Illinois and Southwest Wisconsin. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Edgewise Therapeutics Completes $2.65 Billion Deal Of Sevasemten To Servier

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Edgewise Therapeutics has completed the sale of sevasemten and its muscular dystrophy business to Servier, an independent international pharmaceutical group, for $1.55 billion in upfront cash and up to $1.1 billion in additional regulatory and commercial milestone payments, representing aggregate potential consideration of up to $2.65 billion. The transaction, advised by Centerview Partners as exclusive financial adviser and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati as legal counsel, marks Edgewise's transition into a focused cardiovascular company with a pipeline centered on EDG-7500 for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, EDG-15400 for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, and EDG-003 for an undisclosed target.

Raymond James Welcomes b1BANK Wealth Program With $335 Million In Client Assets

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Raymond James announced that b1BANK has selected its Financial Institutions Division to support the bank’s investment program, b1 Wealth Solutions Group.

ReSpark Completes Acquisition Of UptimePM

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 13, 2026

ReSpark announced that it completed its acquisition of UptimePM, a maintenance and facility management software platform built for heavy industrial operations. UptimePM is now a wholly owned part of ReSpark and will be rebranded as ReSpark Maintenance.