Merger & Acquisition News

TOKYO & HAMBURG, Germany & CENTER VALLEY, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Olympus Corporation (”Olympus” – Director, Representative Executive Officer, President and CEO: Yasuo Takeuchi) announced today that it has finalized the acquisition of Israeli medical device company Medi-Tate Ltd. (“Medi-Tate” – CEO: Ido Kilemnik) following the announcement of its decision to exercise the call option in February, 2021. Through this acquisition, Olympus expands its business line in offering in-office treatment for...

NEW YORK & SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Forest Road Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: FRX) (“Forest Road”), today announced that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has declared effective its Registration Statement on Form S-4 (as amended, the “Registration Statement”), which includes a definitive proxy statement/prospectus in connection with Forest Road’s special meeting of stockholders (the “Special Meeting”). At the Special Meeting stockholders of Forest Road will consider t...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Artius Acquisition Inc. (“Artius”) (Nasdaq: AACQU, AACQ, AACQW) announced today that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) has declared effective its Registration Statement on Form S-4 (as amended, the “Registration Statement”), filed in connection with the previously announced proposed business combination with Origin Materials, Inc. (“Origin Materials”). An extraordinary general meeting of Artius shareholders to approve, among other things, the pro...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Climate Change Crisis Real Impact I Acquisition Corporation (NYSE: CLII) (“CRIS”), a publicly-traded special purpose acquisition company, announced today that CRIS’s definitive proxy statement (“Proxy Statement”) relating to the previously announced business combination with EVgo HoldCo, LLC (“EVgo”), the nation’s largest public fast charging network for electric vehicles (EVs) and first powered by 100% renewable electricity, has been filed with the U.S. Securities an...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--project44 Acquires ClearMetal...

NEW YORK & CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MidOcean Partners (“MidOcean”), a premier middle-market private equity firm focused on the business services and consumer sectors, today announced it has successfully sold its majority investment in The Planet Group (“Planet”), one of the world’s leading diversified professional services organizations. Planet will be merging with ProPharma Group (“ProPharma”), a portfolio company of Odyssey Investment Partners. Financial terms of the transaction were not dis...

WYOMISSING, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Penn National Gaming, Inc. (PENN: Nasdaq)(“Penn National” or the “Company”) announced today that it has received final approval from the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Commission (“Commission”) to acquire the operations of Hollywood Casino Perryville. Penn National entered into a definitive agreement with Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc. (GLPI: Nasdaq) (“GLPI”) in December 2020 to acquire the operations of Hollywood Casino Perryville for $31.1 million i...

NEW YORK & IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Silver Spike Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: SSPK), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company (“Silver Spike”), and WM Holding Company, LLC (“WMH” or the “Company”), a leading technology and software infrastructure provider to the cannabis industry, today announced that Silver Spike’s registration statement on Form S-4 (File No. 333-252186), relating to the previously announced merger of Silver Spike and WMH, has been declared effective by the...

TORONTO & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--360insights, the leading Channel Incentives Management (CIM) provider and creator of the Channel Success Platform™, which includes the new industry-specific, incentive automation (IA) clouds, today announced the acquisition of channelcentral.net, a leading software provider for organizations in the IT Channel. The purchase broadens 360insights’ Channel Success Platform’s capabilities with unmatched CPQ and Channel Data Management (CDM) technology. It also furt...

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MLOGICA, LLC has acquired the Belgrade-based firms MD & Profy and Omni Logika. With their specialization in big data products and solutions, as well as analytics applications for telecom and tax and VAT fraud (VAT is a tax on goods and services applied in numerous countries worldwide), these acquisitions represent a key strategic build-out of the MLOGICA portfolio. “As the consumption of business data assets continues to grow exponentially, effectively managing t...