Merger & Acquisition News

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CareTrust REIT, Inc. (NYSE:CTRE) announced today that it recently closed two separate transactions on the West Coast with an aggregate initial investment amount of approximately $45.2 million. The investments include the acquisition of a skilled nursing facility as well as the funding of a mortgage loan secured by a California skilled nursing, assisted living, and independent living campus. On June 30, 2023, CareTrust acquired a 99-bed skilled nursing faci...

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Brookfield Reinsurance (NYSE, TSX: BNRE) and American Equity Investment Life Holding Company (NYSE: AEL) (“AEL”) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement whereby Brookfield Reinsurance will acquire all of the outstanding shares of common stock of AEL it does not already own in a cash and stock transaction that values AEL at approximately $4.3 billion. As part of the agreement, each AEL shareholder will receive $55.00 per AEL shar...

BRUSSELS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Syntagma Capital today announces that it has completed its acquisition of Erasteel (https://www.erasteel.com). The company, which will continue to operate under the Erasteel brand, is a global leader in the conventional and powder metallurgy of high-speed steels used for high performance machining, drilling and cutting tools. In addition, Erasteel has unique metal recycling capabilities in Europe, offering sustainable solutions for the recovery of batteries, catalysts...

LONDON & DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--This acquisition creates an unparalleled platform that manages the entire regulatory risk value chain on a global scale, elevating Corlytics’ offer....

CHICAGO & NUREMBERG, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NielsenIQ (NIQ) and GfK SE (GfK) have today received clearance by the European Commission for their planned combination. The European Commission has approved the proposed combination of NIQ and GfK, thereby allowing for completion of the transaction to create the world's leading consumer intelligence company. The clearance decision is conditional on the divestment of GfK’s Consumer Panel business to an independent third party. The condition does no...

MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Valnet Inc. has successfully completed the acquisition of How-To Geek, a leading online technology publication platform based out of the US....

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: Following the authorization given by the European Commission regarding the combination with the Lagardère group, whose completion is in particular subject to the full sale of the Gala magazine, Vivendi (Paris:VIV) announced that it received several offers for its business assets, currently owned by Prisma Media. After examining these offers, it has been decided to enter into exclusive negotiations with Groupe Figaro which, if conclusive, need to be appro...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sun European Partners, LLP (“Sun European Partners” or “Sun European”), a leading private investment advisory firm focused on defensible businesses in growing markets with tangible performance improvement opportunities, today announces that its affiliated portfolio company DD Group has acquired 100% of the shares in Dental Promotion & Innovation SA (“DPI”) a leading dental distribution platform in continental Europe. DPI is the largest dental distributor in Belgium,...

DERBY, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Node4, a cloud-led digital transformation Managed Services Provider (MSP), has today announced the acquisition of ThreeTwoFour, an award-winning information security and technology risk specialist. The acquisition is Node4’s third significant growth purchase in the last 18 months, having also bought risual, an IT managed services and solutions provider and Tisski, a leading UK-based independent Microsoft Business applications partner. ThreeTwoFour is renowned fo...

FRANKFURT, Germany & KEMPTEN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Billwerk+, a leading pan-European provider of subscription management and recurring billing software solutions, today announces that plenigo, a German subscription management and recurring billing software solution provider for publishing and media companies, is joining the group. Founded in 2013, plenigo has developed into one of the leading SaaS providers for reader-funded business models of modern publishers in the DACH region. The soft...