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Autodesk to acquire MaintainX for $3.6B, expanding into operations software
Autodesk announced an all‑cash $3.6 billion purchase of MaintainX, a mobile‑first maintenance and operations platform. The transaction is funded with cash on hand, new debt and includes a $150 million restricted‑stock grant to retain staff. CEO Andrew Anagnost said the deal unlocks a $40 billion addressable market and extends Autodesk’s portfolio beyond design into building operations.
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By the numbers: Credit Agricole raises $670M via Samurai bond issuance
BALLAS Raises $15.5M Series B to Expand Japan's Construction‑material Platform
BALLAS announced a ¥2.4 billion ($15.5 million) Series B round led by SMSM Edge and Z Venture Capital. The funding will accelerate its BALLAS SCM marketplace, AI‑driven LINKS product, and partnerships with major construction and finance firms.
Potomac Tech Wire - April 22
Lockheed Martin announced its venture fund will grow from $400 million to $1 billion, marking the largest increase since the program’s 2007 launch. At the same time, Herndon‑based HawkEye 360 filed for a NYSE IPO under the ticker HAWK after a $150 million...
CoreX Holding Acquires Carajás Copper Assets From BHP for $465M
CoreX Holding completed a $465 million purchase of BHP’s Carajás copper assets in Brazil, paying $240 million at closing with $225 million in contingent payments. The deal adds an operating underground mine, a processing plant and 1,800 km² of exploration ground to CoreX’s Copper...
Vertical SaaS Is Buying Into the Market It Used to Sell Into
Vertical SaaS platforms are increasingly using their subscription cash flow to acquire adjacent companies within the same industry, a trend now evident across healthcare, manufacturing, warehouse management and EdTech. Recent transaction data shows the shift accelerating, with firms crossing a...
8 Quiet Breakdowns That Emerge in the First 90 Days After an Acquisition (and How to Protect Against Them)
The article outlines eight subtle breakdowns that commonly surface in the first 90 days after an acquisition, ranging from slowed decision‑making to talent anxiety and customer friction. It argues that these quiet failures, not the financial models, erode value before...
Kailera Leads, SANA Ranks #2 Among Biggest Biotech IPOs
The excellent @biospace 📊👇shows the 5 biggest IPOs in BioTech history. At the top of this list is of course Kailera Therapeutics $KLRA with its $625M blockbuster IPO - the largest public offering in recent years. The one that caught...
Online Financial Marketplace Munivestor Sets Summer Launch
Munivestor is set to launch a digital municipal bond marketplace this summer, allowing cities to issue bonds of $50 million or less directly to a broad pool of investors, including retail participants. The platform digitizes the issuance workflow with a 30‑day...
The IPO Buzz: National Healthcare Properties Priced IPO at $12 – $1 Below Range & Stock Dips
National Healthcare Properties (NHP) priced its IPO at $12 per share, $1 below the $13‑$16 guidance, raising $462 million by selling the full 38.5 million shares outlined in its prospectus. The senior‑housing REIT opened at $11.56 on Nasdaq and closed the first...
Use Public Listings for Growth, Not Just Exit
In this episode, Callum Laing breaks down a strategy most entrepreneurs completely overlook, how to use a public listing as a growth tool, not just an exit. Instead of chasing traditional IPOs, Calum reveals how his “constrained stock” model creates stability,...
New $10M Funding Fuels Drilling,
A C$10M raise from @AstraExp, a bought deal from high-quality resource funds. This will ramp up drilling, in a system already demonstrating size and growth potential, what could set up this #gold stock for a major re-rate. We're actively buying:...
High Leverage Brings Negative Outlook to San Diego Sewer Bonds
San Diego’s Public Facilities Financing Authority received mixed ratings as it prepares to issue new sewer revenue bonds for its Pure Water project. Fitch downgraded the outlook on the sewer bonds to negative, citing leverage climbing to 8.2 times and projected...
Predictive AI Nailed $380M Blue Energy Funding
Crunchbase called it! 👏 Eight months ago, we predicted Blue Energy was likely to raise, with 95% confidence. Now it’s official with $380M in funding. That’s the power of our predictive intelligence, giving you the earliest private market knowledge.🔮 https://t.co/xE2a8NZbSK https://t.co/xxlYaZrRZo
Judge Enforces Absolute Priority Amid $500M Trump Priming
so you have Trump’s priming $500mn, the ad hoc bondholder group, and a federal judge sworn to uphold the absolute priority rule 🍿: https://t.co/nLx7Z4Tz0f https://t.co/ddFVAt6bSH
The Gulf Buys Big Into Paramount. What It Wants in Return
Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE’s sovereign wealth funds are committing roughly $24 billion to Paramount Skydance’s $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, pushing the combined foreign stake in the merged entity to about 21.6 percent—near the FCC’s 25 percent cap. The deal would place two...
Capital One Closed Hopper Tech and Employee Deal in April, Focuses on Travel Expansion
Capital One completed an April deal that brings Hopper's travel‑booking technology and roughly 150 employees in‑house, strengthening its Capital One Travel platform. The acquisition does not include all of Hopper’s assets, leaving the core B2B product with the original company....
Yesway IPO: Stock Price Will Be Closely Watched Today as the Convenience Store Chain Makes Its Nasdaq Debut
Yesway Inc., the owner of the Yesway and Allsup’s convenience store chains, debuted on Nasdaq on Wednesday under the ticker YSWY. The Texas‑based retailer operates 448 stores across nine western states, with a footprint entirely west of the Mississippi. Its...
Deutsche Telekom, T‑Mobile Discuss Merger to Form World's Largest Telecom‑Media Holding
Deutsche Telekom and its U.S. arm T‑Mobile US are in preliminary talks to create a new holding company that would combine their assets. Valued at roughly $384 billion together, the merger would become the largest public telecom‑media deal ever and could...
Cerebras Systems Files Nasdaq IPO, Marking Major VC‑Backed AI Chip Exit
Cerebras Systems, the wafer‑scale AI chipmaker backed by top venture firms, filed a Form S‑1 on April 17 to list on Nasdaq under the ticker CBRS. The filing comes after a $20 billion OpenAI partnership, $510 million in 2025 revenue and a...
PSE to Ease Initial Listings of Pref Shares
The Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) has proposed cutting the minimum offer size for initial listings via preferred shares from PHP 1 billion (≈$18 million) to PHP 100 million (≈$1.8 million). It also reduces the required number of shareholders from 1,000 to 100 and adjusts...
Adobe’s Massive $25 Billion Stock Buyback
Adobe announced a $25 billion stock buyback, representing roughly 25% of its $101 billion market capitalization. The program, authorized through 2030, follows a prior $25 billion buyback in 2024 and adds to the 13% of shares the company has retired over the past...
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Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings (CCO) shareholders will vote on May 12, 2026 to approve a merger with Madison Merger Sub. If the deal closes, each CCO share converts into a $2.43 cash payment, equivalent to $243 per standard option contract....
HSBC Narrows Down Shortlist for Sale of Singaporean Life Unit
HSBC has narrowed the bidders for its Singapore life insurance arm to Allianz, Daiichi Life and Sumitomo Life, with a potential valuation of up to $2 billion. The shortlisted firms are working with advisers to submit binding offers. The move follows...
Tencent and Alibaba in Talks to Invest in DeepSeek - Report
Chinese tech giants Tencent and Alibaba are reportedly in talks to invest in AI startup DeepSeek at a valuation exceeding $20 billion. DeepSeek had earlier sought at least $300 million at a $10 billion valuation, and its models already run on Nvidia hardware...
Men’s Wearhouse Owner Aims to Rejoin the Stock Market
Tailored Brands, the parent of Men’s Wearhouse and other apparel chains, announced it has confidentially filed a draft Form S‑1 with the SEC to re‑enter the public markets. The filing comes five years after the company emerged from a 2020...
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DealRoom Launches M&A Benchmark Tool to Help Deal Teams Compare Their Operations Against 150+ Industry Peers
DealRoom introduced an M&A Benchmark Tool that lets buy‑side teams compare their operations against data from more than 150 peer dealmakers. The interactive survey takes under two minutes and asks six questions covering team size, deal volume, typical deal size,...
Sigma Advanced Systems Completes $15 Million Extrovis Divestment
Sigma Advanced Systems Limited has sold its 36.52% stake in Swiss pharma firm Extrovis AG for $15 million (≈ ₹137.6 crore). The cash infusion is earmarked to sharpen Sigma’s focus on aerospace and defence, a sector it is turning into a pure‑play platform....
Construction M&A Activity Continues in 2026
Construction M&A surged at the end of 2025 and has accelerated into 2026, as both traditional builders and construction‑technology firms pursue acquisitions to broaden digital capabilities. Procore bought AI firm Datagrid, Autodesk added data‑visibility startup Rhumbix, and Trimble snapped up...
Term Sheet: BNP Paribas Plans an SRT, a UK Retail CMBS Gets Underway, MERA Eyes Preferred Equity Deals
BNP Paribas is weighing a synthetic risk transfer (SRT) to shed credit exposure, marking the latest European bank to consider such structures. In the UK, a new securitisation of the Westfield Stratford City shopping centre will launch a fresh retail CMBS,...
Repay Attracts $1B Takeover Offer
Repay Holdings received an unsolicited $1 billion takeover proposal from Forager Capital Management, offering $4.80 in cash per share—a 75% premium to the 30‑day volume‑weighted average price. Forager, which already owns a 13% stake, disclosed the offer in an SEC filing...
Chatham Financial to Acquire Hodes Weill
Chatham Financial announced a deal to acquire Hodes Weill & Associates, slated to close in Q2 2026 pending regulatory approval. The transaction merges Chatham’s capital‑markets advisory and technology platform with Hodes Weill’s expertise in real‑estate, infrastructure and energy‑transition capital raising. While...
Kin Global’s Public Offer of 1 Million Shares 29.5 Times Subscribed at S$0.23 a Share
Kin Global’s IPO of 1 million public‑offer shares at S$0.23 each was 29.5‑times oversubscribed, raising roughly US$5 million. A separate placement of 23.9 million shares attracted 2.9‑times demand, adding about US$12 million, while cornerstone investors bought 19.2 million shares for US$4.4 million. Net proceeds of approximately...
Maze Therapeutics Secures $150 Million in Stock and Pre‑Funded Warrants Offering
Maze Therapeutics announced the pricing of a $150 million underwritten offering of common stock and pre‑funded warrants. The capital will extend the company’s runway to 2029 and fund the development of its lead candidates for APOL1‑mediated kidney disease and phenylketonuria.
USA Rare Earth Seals $2.8 B Deal for Brazil’s Serra Verde Rare‑Earth Mine
USA Rare Earth Inc. announced a cash‑and‑stock transaction valued at about $2.8 billion to acquire Brazil’s Serra Verde Group, owner of the Pela Ema rare‑earth mine and processing plant. The deal adds 6,400 metric tons of annual rare‑earth oxide capacity and is expected...
Element 29 Welcomes Alpayana, Randy Smallwood as Investors
Element 29 Resources Inc. raised $35.5 million through a non‑brokered private placement of 32.2 million shares at $1.10 each, welcoming Alpayana S.A.C. as a new strategic investor with a 9.9% stake and former Wheaton Precious Metals CEO Randy Smallwood as an additional backer....
Airbus Strengthens Sovereign Cyber Security with Acquisition of Quarkslab in France
Airbus announced an agreement to acquire French cyber‑security firm Quarkslab, a company of about 100 engineers based in Paris and Rennes. The purchase, pending regulatory clearance, is part of Airbus Defence and Space’s push to build a sovereign cyber portfolio...
Equitree Capital Launches GIFT City AIF for Global Access to India’s Small-Cap Story
Equitree Capital Advisors has launched the Equitree Emerging Opportunities Fund, a Category III AIF registered under IFSCA regulations in GIFT City. The USD‑denominated vehicle will give non‑resident Indians, foreign nationals, family offices and institutions offshore exposure to India’s small‑cap equities. Equitree...
Oiltek to ‘Actively Review’ Capital Structure After Stock-Split Query
Oiltek announced it will "actively review" its capital structure after a shareholder raised the prospect of a stock split, noting the current high share price could dampen market participation. The agritech firm’s shares have surged more than 250% year‑to‑date, reaching...
TMX Group Announces Agreement to Acquire Cboe Australia and Cboe Canada
TMX Group announced an agreement to acquire Cboe Australia and Cboe Canada from Cboe Global Markets for a total consideration of $300 million USD. The two businesses generated roughly $64 million USD in revenue and $18 million USD in adjusted EBITDA in 2025....
MSD-Backed Ray Locks in $125m to Back Eye Drug Pipeline
Ray Therapeutics announced a $125 million Series B round, led by Janus Henderson Investors with participation from Merck’s venture arm, MRL Ventures and Novo Holdings. The capital will fund late‑stage clinical work and commercial preparation for RTX‑015, its lead gene‑therapy candidate for...
Eplus3D IPO Collapse: Growth Trajectory Meets Structural Headwinds
Eplus3D, a Hangzhou‑based metal 3D printer, withdrew its Shanghai STAR Market IPO, cancelling a planned $176.6 million raise. The funds were intended for capacity expansion, equipment industrialization, a new R&D center, and a global service network, all now on hold. Despite...
Kyrgyz Republic & Tajikistan Parametric Cat Bonds From the ADB Could Upsize Slightly
The Asian Development Bank is upsizing its first parametric catastrophe bonds for the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan to between $75 million and $80 million each. The earthquake sub‑limit will rise to $65‑70 million while the extreme‑precipitation cover remains at $10 million. Investor risk margin...
Easing Capital Rules Will Require Banks to Rediscover Self-Discipline
U.S. regulators have softened the Basel III endgame, cutting capital buffers for both global systemically important banks and smaller institutions. The change coincides with a surge in AI‑driven cyber attacks, with 90% of financial firms reporting more incidents and global fraud...
BDC Buybacks Validate NAV Amid Deep Discount
WSJ: "When a BDC trades at a deep discount to its official NAV, the most direct way to signal that the official marks are reliable is for the fund to repurchase its own stock on the open market." It really is...
Join Webinar: Deep Tech Post Series A
Beyond Earth Ventures is hosting a closed‑format webinar on April 23 titled “Beyond the VC Playbook: Corporate Strategy for Deep Tech Post Series A.” The session, led by founding partner Alexandra Vidyuk and advisor Nick Dimitriou, will explore how deep‑tech founders and...
Yesway Prices IPO at $20 per Share, Valuing Chain at $1.21 Billion
Yesway, Inc. priced its initial public offering at $20 a share, selling 14 million Class A shares and achieving a market valuation of roughly $1.21 billion. The pricing sits at the low end of the $20‑$23 range, reflecting cautious investor sentiment amid a...
Netflix in Talks to Acquire Radford Studio Center for $330‑$400 M
Netflix is negotiating with Goldman Sachs to buy the Radford Studio Center in Studio City for $330‑$400 million, far below the $1.85 billion price paid in 2021. The deal would give the streamer a flagship L.A. soundstage complex as it expands its...
ArcelorMittal Gains Full Control of Italian Steel JV After Debt‑Equity Swap
ArcelorMittal will assume 100% ownership of the CLN Distribuzione Italia joint venture by converting the partner's debt into equity. The move ends a decade‑long partnership with CLN‑Coils Lamiere Nastri SpA and positions the steelmaker to streamline its automotive supply chain....
Saba Capital Launches $210 Million Bid to Seize Edinburgh Worldwide, a Major SpaceX Shareholder
Activist hedge fund Saba Capital has put forward a £165 million (about $210 million) offer to take control of Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust, which holds a £165 million stake in SpaceX. The bid pits Saba’s board‑room coup against a coalition of small investors...
OpenAI Is Burning Billions — and an IPO Won’t Stave Off Bankruptcy
OpenAI is preparing an IPO that could raise $50‑$100 billion, but its business model remains deeply loss‑making. In 2025 the company generated $4.3 billion in revenue while posting losses between $7 billion and $13 billion, driven by high GPU costs, massive R&D spend and...
Standard Life’s Aegon UK Acquisition Is ‘Good News for Bigger GPs’
Standard Life has agreed to acquire Aegon UK, creating a life‑and‑pensions powerhouse with roughly £480 billion of assets under management (about $610 billion). The transaction underscores a broader wave of consolidation among both limited partners and asset managers. By merging two of...