Mergers & Acquisitions

Cerberus To Sell Resonant Sciences To Joby Aviation, Creating Dedicated Joby Defense Business

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 12, 2026

Cerberus Capital Management has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Resonant Sciences to Joby Aviation. Dayton, Ohio-based Resonant develops and manufactures advanced radar, navigation, communications, radio frequency, sensing, and mission systems for U.S. national security customers. Its capabilities also include low-observability technologies, electronic countermeasures, and autonomous systems.

Viome Acquires Circulate Health To Combine Precision Diagnostics With Therapeutic Plasma Exchange

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 12, 2026

Viome Life Sciences has acquired Circulate Health, bringing together Viome’s molecular diagnostics and precision nutrition platform with Circulate’s physician-guided therapeutic plasma exchange capabilities.

EnableComp Acquires Helix Advisory To Expand AI-Driven Hospital Revenue Recovery

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 12, 2026

EnableComp has acquired Helix Advisory, a Cincinnati-based revenue recovery company whose technology is designed to identify hospital underpayments that can be missed by traditional rules-based audit systems.

Context Labs Acquires Kinertic As Trafigura Makes Strategic Investment And Signs Multi-Year Agreement

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 12, 2026

Context Labs has acquired Agora (Europe) Limited and its Kinertic carbon-intelligence platform from Trafigura as part of a broader strategic relationship that also includes an equity investment and multi-year commercial agreement.

Merit Financial Advisors Buys $900 Million Firm Bridgeway Group

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 12, 2026

Merit Financial Advisors has acquired The Bridgeway Group, a Southern California wealth management firm overseeing approximately $900 million in assets. Bridgeway has offices in Pasadena and Covina and is led by longtime partners Matt Dupon, Sean Montgomery, and Scott Miller. Its nine-person team provides financial planning and investment management services with a particular focus on retirement planning.

Hightower Advisors Acquires Valley Financial Group With $275 Million In AUM

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 11, 2026

Hightower Advisors announced that Valley Financial Group, an independent wealth management practice based in Ambler, Pennsylvania, will join Hightower Signature Wealth, the firm's fully integrated national wealth management practice.

Ferguson: Eight Acquisitions Add $1.4 Billion Of Annualized Revenue As Non-Residential Sales Rise 8%

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 11, 2026

Ferguson's acquisition strategy has added approximately $1.4 billion of aggregate annualized revenue through eight transactions announced year-to-date as the distributor continues consolidating specialized plumbing, HVAC, waterworks and industrial markets.

La Rosa Holdings: Strategic Review Targets Transformational Deals, Acquisitions And Asset Divestitures

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 11, 2026

La Rosa Holdings has launched a comprehensive review of strategic alternatives as the real estate and PropTech company evaluates potential transformational transactions, acquisitions, partnerships and asset divestitures intended to strengthen its operating platform and enhance long-term shareholder value.

Archer To Acquire Boeing’s Wisk Aero, Insitu And SkyGrid As Boeing Takes Strategic Stake

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Archer Aviation has signed definitive agreements to acquire Boeing subsidiaries Wisk Aero, SkyGrid and Insitu, creating what the companies describe as an end-to-end physical AI platform spanning commercial aerospace, defense and air traffic management.

Safe Harbor To Acquire MarineMax In $1.5 Billion All-Cash Deal Backed By Blackstone Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Safe Harbor Marinas, a Blackstone Infrastructure portfolio company, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MarineMax in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $1.5 billion.

Yum China Completes $1.2 Billion Acquisition Of Pizza Hut Brand In Mainland China

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Yum China Holdings has completed its $1.2 billion acquisition of ownership of the Pizza Hut brand in Mainland China from Yum! Brands. The deal was originally announced on June 16, 2026.

Rockefeller Global Family Office Adds Jones Wealth Partners And Expands Into Columbus

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Rockefeller Global Family Office has added Jones Wealth Partners, a veteran wealth management team from Merrill Lynch, establishing a new office in Columbus, Ohio. The move expands Rockefeller’s presence in Ohio, where the firm already maintains offices in Cincinnati and Cleveland.

I Squared Capital To Acquire oOh!media For A$1.04 Billion Enterprise Value

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

I Squared Capital has entered into a Scheme Implementation Agreement to acquire Australian out-of-home advertising company oOh!media Limited in a transaction implying an enterprise value of approximately A$1.04 billion, or about US$733 million.

AlphaCore Wealth Adds $700 Million Firm Brave Family Advisors

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 7, 2026

AlphaCore Wealth Advisory has added Brave Family Advisors, a boutique wealth management practice overseeing approximately $700 million in client assets, expanding AlphaCore’s presence in the Northeast.

Mitsubishi Electric To Fully Acquire Polish Rail Equipment Manufacturer MEDCOM

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 7, 2026

Mitsubishi Electric has agreed to acquire the remaining shares of Polish rail electrical equipment manufacturer MEDCOM through its wholly owned subsidiary Mitsubishi Electric Europe.

Dream Finders Homes To Acquire Beazer Homes For $2.2 Billion, Creating Sixth-Largest U.S. Homebuilder

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 7, 2026

Dream Finders Homes has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Beazer Homes USA in an all-cash transaction with an enterprise value of approximately $2.2 billion. Beazer shareholders will receive $33.50 in cash for each share, representing an implied price-to-book multiple of approximately 0.8 times.

KKR To Acquire Medicover India And Its 24-Hospital Network

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 7, 2026

KKR has signed definitive agreements to acquire Medicover India, the Indian hospital operations of international healthcare and diagnostics company Medicover AB. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Allworth Financial Acquires $1.1 Billion Firm Sachetta And Arthur Stein Financial

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 7, 2026

Allworth Financial has acquired Sachetta, a Massachusetts-based wealth and tax advisory firm with approximately $1.1 billion in assets under management. And Allworth also announced the acquisition of Arthur Stein Financial, a Bethesda, Maryland-based registered investment advisor specializing in comprehensive financial planning for federal employees and retirees.