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How the 2025 U.S. Government Shutdown Is Delaying IPOs and Halting SEC Review

The October 1, 2025 U.S. government shutdown ...

The SEC issued October 9 guidance allowing is...

Few issuers have used this workaround due to ...

The disruption is raising capital costs, unde...

Medline IPO Rockets to ~$40, Raising $6.26B: Valuation Hits $50–$55B

Americas Markets Healthcare

Medline’s IPO raised about $6.3 billion at $2...

The company will use most proceeds to pay dow...

Strong first-day trading and rich valuation m...

The deal’s scale and PE backing could reopen ...

Europe’s M&A Surge: How Volume, Value & Sector Shifts Are Redefining Deals

Europe M&A Private Equity

European M&A deal volumes peaked in 2021 afte...

Europe’s largest-ever M&A transaction remains...

Recent European M&A is concentrated in energy...

Financial services M&A in Europe has weakened...

Biotech M&A Surges: AI, Oncology & Rare Diseases Drive Pharma Deals at JPM

Americas M&A Technology

Biopharma heads into the J.P. Morgan Healthca...

Recent headline deals by J&J, Eli Lilly, and ...

Expected 2025–2026 deal momentum is driven by...

Risks include smaller deal sizes, persistent ...

What IASIS Healthcare’s IPO Withdrawal Reveals About Hospital Finance Challenges

Americas M&A Healthcare Services

IASIS Healthcare, a private equity-backed hos...

The company owned 15 acute care hospitals, on...

IASIS withdrew its roughly US$300 million IPO...

In 2017, Steward Health Care acquired IASIS’s...

U.S. Court Orders $352M Restitution to VTB in Mozambique Hidden Debt Case

Americas Markets Financial Services

A New York federal court ordered $352 million...

The ruling assigns $42.2 million to Chang and...

The judgment confirms that VTB, despite U.S. ...

The case underscores far-reaching U.S. enforc...

SoftBank Acquires DigitalBridge for $4B to Bolster AI Infrastructure Ambitions

Global M&A AI & Machine Learning

SoftBank is acquiring DigitalBridge for about...

The deal gives SoftBank control of roughly $1...

The purchase is a core part of SoftBank’s pus...

SoftBank is funding these long-duration AI be...

How Private Equity Is Fueling Maritime Infrastructure Growth: The T. Parker Host Case

Americas M&A Private Equity

Metalmark Capital made a strategic, undisclos...

The deal coincided with Host’s acquisition of...

The Host family, led by majority shareholder ...

The partnership targets growth in bulk and br...

Global Insurance Trends 2026: Premiums Cool, AI & Alternatives at Forefront

Global Forecast Financial Services

Global insurance is entering a tougher, slowe...

P&C insurers face margin pressure from rising...

Life & Annuity carriers are pivoting toward a...

Insurers are scaling AI and digital tools fro...

Cantor Fitzgerald Buys UBS’s O’Connor For $11B—Boost in Alternatives & Private Credit

Americas M&A Asset Management

Cantor Fitzgerald has completed the first clo...

The deal adds about US$11 billion in AUM acro...

For UBS, the sale is financially immaterial b...

The transaction reflects a broader trend of b...