Industry M&A Weekly2026-11-04Global Payments' $40B Unsigned Buyout, Cresta's $2.7B Reported Price, and a $125M Deal the Seller FinancedSix transactions from October 28 to November 4, 2026: a reported $40 billion buyout of Global Payments that nobody has signed, a $2.7 billion price tag on Salesforce's Cresta deal, and a $125 million dialysis purchase the seller is financing in full.
Industry M&A Weekly2026-10-28EQT's $12.1B Qiagen Take-Private, Guidewire's $1.7B hyperexponential Buy, and Three More DealsFive transactions from October 21–28, 2026, led by EQT's €10.8 billion take-private of Qiagen — a week in which three of the four other buyers paid for a capability they already sell alongside.1
Industry M&A Weekly2026-10-21Roche's $510M-Upfront Hansoh ADC Deal, Proofpoint's $6.3B Varonis Buy, and Four More DealsSix transactions from October 15–21, 2026, led by Roche's licence for Hansoh's antibody-drug conjugate platform at up to $15 billion in milestones — a week in which three separate buyers each paid about $6 billion in cash for a software company.
Industry M&A Weekly2026-10-14LSEG's $3.5B Octus Talks, Viatris's $1.65B Pacira Buy, and Four More DealsSix transactions disclosed between October 8 and October 14, 2026, led by LSEG's confirmed talks to buy the credit data provider Octus for about $3.5 billion — a week in which the largest number on the table was also the only one still unagreed.1
Industry M&A Weekly2026-10-07Schneider's $22.6B PTC Buy, Sanofi-Regeneron's $8B Alliance, and Four More DealsSix transactions disclosed between October 1 and October 7, 2026, led by Schneider Electric's $22.6 billion all-cash purchase of the industrial software maker PTC — a week in which one buyer committed more cash than all the others combined.1
Industry M&A Weekly2026-09-30Nubank's £10B Monzo Talks, AMD's $8.2B World Labs Buy, and Four More DealsSix disclosed transactions from September 24–30, 2026, led by Nubank's talks to buy Monzo at up to £10 billion and AMD's $8.2 billion all-stock purchase of World Labs, with most of the week's headline dollars sitting behind milestones.2
Industry M&A Weekly2026-09-23Telix's $1.65B ITM Buy, Priority's $1.6B Take-Private, and Four More DealsSix signed or completed transactions from September 17–23, 2026, led by Telix Pharmaceuticals' $1.65 billion purchase of ITM Isotope Technologies, with most of the week's other headline numbers sitting behind milestones the sellers have yet to earn.1
Industry M&A Weekly2026-09-16Bending Spoons' $1.36B Miro Buy, J&J's $20B Orthopedics Talks, and Four More DealsSix transactions from September 10–16, 2026, led by Apollo's reported $20 billion approach to Johnson & Johnson's orthopedics unit, show buyers paying for customer bases and operating capacity that already exist.2
Industry M&A Weekly2026-09-09Nvidia’s $12.93B Hugging Face Bet, EverBank–WaFd’s $3.9B Merger, and Three More DealsFive disclosed transactions from September 3–9 show buyers bringing AI distribution, bank charters, oncology rights, and autonomous-driving software closer to the operating platform.
Industry M&A Weekly2026-09-02Aon's $17B USI Bet, Lilly's $2.875B Merida Buy, and Two More DealsA four-deal briefing on Aon's USI acquisition, Lilly's Merida buy, First Financial's bank merger, and BitGo's NYDIG trading-business acquisition, with value structures and strategic rationale.1
Industry M&A Weekly2026-08-26Industry M&A Weekly: McKesson's $2.25B Precision Buy, Roche's $2.3B Hanmi License, and Three MoreFive disclosed deals from August 19–26 show buyers paying for clinical-services platforms, cyber underwriting stacks, and late-stage biotech rights while most biotech headline totals stay tied to milestones and royalties.21
Industry M&A Weekly2026-08-19Industry M&A Weekly: Accelerant's $4B Take-Private, Stripe's Reported $7B OpenRouter Deal, and Four MoreSix transactions from August 12–19 show buyers consolidating specialty distribution, AI model access, and late-stage biotech assets while milestone terms shift part of the price into future regulatory and commercial risk.1
