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🇮🇳Oct 21, 2026 Modi family's $6.2M open offer targets control of South India Paper Mills

🇺🇸Oct 21, 2026 Sanwire buys Australia's Bateau Asset Management, mostly with stock and debt

🇺🇸Oct 21, 2026 Granite Creek, Columbia Basin acquire Western US coatings provider Matheson

🇨🇦Oct 21, 2026 Defence investor OPG rescues Ottawa's Allen-Vanguard out of receivership

🇦🇺Oct 21, 2026 IFM to buy control of UK's biggest ports group ABP from Canadian pension funds

🇬🇧Oct 20, 2026 JDG buys Mighty House in second acquisition in months

🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026 OpenAI buys Orchestra Bio to push AI agents into drug development

🇫🇷Oct 20, 2026 Moorkens family sells bus-parts leader CBM to French investor LFPI

🇮🇱Oct 20, 2026 Trinity buys Verix to turn pharma AI insights into field action

🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026 Computomic buys Data Surge to deepen Databricks push into US government

🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026 Salesforce to buy Braze for $5.66B: a 58% premium, but below Braze's 2021 IPO price

🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026 Life Science Connect buys CDMO sourcing platform BrevisRefero

🇬🇧Oct 20, 2026 Plus500 buys Brazil's Guru in second deal this week

🇸🇮Oct 20, 2026 Italy's Mipot buys 51% of Slovenia's Atech in electronics tie-up

🇹🇭Oct 20, 2026 Betagro buys majority stake in Thai food platform Freshket

🇭🇰Oct 20, 2026 First Digital to go public via SPAC merger in down round from $400M peak

🇺🇸Oct 19, 2026 Platinum Equity buys majority of Italy's Trime to chase US power demand

🇮🇳Oct 19, 2026 Lord's Mark buys 1939-founded Radiotone transformer maker

🇨🇭Oct 19, 2026 Sika buys UK's Azpects to expand in polymeric landscaping materials

🇮🇱Oct 19, 2026 Harmoniz buys Dutch tomato breeder HW Seeds to deepen flavour focus

Oct 19, 2026 Rum City Foods expands with new acquisition

🇩🇪Oct 19, 2026 Germany's Bellmer buys Brazil's Rolotipo to expand Latin American roll services

🇫🇷Oct 19, 2026 French group Europa buys UK's Life Science Access Academy

🇩🇪Oct 19, 2026 Maccaferri buys Iterchimica and Surface Tech to build lower-carbon road vertical

🇺🇸Oct 19, 2026 Gallagher buys UK maritime law firm Winter & Co

🇧🇪Oct 19, 2026 Belgium's Rosseel buys steelmaker Aleja in sector consolidation push

🇺🇸Oct 19, 2026 Philadelphia's Spector Gadon acquires South Jersey's Dash Law

🇺🇸Oct 19, 2026 Cushing Terrell buys Seattle's Graphite Design Group, builds 30-plus local team

🇺🇸Oct 19, 2026 Andersen Group buys UK tax arm in 16-deal, $134M expansion push

🇲🇾Oct 19, 2026 Sino Green Land to buy 80% of Hi-Quality Productions for $1.8M

🇺🇸Oct 19, 2026 Graycliff's GCP Ascend fund backs ValveTek and MeterTek water-utility services

🇦🇹Oct 19, 2026 DELTA Group buys majority stake in Vienna engineering firm Katzkow & Partner

🇬🇧Oct 19, 2026 Phenna Group buys Italy's Studio Santi to deepen energy transition work

🇯🇵Oct 19, 2026 Ichinen takes on US$140.2M loan to fund two acquisitions

Middle East & AfricaOct 19, 2026 Qatar's Snoonu buys YC-backed BiteSight to add video food discovery

🇳🇴Oct 19, 2026 DNV lands second Chilean aquaculture deal in a week with Aquabench

🇺🇸Oct 19, 2026 Ares buys railcar lessor Infinity from KKR for $2.9B

🇵🇱Oct 19, 2026 Four Czech and Slovak tycoons buy Poland's Gemini pharmacy chain

🇦🇪Oct 19, 2026 DKSH buys NewBridge for $390M to enter Middle East healthcare

🇹🇷Oct 19, 2026 Pasifik Eurasia buys 25% of rail-systems firm Metrosis for €2.5 million

Cayman IslandsOct 19, 2026 OpenWorld to acquire AI agent startup Blocksight to power $1B tokenization push

🇸🇪Oct 18, 2026 Can-Am Chains buys Sweden's Nordic Quick Systems for quick-change sprockets

🇬🇧Oct 18, 2026 JMC Legal Recruitment directors buy out founder in management acquisition

🇪🇸Oct 18, 2026 Swiss HR platform atwork buys Germany's Cubia to pair AI with 26 years of survey data

🇯🇵Oct 18, 2026 Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank takes full control of digital asset firm JADAT

🇺🇸Oct 18, 2026 Revolve takes minority stake in activewear brand 437 in ~$11M deal

🇮🇳Oct 18, 2026 Tata Motors buys 26% of e-bus startup for $2,700

🇺🇸Oct 18, 2026 MSBG buys SunMetricLab solar calculator to expand its blockchain grid network

🇬🇧Oct 18, 2026 Raccoon Media buys stake in Edition Dog Live to expand animal events

🇱🇹Oct 18, 2026 Tesonet-linked firm buys five-star Grand Hotel Vilnius