Brinkema rejects the US demand to break up Google Ad Manager, opting for interoperability remedies that critics say leave a twice-confirmed monopoly intact.
Published: September 3, 2026 | Category: Deals & M&A The broker turns to fresh debt for its largest deal since NFP, handing KKR the exit on a hold it began in 2017 and accelerating the roll-up of America’s mid-sized insurance advisers. Aon has agreed to buy USI Insurance Services from KKR for $17bn, its largest…
Published: August 25, 2026 | Category: Deals & M&A Italy’s oldest bank turns predator, offering its own shares for two rivals to grow too large for Intesa Sanpaolo to swallow. Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena has launched two all-share offers worth a combined €34bn for domestic rivals Banco BPM and Banca Generali, a defensive…
Published: August 16, 2026 | Category: Deals & M&A Chancery found the data group’s own handling of FTC questions caused the delay it later used as grounds to terminate Verisk Analytics has been ordered by the Delaware Court of Chancery to resume work on the $2.35bn cash acquisition of AccuLynx that it abandoned in December,…
Published: August 11, 2026 | Category: M&A Talks between the two drugmakers could create the world’s fourth-largest pharmaceutical company, but face early-stage uncertainty and likely antitrust scrutiny on both sides of the Atlantic. AstraZeneca and Bristol Myers Squibb have held early-stage merger talks that could combine the two drugmakers into a company worth roughly $400…
Published: August 1, 2026 | Category: Private Capital / Deals Six transactions worth a combined $20 billion-plus land in five days, spanning energy infrastructure, consumer health, biotech and European logistics. Buyers are moving on scale this week, not scraps. Six transactions worth a combined $20 billion-plus closed in five days, spanning energy infrastructure, consumer health,…
Published: July 12, 2026 | Category: Banking / Mergers & Acquisitions / Europe Andrea Orcel is now close enough to touch what would be Europe’s largest bank merger in nearly two decades — and Berlin is still trying to stop him. UniCredit, the Italian lender Orcel has run since 2021, said this week that its…
Published: July 9, 2026 | Category: Aerospace Defense & Strategic M&A Focus: Vertical Integration, Orbital Spectrum Moats, and Space Infrastructure Competition The commercial space economy has officially graduated from its fragmented, speculative launch phase into a mature consolidation cycle. For years, the market was sharply divided between launch providers trading on lift-capacity metrics and s
Published: July 6, 2026 | Category: Industrial Consolidation & Takeover Architecture | Focus: Unsolicited Premium Bidding, Cross-Sector Cyclical Hedging, and Anti-Takeover Poison Pills The building products and industrial materials sector is facing a high-stakes corporate standoff following disclosures that Carlisle Companies (NYSE: CSL) has launched multiple unsolicited acquisition proposals to i
Rocket Lab is buying Iridium’s 66-satellite constellation for $8 billion — building the end-to-end space infrastructure company that only SpaceX has managed before.
Published: June 30, 2026 | Category: Global Heavy Industry & Corporate Finance | Focus: Capital Budget Deployment Lag, Balance Sheet Leverage, and Sovereign Deal Covenants More than a year after Nippon Steel finalized its highly contested acquisition of United States Steel Corp in June 2025, the ambitious promise of an American industrial revival remains largely…