Merger & Acquisition News

TORONTO & COLUMBUS, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CI Financial has agreed to acquire Budros, Ruhlin & Roe, a leading Columbus, Ohio-based wealth management firm with US$3.4 billion in assets....

SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GumGum Accelerates Global Expansion by Acquiring JustPremium...

SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GumGum Announces the Acquisition of JustPremium and Accelerates Global Expansion...

WEST PALM BEACH & KEY BISCAYNE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HotelPlanner, a hotel and event booking technology platform, Reservations.com, a premier online travel agency, and Astrea Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: ASAXU), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, announced today that they have entered into a definitive three-way merger agreement for a business combination. Through this transaction, HotelPlanner, with its family of brands including Meetings.com and Reservations.com, plans to...

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--UNest, the money app for your kids’ future, today announced its acquisition of Kidfund, a socially-powered savings app that helps parents save money for their kids, and teach good financial habits. Kidfund currently has 30,000 users, all of whom will have the option to convert to a UNest account. The acquisition of Kidfund will further accelerate UNest’s growth and deepen the company’s goal to simplify and streamline how parents save and invest for thei...

NEW YORK & LIMERICK, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Diligent acquires Accuvio, a leading ESG data aggregation and reporting software company...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO:6503) announced today, together with its U.S. subsidiary Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. (MEPPI), that it has entered into an agreement to acquire UK-based Smarter Grid Solutions (SGS). SGS is a leading global provider of distributed energy resources (DER) management software for power distribution utilities and DER operators. Electric grid operators throughout the world are experiencing an increasingly complex mix of new d...

GREENWICH, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Strategic Wireless Infrastructure Funds Management (“Strategic Wireless”) announced today that through its affiliate, SWI Funds Tower Holdings, LLC, it has completed the acquisition of a seven-tower portfolio and related assets. The towers are located throughout North and South Dakota as well as Minnesota, and are strategically situated close to densely populated and/or metropolitan areas. Jerry Sullivan, CEO of Strategic Wireless, stated, “We continue to exec...

LEAWOOD, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tallgrass Energy Acquires 75 Percent Membership Interest in Escalante H2 Power...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cadence Bancorporation (NYSE: CADE) today announced that, during a special meeting (“Special Meeting”) of its shareholders held today, CADE shareholders voted to approve the previously announced merger agreement (the “Merger Agreement”) entered into between the Company and BancorpSouth Bank (NYSE: BXS), under which the companies will combine in an all-stock merger with a total market value of more than $6 billion. The board of directors of both companies have previousl...