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JANUARY 8, 2025

BlackRock made headlines in late 2024 through the firms acquisition of HPS Investment Partners , backed by their expectation that the private debt market will more than double to $4.5 2] While BlackRocks acquisition dominated the news cycle, other firms have already made it their prerogative to jump into the private credit pool.

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JULY 12, 2024

In July 2019, the company let go of Bruce Linton, who at the time was an icon in the Canadian cannabis industry and co-CEO with Mark Zekulin. The company now plans to finally close on that acquisition, but that's only through the use of a special purpose vehicle , Canopy USA. million it reported for fiscal 2019.

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OCTOBER 20, 2024

In addition to being the top banana in the chocolate world, Hershey's recent acquisitions of Skinny Pop Popcorn and Dot's Homestyle Pretzels are paying immediate dividends, with the new units growing sales by 13% and 65% annually since 2019. MTYFF Free Cash Flow data by YCharts Making 27 acquisitions worth more than $1.7

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MAY 17, 2024

As for the 4%-6% expected end market growth, the figure looks familiar enough because it's what 3M's management told investors to expect from its healthcare end market on 3M's investor day in 2016 and 2019. Third, it's worth noting that 3M Healthcare/Solventum was the focus of 3M's merger and acquisition activity over the past five years.

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JUNE 12, 2024

But due to the federal ban on pot, many companies shy away from trying to collaborate or engage in mergers and acquisitions with marijuana producers. back in 2019, where they agreed in principle to combine their businesses once it was federally permissible to do so.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Archer Aviation (NYSE: ACHR) , a developer of electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) three years ago. Airbus and Boeing successfully launched their first prototype eVTOL aircraft in 2018 and 2019, respectively.

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JULY 21, 2023

During Berkshire Hathaway's 2022 annual shareholder meeting, Buffett told his audience of more than 30,000 shareholders and investors that his company's stake in Activision Blizzard is a merger/arbitrage play. billion in net long-term debt, much of which came from its 2019 acquisition of Anadarko. With a U.S.

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

TransMedics held its initial public offering (IPO) in 2019 and saw its stock rise over 300% by 2023. However, in the last three months, its stock price has plummeted over 55% as the market wrestled with TransMedics' recent mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity. This has left investors at a crossroads.

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AUGUST 27, 2023

It was only in 2019 that it changed its name to C3.ai It went public shortly thereafter through a reverse merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) at a market cap of over $10 billion. That is $183 million in customer acquisition spending in order to add $14 million in new sales.

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MARCH 14, 2024

However, the company would be considered rather boring in today's technology climate if not for its merger with chip giant Avago Technologies in 2016. That merger marked the beginning of an acquisition frenzy. billion, and cybersecurity powerhouse Symantec in 2019 for $10.7

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Grocery Outlet's stock was already trading off a bit from mid-2022 highs, but then it made a sizable acquisition in April 2024 that boosted investor worries. Shares are down 37% since January and trade at an all-time low for Grocery Outlet, which went public in 2019. Getting bigger has not led to a stronger bottom line.

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JULY 3, 2024

That's why in 2015, Buffett -- then a major stakeholder in Heinz -- helped orchestrate the pairing by steering the company into an acquisition of its peer. That's why in the wake of more than a 70% rout of the stock over the course of 2017 and 2018, Buffett finally conceded in 2019 that Berkshire "overpaid for Kraft."

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JULY 29, 2023

Supercomputers like Selene also rely on extremely high-performance network connections provided by another Nvidia product -- the InfiniBand networking solutions that came with the Mellanox acquisition in 2019. This team includes many engineers from the Xilinx side of that big merger.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Category 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Six Months Ended June 30, 2024 Net Investment Income Per Share $1.19 $1.41 $1.39 $1.29 $1.48 $2.09 $1.01 Moreover, because Hercules often attaches warrants to its investments, I see the potential for rising acquisitions as particularly lucrative. Data source: Hercules Investor Relations.

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AUGUST 19, 2023

In 2019, the U.S. Naval mergers & acquisitions This was surprising for a couple reasons: First, the Navy finally moved to close the "icebreaker gap" with Russia, which operates a fleet of 40 icebreakers. But don't lose heart; things might finally be getting better. Navy (which buys ships for the Coast Guard) awarded $1.9

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AUGUST 28, 2023

These warrants, which trace back to a deal Berkshire made with Occidental in 2019, can be exercised at $59.624 per share to purchase up to 83,858,848 shares of Occidental common stock. Last week, Microsoft amended its previously announced acquisition terms to hopefully appease the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority.

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DECEMBER 16, 2023

While the two companies still work together, it is not unreasonable to imagine this partnership ending at some point -- just like FedEx did with Amazon in 2019. These acquisitions not only strengthen UPS's healthcare ambitions, but support its international growth story, providing footholds in Latin America, Europe, and Asia.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Generating 63% of its sales from premium and super premium spirits, a figure that has grown from 56% in 2019, the company will undoubtedly welcome this premiumization trend.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2024

That's why chip design companies like Broadcom just completed its mega-merger with the big cloud software management business VMware , and why networking hardware giant Cisco Systems has submitted a bid to purchase Splunk to bet on cloud and network monitoring services.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Excluding mergers of existing Dow components and simple name changes, there have been 52 separate instances where companies were added or subtracted , the latest of which involved the removal of pharmacy chain Walgreens Boots Alliance in favor of e-commerce colossus Amazon near the end of February. buying Valspar for $11.3

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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Following the 2017 merger between Dow Chemical and DuPont , the newly formed company (DowDuPont) had stated its intent to, eventually, split into three separate business. This split occurred in 2019, resulting in DuPont, Corteva , and Dow Inc. The writing had been on the wall for some time that Dow Inc. would be shown the door.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

Tilray's acquisitions of U.S.-based Canopy was the first to enter the market with derivatives -- vapes, edibles, concentrates, topicals, and other products -- after Canada legalized recreational cannabis in 2019. Tilray had a strong presence in Portugal and Germany before its merger with Aphria. million in its fiscal Q4.

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APRIL 26, 2024

Get the week’s top news delivered directly to your inbox – Sign up for our newsletter Sign up The sale is expected to bring nearly a 100% return to Blackstone as the holding company’s value has almost doubled since the New York-based private equity firm’s acquisition in 2019. Source: KED Can’t stop reading?

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Since 2019, revenues at the BDS unit have barely budged (actually, they sank 4.5% If Boeing had, for example, fired Colbert and then immediately replaced him with an exec with a mergers and acquisitions background -- someone who might be relied upon to shepherd a division like BDS through a spinoff or sale -- that would make sense.

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MARCH 14, 2025

It is a merger Monday in the truest sense. What I would say, though, is it is becoming very clear by virtue of this Moveworks acquisition that if Bill McDermott were here and listening to what you just said, he'd say, like, can I tell you about the deal that we just did? Tim, thanks for joining me. Dylan Lewis: I'm glad.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

MiddleGround originally purchased Banner in December of 2019 from High Street Capital, of Chicago. Since MiddleGround’s investment in Banner in 2019, MiddleGround brought industry veteran Dan Stoettner back to lead the business. Under Stoettner’s leadership, the company completed two acquisitions.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

While Berkshire has owned the Liberty Media tracking stock since 2016, which tracked Liberty's large stake in Sirius, Berkshire has increased its bet on the satellite radio operator this year, ahead of the tracking stock's merger with publicly traded Sirius shares in a simplification merger in September. billion repurchase program.

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MARCH 6, 2024

Whereas terrestrial and online radio companies generate the lion's share of their sales from advertising, Sirius XM tallied just 20% of its revenue last year from ads (via Pandora, which it acquired in February 2019). Comparatively, Sirius XM brought in roughly 77% of its sales in 2023 from subscriptions. Warner Bros.

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MARCH 4, 2024

The item that has captivated everyone's attention, though, is the pending merger between Synopsys and design simulation software provider Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS). And Keysight Technologies also quietly made a small acquisition to increase its own capabilities in the same department. What's the big deal with simulation software anyway?

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AUGUST 31, 2023

Data shows that the number of private equity (PE) firms holding stakes in Indian IT services companies has doubled between 2019 and 2022, indicating a growing interest in the sector. This trend is being fueled by a succession of acquisitions spearheaded by private equity firms such as ChrysCapital and Carlyle.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Deliberations are at an early stage, and a decision on whether to proceed with the merger should be made by the end of the year, said one of the people. The merger would come amid renewed deal activity in the media sector. The combined group would be valued between $2.8bn and $3.3bn, two of the people said. Source: U.S.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

Reports of the acquisition costs sent shares in Infroneer sliding 6% on Tuesday. Mergers and acquisitions involving Japanese companies in the renewable energy sector have climbed more than eight times to $1.8bn for the year to date from the same period a year earlier, marking the highest level since 2019, LSEG data showed.

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JULY 20, 2024

In 2019, Buffett finally conceded he "overpaid for Kraft." Although it's taken far longer than anyone expected at the time, the merger of Kraft and Heinz is finally starting to help more than hurt. It's also a position the fund's been sitting on since 2019, collecting decent dividends the whole time. billion, by the way.

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

Kraft Heinz (dividend yield: 4.6%) Kraft Heinz (NASDAQ: KHC) has struggled since it was formed by a merger nearly a decade ago with the help of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway. The packaged food giant has seen little growth since the merger and was forced to take a write-down of $15.4 It currently offers a dividend yield of 4.6%.

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AUGUST 25, 2024

Kraft Heinz (NASDAQ: KHC) has been a disappointing investment ever since it was created from the merger between Kraft and Heinz nine years ago. Its top-line growth has stabilized Kraft Heinz's net sales growth -- which includes its divestments, acquisitions, and currency fluctuations -- was lumpy over the past five years.

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JULY 18, 2023

Get the week’s top news delivered directly to your inbox – Sign up for our newsletter Sign up The Quasar deal is adding to the momentum of health-care dealmaking despite a global slump in mergers and acquisitions. Under its ownership, the company has expanded both organically and via acquisitions.

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

The company's next big move will be to complete its proposed acquisition of Capri Holdings (NYSE: CPRI). But when you look at the financial results from the third quarter for each of these luxury fashion companies, well, there are worrying similarities to the merger of Sears and Kmart. The difficulty lies in making it happen.

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