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Salesforce To Buy Slack For $27.7B As Benioff Tries To Double Revenue
Reports surfaced last week that Salesforce was exploring the purchase of workplace communication application Slack. Now, the software...
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Dec 1, 20201 min read


Facebook To Acquire Customer Service Start-Up, Kustomer for $1B
Tech giant Facebook has confirmed it will acquire customer service start-up Kustomer, valuing the company at roughly $1 billion according...
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Nov 30, 20201 min read


Sycamore Partners Buys Ann Taylor, LOFT, and Lane Bryant Out Of Bankruptcy For $540M
Private equity giant Sycamore Partners has acquired the assets of Ascena Retail Group after the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy...
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Nov 27, 20201 min read


McCormick Adds More Heat To Its Portfolio With An $800M Hot Sauce Acquisition
McCormick & Company, which owns a portfolio of spices, seasoning mixes, condiments, and other flavoring products, has announced it will...
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Nov 25, 20201 min read


Penguin Random House To Acquire Simon & Schuster For More Than $2B
ViacomCBS has sold its 96-year-old publisher, Simon and Schuster, to Bertelsmann’s Penguin Random House for more than $2 billion. This...
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Nov 25, 20201 min read


Butterfly Network To Go Public Through a $1.5B SPAC Deal
Butterfly Network Inc. will be taken public via a SPAC merger valuing the company at $1.5 billion. Butterfly Network is a digital health...
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Nov 20, 20201 min read


Nasdaq To Acquire Financial Fraud Detection Firm, Verafin, For $2.75B
Exchange operator Nasdaq Inc., plans on buying Canadian firm Verafin for $2.75 billion. Verafin provides a cloud-based platform to help...
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Nov 19, 20201 min read


UK Based Insurance Firm RSA Has Agreed To A $9.6B Takeover By Two Oversees Firms
RSA insurance, a multinational general insurance company located in London, has agreed to the $9.6 billion takeover by Canada’s Intact...
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Nov 18, 20201 min read


News Corp Makes An Offer For Simon & Schuster As Bids Exceed $1.7B
News Corp, a media and publishing company, has bid on Simon & Schuster, a subsidiary of ViacomCBS which was put up for sale in the...
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Nov 17, 20201 min read


Home Depot To Buy Back HD Supply For $8B After Spinning It Off 13 Years Ago
In 2013 Home Depot sold HD Supply, a leading national distributor of maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) products, to private equity...
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Nov 16, 20201 min read


Naturgy Sells Its Chilean Unit To China State Grid for $3B
Naturgy Energy, formerly known as Gas Natural Fenosa, has agreed to sell its Chilean Unit, Compania General de Electricidad, to China...
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Nov 14, 20201 min read


Cano Health Pursues $4.4B SPAC Merger With Barry Sternlicht’s Jaws Acquisition Corp $4.4B
Cano Health, which operates primary health care centers for seniors in Florida, Texas, Nevada, and Puerto Rico, is going public through a...
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Nov 13, 20201 min read


Blackstone To Acquire Major Stake In GBA's Largest Logistics Parks
Blackstone has acquired a major stake in the Greater Bay Area’s largest logistics parks from R&F Properties for $1.1 billion. R&F...
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Nov 12, 20201 min read


Endeavour Mining In Merger Talks With Rival Teranga Gold
Endeavour Mining, a multinational mining company that owns and operates the gold mines in Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso, has entered...
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Nov 11, 20201 min read


Timberland, Vans, And The North Face Parent Buys Supreme For $2.1B
VF Corporation, the parent company of major apparel brands like Timberland, Vans, and The North Face, announced today that it would be...

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Nov 10, 20201 min read


American Tower To Buy InSite Wireless For $3.5B, Boosting Its North American Portfolio
American Tower, has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase InSite Wireless for $3.5 billion. American Tower is an investment...
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Nov 6, 20201 min read


Newlat Food Threatens To Pull Its Bid To Buy Hovis As A Bidding War Starts Up
Last month, Italian Food Group Newlat Food made a non-binding offer for Hovis, a 134-year-old British company that produces flour and...
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Nov 5, 20201 min read


Rumors Continue To Swirl About Potential Asset Sales By Debt-Laden AT&T
With net debt of $149 billion, few companies are as indebted as AT&T. The American conglomerate has a long history and was once so...
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Nov 4, 20201 min read


Italian Bank Nexi Is In Talks With Denmark's Nets For A Merger Worth $8B
The Italian bank Nexi, formerly known as Istituto Centrale delle Banche Popolari Italiane, is in exclusive talks with Denmark’s Nets for...
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Nov 3, 20201 min read


Norway's Scatec Solar To Buy SN Power For $1.17B As Clean Energy Adoption Grows
Scatec Solar, a renewable energy developer, has agreed to buy a fellow Norwegian company and Norfund portfolio company, SN Power, for...
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Oct 17, 20201 min read
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