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NOAA ProTech 2.0: What $8B Small-Business-Focused Contract Means for Weather, Oceans & Satellites

Americas Policy Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

NOAA’s ProTech is an ~$8B multiple-award IDIQ...

ProTech 2.0 shifts heavily toward small-busin...

Recent awards include 20 Weather-domain firms...

The strategy broadens innovation and supplier...

Russian FDI into Georgia Climbs 16.8% YoY in First Nine Months of 2025 — Real Estate Leads

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

Russian FDI in Georgia rose 16.8% year-on-yea...

Most inflows went to real estate ($15.3M), co...

Recipient firms cited include Samsung Electro...

Georgias overall FDI was volatile in 2025, fa...

BlueScope Rejects A$30/share Bid from SGH & Steel Dynamics: Key Issues & Implications

Global M&A Primary Metal Manufacturing

SGH and Steel Dynamics made a non-binding all...

BlueScope’s board unanimously rejected the of...

The proposal would have SGH buy all of BlueSc...

BlueScope argues its standalone value is high...

Warner Bros Discovery Backs Netflix Deal over Paramount Skydance Bid in Media Meltdown

Americas M&A Motion Picture and Video Industries

Warner Bros. Discovery rejected Paramount/Sky...

WBD said Paramount’s proposal is overly lever...

WBD estimates roughly $4.7B (~$1.79/share) in...

The Netflix transaction is positioned as high...

BlueScope Steel Rejects A$13.2B Takeover—Says Offer Undervalues Assets & Global Operations

Asia M&A Primary Metal Manufacturing

BlueScope Steel’s board unanimously rejected ...

The proposal would have SGH buy all of BlueSc...

BlueScope cited dividend and timing adjustmen...

Management says its standalone plan—capex, pr...

Why Netflix’s $82.7B Offer Beats Paramount’s Risky $108.4B Bid for WBD

Americas M&A Motion Picture and Video Industries

Warner Bros. Discovery urged investors to rej...

WBD prefers its existing Netflix deal, valued...

WBD argues Paramount’s leveraged, debt-heavy ...

Both options face regulatory and legal scruti...

Constellation’s $26.6B Calpine Deal Reshapes U.S. Clean Power Landscape

Americas M&A Utilities

Constellation closed its US$26.6 billion (inc...

The merger combines Constellations nuclear fl...

Approvals from FERC and key state regulators ...

Consideration included about 50 million Const...

Lilly Pays $1.2B for Ventyx to Boost Oral NLRP3 Inhibitor Pipeline

Americas M&A Pharmaceutical and Medicine Manufacturing

Eli Lilly will acquire Ventyx Biosciences for...

The deal bolsters Lilly’s oral inflammation p...

Ventyx’s lead CNS-penetrant NLRP3 inhibitor V...

A second asset, peripheral NLRP3 inhibitor VT...

What Google’s $32B Wiz Deal Means for Multicloud Security & Antitrust Risk

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

Alphabets $32B all-cash deal to buy multiclou...

The U.S. DOJ cleared the transaction in Novem...

After a January 7, 2026 filing, the EU must d...

Regulators and analysts are focused on vertic...

Fifth Third-Comerica Merger Clears Shareholder Vote: What It Means for Regional Banking

Americas M&A Depository Credit Intermediation

Fifth Third and Comerica shareholders overwhe...

Comerica investors will receive 1.8663 Fifth ...

Fifth Third expects the deal to expand its fo...

Key uncertainties include integration executi...