Merger & Acquisition News

MILPITAS, Calif. & DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MariaDB plc today announced the acquisition of Finnish-based company Codership Oy and its flagship product Galera Cluster, a powerful high availability database solution providing high uptime, no data loss and scalability for database growth. With the acquisition, the core Galera team, as well as its founders, will join MariaDB, strengthening the company’s European engineering and technical support team. Since its inception nearly 14 years ago, Galera...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Integrated Partners (“Integrated”), a national financial planning and registered investment advisory (RIA) firm serving more than $21 billion in assets under advisement (AUA), today announced Corey Wealth Partners (“Corey Wealth Partners”), a Boston-based advisory team led by founder and managing partner Jeff Corey, as its latest affiliate. Corey Wealth Partners brings nearly $370 million in client assets and a strong focus on high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth cli...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OpenTeams, a leader in open source AI platforms, systems, and solutions, today announced the acquisition of Quansight’s existing Consulting Division, including its core engineering team. This strategic move strengthens OpenTeams’ mission to deliver customizable, open source-based AI systems to enterprises and government agencies while enabling Quansight to deepen its commitment to sustaining the open source ecosystem through its new structure as a Public Benefit...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vehlo has acquired Dealer Pay, a dealer-specific payments solution with innovative and secure payment processing solutions....

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Project Vision, a patented virtual eyewear fitting platform, is for sale and set to disrupt the $57B progressive lens market with military precision....

SAN FRANCISCO & REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), the world’s #1 AI CRM, and Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, have entered into an agreement for Salesforce to acquire Informatica for approximately $8 billion in equity value, net of Salesforce’s current investment in Informatica. Under the terms of the agreement, holders of Informatica’s Class A and Class B-1 common stock will receive $25 in cash per share. The planne...

GREENWICH, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Littlejohn & Co., LLC (“Littlejohn”), a private investment firm based in Greenwich, CT, today announced that it has acquired RailPros (the “Company”) from Court Square Capital Partners. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. RailPros is a leading provider of outsourced services to rail, utilities, and transportation clients, offering turnkey safety management, engineering, utility observation, real estate permitting, project management, and construct...

CATANIA, Italy--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new era is beginning for Sicilian publishing. La Sicilia, the most widely read newspaper on the island and a reference point for millions of Sicilians worldwide, is now officially under the control of Palella Holdings, the family office led by Italian-American entrepreneur Salvatore Palella, originally from Acireale and long residing in the United States, from where he oversees numerous international business ventures. The transaction, finalized through the Si...

TROY, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Champion Retail Housing, a subsidiary of Champion Homes, Inc. (NYSE: SKY) (together, “Champion” or the “Company”) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Iseman Homes, Inc. and certain affiliated companies (“Iseman Homes”) including its 10 retail sales centers in the Dakotas, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska and Wyoming. This acquisition enhances Champion’s ability to strengthen distribution from its nearby manufacturing facilities, f...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hyatt Hotels Corporation (“Hyatt” or the “Company”) (NYSE: H), a leading global hospitality company, announced today that HI Holdings Playa B.V., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Hyatt (“Buyer”), has extended the offering period of its previously announced cash tender offer to purchase all of the outstanding ordinary shares of Playa Hotels & Resorts N.V. (“Playa”) (NASDAQ: PLYA) for $13.50 per share in cash, less any applicable withholding taxes and without i...