Mergers & Acquisitions

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.

Euna Solutions Buying AmpliFund To Expand Grant Management Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 14, 2025

Euna Solutions, a provider of SaaS solutions for the public sector, announced the acquisition of AmpliFund, a leading grant management platform provider. And this strategic move enhances Euna Solutions’ existing grant management product suite, further solidifying its commitment to delivering innovative and comprehensive tools for government agencies, nonprofits, and other public sector organizations.

Scopely Buying Niantic’s Games Business In $3.5 Billion Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 14, 2025

Scopely, which is the #1 mobile games company in the U.S., announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Niantic’s games business. This deal, valued at $3.5 billion, will bring Niantic’s entire team of exceptional gamemakers and category-leading games Pokémon GO, Pikmin Bloom, and Monster Hunter Now to Scopely’s portfolio, among other apps and live experiences. At Scopely, the Niantic game teams will continue pursuing their ambitious roadmaps, led by their long-time game studio leaders Kei Kawai and Ed Wu.

Quorum Software Buying zdSCADA To Enhance Upstream On Demand Suite

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 14, 2025

Quorum Software, a leading worldwide energy software provider, announced that it has acquired zdSCADA, a leader in cloud-based supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) technology. This deal enhances Quorum’s comprehensive Upstream On Demand suite, integrating SCADA to provide real-time well data for production management.

Redbrick Buying Newsletter Advertising Platform Paved

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 14, 2025

Redbrick, a company that builds, acquires, and supports innovative businesses, announced its acquisition of Paved, a newsletter advertising platform connecting publishers and advertisers. And Paved’s premium marketplace connects top advertisers like Uber, DoorDash, and Salesforce with 253 million newsletter subscribers across 3,000+ publishers including NYT, NBC, and Bloomberg.

Accenture To Buy Construction Consultancy Company Soben

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 14, 2025

Accenture announced it has agreed to acquire Soben, a global provider of construction consultancy services, headquartered in Glasgow, Scotland. And Soben's expertise in data center development and the pharmaceutical and energy industries will boost Accenture’s capital projects capabilities in advisory as well as project, cost, and commercial management for clients.

Teradyne To Buy Quantifi Photonics

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 13, 2025

Teradyne announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Quantifi Photonics, a leader in photonic IC testing. And the acquisition is expected to close in the second quarter of 2025, subject to customary closing conditions.

Compound Planning: Digital Family Office Grows To $3 Billion AUM

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Compound Planning—a leading digital family office committed to reimagining wealth management for next-generation advisors—announced that seven financial advisors, including a four-person advisory team that previously managed $1.2 billion, have joined the firm. The latest additions cement what has been a period of rapid growth for the firm. And Compound eclipsed $3 billion in total assets under management (“AUM”) as of January 31, after the firm added 30 total advisors and doubled its AUM in 2024.

Honeywell Buying Sundyne In $2.16 Billion Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 11, 2025

Honeywell recently announced that it has agreed to acquire Sundyne from private equity firm Warburg Pincus for $2.16 billion in an all-cash transaction. This deal represents approximately 14.5x 2024 EBITDA on a tax-adjusted basis. Sundyne is a leader in the design, manufacturing, and aftermarket support of highly engineered pumps and gas compressors used in process industries.

EP Wealth Advisors Buying $190 Million Firm The Holben Group

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 11, 2025

EP Wealth Advisors - a leading fee-only registered investment adviser (RIA) with a growing national footprint - has announced their partnership with The Holben Group in Denver, Colorado. This alignment builds on EP Wealth’s long-time presence in Colorado, adding over $190 million in assets under management (AUM).

Rocket Companies Buying Digital Real Estate Brokerage Redfin In $1.75 Billion Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Rocket Companies, a Detroit-based fintech platform consisting of mortgage, real estate, and personal finance businesses, announced today that it has agreed to purchase Redfin, a leading digital real estate brokerage, in an all-stock transaction for $12.50 per Redfin share, or $1.75 billion of equity value.

ServiceNow Buying Moveworks In $2.85 Billion Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Today, ServiceNow announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Moveworks. The acquisition will combine ServiceNow’s agentic AI and automation strengths with Moveworks’ front-end AI assistant and enterprise search technology to unlock new experiences for every employee in every corner of the business.

American Express To Buy Expense Management Software Company Center

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 7, 2025

American Express announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Center, which is a software company modernizing expense management.

DNO To Buy Sval Energi In $1.6 Billion Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 7, 2025

DNO ASA, the Norwegian oil and gas operator, announced it has agreed to acquire 100 percent of the shares of Sval Energi Group AS from HitecVision for a cash consideration of USD 450 million based on an enterprise value of $1.6 billion.

LPL Brings In $190 Million FA Michael Carmichael

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 7, 2025

LPL Financial announced that financial advisor Michael Carmichael, RFC, CRPS, founder of Carmichael Financial, announced it has joined LPL Financial’s broker-dealer, Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) and custodial platforms. He reported serving about $190 million in advisory, brokerage and retirement plan assets* and joins LPL from Osaic.

Walgreens Boots Alliance To Go Private In A Deal Valued Up To $23.7 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 7, 2025

Drugstore chain Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) announced it is going private in a $10 billion deal with private equity firm Sycamore Partners. Sycamore will pay $11.45 per share, which is a premium of 8% to the stock's closing price of $10.60 on Thursday. The total value of the deal is up to $23.7 billion. Sycamore Partners specializes in retail and consumer investments and has a track record of buying distressed retailers for profit, like Staples, Talbots, and Nine West.

LPL Onboards $1.15 Billion Townsgate Wealth Management Team

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 6, 2025

LPL Financial announced that financial advisors Jim Murray, Larry Bernstein, Abby Goldstein, CFP, Michael Kazmer, CFP, Brett Goldberg and Wesley Wong of Townsgate Wealth Management have joined LPL Financial’s broker-dealer, Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) and custodial platforms. And they reported serving about $1.15 billion in advisory, brokerage and retirement assets* and join LPL from Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network.

Jazz Pharmaceuticals Buying Chimerix For About $935 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 6, 2025

Jazz Pharmaceuticals and Chimerix announced a definitive agreement for Jazz to buy Chimerix for $8.55 per share in cash, representing a total consideration of approximately $935 million. Both companies have approved the deal, which is expected to close in the second quarter of 2025.

LPL Adds $400 Million Servant Path Wealth Partners Team

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 5, 2025

LPL Financial announced financial advisors Joe Young, CFP, and Ryne Stokes, CFP, have joined LPL’s employee advisor channel Linsco by LPL Financial to launch Servant Path Wealth Partners. And they reported serving about $400 million in advisory, brokerage and retirement plan assets and joined LPL from Synovus Securities.

ADNOC And OMV Merging To Create $60+ Billion Polyolefin Giant

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 4, 2025

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and Austria-based OMV announced they will merge and create a $60+ billion chemical giant. This merged entity will be called Borouge Group International, which will acquire Nova Chemicals for $13.4 billion from Mubadala for $13.4 billion and create the world’s fourth-largest polyolefins player following the recontribution of Borouge-4 (at cost of about $7.5 billion) as measured by nameplate capacity with 13.6 mtpa of capacity across Europe, the Middle East and North America.

Flexera: Acquisition Of NetApp’s Spot FinOps Portfolio Completed

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 3, 2025

Flexera, a leader in technology spending and risk management, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Spot from NetApp. The acquisition is Flexera’s latest step towards providing comprehensive solutions to help organizations confront growing cloud cost and usage hurdles, especially as the consumption of artificial intelligence (AI) surges and strains cloud budgets.

IBM To Buy DataStax For Enhancing watsonx Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 1, 2025

IBM announced its intent to buy DataStax, an AI and data solution provider. And DataStax's technology will enhance IBM's watsonx portfolio of products accelerating the use of generative AI, helping companies unlock value from vast amounts of unstructured data.

Zendesk To Buy Local Measure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 1, 2025

Zendesk, a leader in AI-based service, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Local Measure, a leading provider of CCaaS and advanced voice solutions and a long-time AWS partner. This deal accelerates Zendesk's expansion into larger, more complex service environments, enhances its AI voice capabilities, and strengthens its integration with Amazon Connect, which is AWS's enterprise-ready AI-based cloud contact center solution that helps companies deliver superior customer service at a lower cost.

VSE Corporation To Sell Fleet Segment In $230 Million Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 1, 2025

VSE, a leading provider of aftermarket distribution and repair services, announced that the company has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Fleet business segment, Wheeler Fleet Solutions, to One Equity Partners (OEP) for up to $230 million in total consideration.

Grovecourt Capital Partners: Acquisition Of Intraoperative MRI Solutions Company IMRIS

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 1, 2025

Grovecourt Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in West Palm Beach, Florida, announced the acquisition of IMRIS Imaging, the global leader in intraoperative MRI solutions. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Tenstreet Buying TextLocate For Augmenting Driver Communications

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 1, 2025

Tenstreet, a leading truck driver recruiting and software solutions provider for the trucking industry, announced its acquisition of TextLocate, a leading provider of driver communications for third-party logistic providers.