Merger & Acquisition News

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--J.P. Morgan (NYSE: JPM) announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Aumni, a leading provider of investment analytics software to the venture capital industry. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed and closing is expected in the first half of 2023. Founded in 2018, Aumni’s proprietary data analytics engine structures, tracks and analyzes essential legal and economic terms underpinning growth-stage private market transacti...

ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Securian Financial is continuing to strengthen its position in the employee benefits market. The company announced today that its Houston, Texas-based benefits administration subsidiary, Empyrean Benefit Solutions, has acquired Enspire, an employee communication and engagement platform headquartered in Austin, Texas. Through the acquisition, Empyrean adds an expanded people-centric dimension to its innovative benefits administration technology and compassionate...

ROCKVILLE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Standard Solar, a leader in the ownership, operation, funding and development of commercial and community solar assets, today announced it has acquired a planned 21 megawatts (MW) of solar projects in New York and Massachusetts, from New Leaf Energy. “Community solar projects like these will generate clean, reliable energy needed by residents and businesses and are integral in helping New York and Massachusetts reach their renewable energy and climate goals,” sa...

KIRKLAND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Steller today announced the acquisition of Travel Mindset and the addition of Rik van der Kooi to the company’s Board of Directors....

DETROIT--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Leading lower middle-market private equity firm Huron Capital (“Huron”) announced today that its portfolio company Exigent Holdco LLC (“Exigent” or the “Company”), a provider of mission-critical HVAC, plumbing, and other mechanical system repair, maintenance, and replacement services, has acquired JPG Plumbing & Mechanical Services Inc. (“JPG”) and ThermaServe Inc. (“ThermaServe”). “Our newest partnerships with JPG and ThermaServe allow Exigent to better serve its...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Halliburton Company (NYSE: HAL) today announced that Hess Corporation (NYSE: HES) has selected Halliburton Landmark’s DecisionSpace® 365 Well Construction applications powered by iEnergy® Hybrid Cloud to plan, design, and construct safe, cost effective, and productive wells. DecisionSpace 365 applications empower an agile enterprise and bring planning, design, and operations together to create a digital twin of the well construction process. The applications provide op...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WPP (NYSE: WPP) today announces the acquisition of Goat, one of the world’s leading influencer marketing agencies. Goat specialises in data-led end-to-end influencer marketing campaigns grounded in performance and measurement and was founded by Arron Shepherd, Nick Cooke, and Harry Hugo in 2015. Goat drives authentic brand engagement while integrating targeted paid media to reach the right audience and achieve industry-leading results. The company’s 150+ staff across th...

BLACKSBURG, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NImmune Biopharma ("NImmune”), a late-stage precision immunology biopharmaceutical company that develops best-in-class biomarker-driven immunoregulatory therapeutics, today announced its launch following the acquisition of omilancor, NIM-1324, and the entire LANCL portfolio of immunoregulatory therapeutic assets from Landos Biopharma, Inc. Omilancor is a Phase-3-ready, once-daily, oral, gut-restricted therapeutic for Ulcerative Colitis (UC) with potentially fas...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DiamondHead Holdings Corp., a Delaware corporation (Nasdaq: DHHC, DHHCU, DHHCW) (“DHHC”, the “Company” and, following the completion of the Business Combination (as defined below), the “Issuer”), today announced that it has entered into a Convertible Note Purchase Agreement dated March 21, 2023, (the “Note Purchase Agreement”) among itself, Great Southern Homes, Inc., a South Carolina corporation (“GSH”) and a group of investors party to that agreement (the “Investors...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) announced today it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire CF Global Trading, a global firm specializing in outsourced trading on an agency basis for a variety of asset classes including equities, listed derivatives and fixed income. The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of 2023, subject to customary closing conditions. Financial terms are not being disclosed. For more than 20 years CF Global Trading and t...