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Bilzin Sumberg Adds Tax And Private Wealth Lawyers Mauricio Rivero And Adriana Ortiz

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 9, 2026

Bilzin Sumberg expanded its Tax and Private Wealth practice with the addition of Mauricio D. Rivero as a partner and Adriana O. Ortiz as an associate.

Sidley Adds Private Funds Partner Ryan McNish In Chicago

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 9, 2026

Sidley announced that Ryan McNish has joined the firm as a partner in its Investment Funds practice in Chicago. McNish joins from Kirkland & Ellis, where he was a partner in the Investment Funds Practice Group.

Salvo: Interview With CEO Jacob Arbeid About AI Cybersecurity And Agentic Adversary Simulation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

Salvo is a nonprofit focused on understanding and reducing security risks created by increasingly capable AI systems. Its work includes agentic adversary simulation, where human-supervised AI agents test real business networks for vulnerabilities, along with research and data collection around AI-assisted hacking incidents. The organization is particularly focused on critical infrastructure, governments, and smaller organizations that may lack the resources of large enterprises. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Salvo CEO Jacob Arbeid to learn more about his background in AI security, the origins of Salvo, and why he believes autonomous AI could fundamentally change the scale of cyberattacks.

Bluespring Wealth Acquires Family Wealth Counseling And Creates $1 Billion Combined Practice

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

Bluespring Wealth has acquired Family Wealth Counseling and merged the business with existing Bluespring firm KDI Wealth Management, creating a combined wealth management practice overseeing slightly more than $1 billion in client assets.

M1 Launches Fiduciary AI Financial Advisor For Its $14 Billion Client Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

M1 announced M1 Advisor, a fiduciary AI financial advisor integrated into the company's investing, cash, and borrowing platform. M1 Advisor is offered through M1 Advisory Services, an SEC-registered investment adviser.

Jones Day Adds Real Estate Finance Partner Zena Ho In Los Angeles

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

Jones Day announced that Zena Ho has joined the firm as a partner in its Los Angeles office and Financial Markets Practice. Ho focuses on real estate and real estate finance transactions for lenders, REITs, private equity funds, and real estate companies.

WilmerHale Adds Hugh Murtagh As Bankruptcy And Financial Restructuring Practice Chair

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

WilmerHale announced that Hugh Murtagh has joined the firm as a partner and chair of its transactional Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Practice in New York. Murtagh advises companies, creditors, sponsors, financing sources, purchasers, and other stakeholders throughout the restructuring process.

Davis Polk Adds Media And Entertainment Partner Glen Mastroberte In Los Angeles

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

Davis Polk announced that Glen Mastroberte has joined the firm as a partner in its Mergers & Acquisitions practice in Los Angeles. Mastroberte advises clients across the media, entertainment, and sports industries.

Wittington Investments To Acquire Boots For $8.9 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

Wittington Investments entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Boots and associated businesses for total consideration of $8.9 billion, including assumed debt.

Wolfspeed Receives Conditional $1.5 Billion 30-Year Loan Commitment From U.S. Department Of War

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

Wolfspeed received a conditional commitment from the U.S. Department of War's Office of Strategic Capital for up to $1.5 billion in long-term financing.

Merit Financial Advisors Acquires $1.1 Billion Firm Moldenhauer & Associates

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

Merit Financial Advisors acquired Moldenhauer & Associates, an Orchard Park, New York-based wealth management firm overseeing approximately $1.1 billion in client assets. The firm serves nearly 1,900 households.

Crescent Energy To Acquire Devon Energy Eagle Ford Assets For Approximately $3.85 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

Crescent Energy entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Eagle Ford assets from Devon Energy for an estimated net purchase price of approximately $3.85 billion.

AblePay Health Raises $20 Million Series A Led By F-Prime

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

AblePay Health raised $20 million in Series A funding to expand its healthcare affordability and patient payment platform. F-Prime led the round, with participation from A1 Health Ventures and .406 Ventures.

Clear Channel Outdoor Receives CFIUS Clearance For Mubadala Capital Acquisition

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings has received clearance from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States for its pending acquisition by Mubadala Capital, satisfying the final regulatory requirement needed to complete the transaction.

VineBrook Homes Trust Completes $30 Million Tender Offer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

VineBrook Homes Trust has announced the final results of its tender offer to repurchase Class A common shares at $33 per share, completing a roughly $30 million liquidity transaction for investors. The tender offer began on September 4, 2026, and expired on October 5, 2026.

Gold.com’s Spectrum Wine Acquires Wine Cellar Club And Expands Storage Capacity To 125,000 Cases

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

Gold.com's majority-owned Spectrum Wine Auctions has acquired Wine Cellar Club, an Orange County, California-based wine storage business, expanding Spectrum's presence across the fine wine storage, auction and retail markets.

Drilling Tools To Acquire Saltire Energy And Foxley Energy For $80 Million Cash Plus 17.4 Million Shares

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

Drilling Tools International entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Saltire Energy Limited and Foxley Energy Limited. The consideration consists of approximately $80 million in cash and 17.4 million shares of DTI common stock, subject to customary adjustments.

Oncodesign Precision Medicine Advances OPM-201 Toward Phase 1b Parkinson’s Disease Trial

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

Oncodesign Precision Medicine announced several manufacturing, regulatory, and development milestones for OPM-201, its LRRK2 kinase inhibitor being developed for Parkinson's disease.

Spring Labs Acquires Winnow To Expand AI Compliance Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

Spring Labs acquired Winnow Solutions, a regulatory compliance technology platform, to strengthen its AI-powered risk and compliance offering for financial institutions.

Orca And Loopscale Merge To Form Formation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

Orca and Loopscale announced a merger that will combine their crypto trading, liquidity, credit, and vault infrastructure under a new company called Formation. Loopscale co-founder Luke Truitt will serve as CEO of Formation.

Capacity Acquires Majority Stake In UK-Based Core Fulfilment

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

Capacity acquired a majority stake in Core Fulfilment, creating a fulfillment platform serving consumer brands across both the U.S. and U.K.

Zone Frontier Sells Legacy Cleaning Products Business And Eliminates Approximately $3 Million In Annual Cash Burn

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

Zone Frontier sold its legacy aqueous ozone cleaning products business, including wholly owned subsidiary CleanCore Global Limited, to Sanzonate Holdings.

Stonefield Economics Adds VALUE Incorporated To Expand Texas Presence

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

Stonefield Economics announced that VALUE Incorporated has joined its national economic consulting and dispute advisory platform. Stonefield is backed by Trinity Hunt Partners.

J.S. Held Acquires Forensic Accountants & Consultants

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

J.S. Held acquired and integrated Forensic Accountants & Consultants, expanding its forensic accounting and litigation consulting capabilities in Florida.

Stark Power To Acquire 262 MW Cottage Grove Energy Campus In Minnesota

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

Stark Power entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Cottage Grove energy campus near Cottage Grove, Minnesota, from Ultra Capital and Panamint Capital.

Atom Computing Advances To Final Stage Of DARPA Quantum Benchmarking Initiative

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

Atom Computing was selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to advance to the final stage of DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative. Stage C of the program carries potential funding of up to $300 million.

Acuity Analytics Acquires Continuus To Expand U.S. Data And AI Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

Acuity Analytics acquired Continuus, a U.S.-based data consultancy specializing in financial services. The transaction adds 37 employees to Acuity and expands its capabilities across data strategy, governance, engineering, and cloud data platforms.

Pacolet Milliken Acquires Georgia Renewable Power And Triples Biomass Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

Pacolet Milliken acquired 100% of Georgia Renewable Power, expanding its renewable energy portfolio and roughly tripling the size of its biomass platform.

ZEISS Acquires Ceres Holographics To Accelerate Holography Commercialization

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

ZEISS acquired Ceres Holographics, a Scotland-based holographic technology company focused on hologram manufacturing and automotive display applications. Ceres Holographics will become part of ZEISS Microoptics.

Alto And Canopy Launch Native IRA Funding Integration For Private Market Investing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

Alto and Canopy launched a native integration designed to make it easier for investors to fund private market investments using individual retirement accounts.