Mergers and Acquisitions

As part of the transaction's approval, Aerojet Rocketdyne's shareholders will receive a special pre-closing dividend of $5 per share in common stock and convertible senior notes in March 2021, which, unless revoked, is expected to reduce the transaction's purchase price to $51 per share. 

Big players explore acquiring rivals and going public through blank-check companies

Aphria Inc. and Tilray Inc. have agreed to merge in a deal that forms the world’s largest cannabis company.

Apple helped the Nasdaq Composite hit a fresh record.

The mergers and acquisitions boom will continue over the next few years says Goldman Sachs fueled by $61 billion waiting in the wings.

Britain’s AstraZeneca has agreed to buy U.S. drugmaker Alexion Pharmaceuticals for $39 billion in cash and shares to bolster its positions in immunology and rare diseases.

U.S. telecommunications firm AT&T Inc has agreed to sell its Crunchyroll anime business to Sony Corp’s Funimation Global Group, LLC, both companies said in a joint statement late Wednesday.

PhonePe competes with Alibaba-backed home-grown payments pioneer Paytm and Google Pay

Investors beat back the bears with the S&P and Dow chalking up wins.

Salesforce Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff has jumped to the front of the class as the preeminent dealmaker in the industry.

Salesforce's purchase of Slack is its largest ever.

The battle for control of the cloud-based communication, increasingly critical as more Americans work remotely, is heating up amid reports Salesforce.com is in advanced talks to buy workspace messaging platform Slack Technologies.

The mega deal, which includes $4.8 billion of debt, is a sign that deal-making activity is accelerating as breakthroughs in developing COVID-19 vaccines improve the economic outlook.

Goldman Sachs is using drone technology to conduct virtual tours of companies and close merger and acquisition deals amidst the coronavirus pandemic. 

Salesforce may be eyeing its largest acquisition ever.