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🇺🇸Oct 18, 2026 US firm DLR Group buys Conran and Partners in first European deal
🇫🇷Oct 18, 2026 France's Scutum buys Catalan security group NiX in Spain build-up
SerbiaOct 18, 2026 ALTA Group buys Serbia's Idea Marketi as Fortenova exits retail there
🇺🇸Oct 18, 2026 Space Age Electronics buys fire-safety maker Gemcom to widen its OEM reach
🇺🇸Oct 18, 2026 HopeHealth buys 40-year-old pediatric practice to widen Pee Dee care
🇨🇦Oct 18, 2026 McDougall buys United Link, pushing group past US$1.17B
🇺🇸Oct 18, 2026 Gallagher buys Colorado surety specialist Innovise to grow Western brokerage
🇺🇸Oct 18, 2026 Core States Group buys Michigan's Hurley & Stewart, tops 650 staff
🇺🇸Oct 18, 2026 NFP buys Minneapolis broker Moores to deepen Twin Cities P&C reach
🇨🇱Oct 18, 2026 Santander to invest $800M in Chile, buys life annuity business
🇨🇦Oct 18, 2026 xSeek buys rival LLMonade to add AI content tools to its search platform
🇺🇸Oct 18, 2026 AirJoule buys data center supplier BitSink for $27M as shares slip
🇬🇧Oct 18, 2026 Complii buys The General Lift Company to grow its South East footprint
🇨🇭Oct 18, 2026 Cotecna buys Hyderabad's Energon Labs to expand pharma testing in India
🇧🇪Oct 18, 2026 Hex-Rays buys bootstrapped six-person AI startup Ventris for up to $35M
🇨🇭Oct 17, 2026 Activate Learning buys curricula provider Open Up Resources
Sri LankaOct 17, 2026 Dialog sells 20% of Doc990 operator for $1.13M
🇬🇧Oct 16, 2026 GSL buys StudentReviews.com to make resident feedback AI-readable
🇮🇳Oct 16, 2026 Mankind Pharma buys majority stake in CAR-T biotech ACTx for €48M
🇭🇰Oct 16, 2026 Cityhill to buy 69% of Macau delivery platform AOMI for $96.1M
🇬🇧Oct 16, 2026 Point74 buys Quor to build food manufacturing's "one-stop shop
🇮🇪Oct 16, 2026 AnyCard, Lifestyle, and Savvy merge into Norell to chase $1.5T gift card market
🇬🇧Oct 16, 2026 Family Tree Group buys Brighton post house The Edit
🇺🇸Oct 16, 2026 Parkview Health to acquire Ovation Healthcare in rural care push
🇺🇸Oct 16, 2026 Gordon Brothers buys Keen to expand its real estate advisory arm
🇨🇳Oct 16, 2026 Shenxun secures $24M loan to fund Zhongke Ruizhe acquisition
🇸🇪Oct 16, 2026 NL-IX buys Sweden's STHIX from Glesys in Nordic expansion push
🇨🇳Oct 16, 2026 Foxconn to buy 50% of Mitsubishi Electric Mobility for $729M
🇺🇸Oct 16, 2026 Fortune Brands sells Fiberon decking unit for $160M, far below 2018 price
🇺🇸Oct 15, 2026 Proofpoint to buy Varonis for $6.3B in cybersecurity consolidation play
🇩🇪Oct 15, 2026 Hannover Finanz takes majority stake in German bathroom maker KEUCO
🇺🇸Oct 15, 2026 Andersen closes four consulting deals in AI, cyber push
🇺🇸Oct 15, 2026 TNS buys netnumber to deepen push against communications fraud
🇨🇱Oct 15, 2026 Chile clears CNA's buyout of Nutrien's local fertiliser arm
🇬🇷Oct 15, 2026 Signal Ocean buys Telix maker Lgmar to merge shipping data and email
🇺🇸Oct 15, 2026 Robots & Pencils buys Tiger Pistol to turn AI patterns into products
🇺🇸Oct 15, 2026 Intuit buys AI revenue startup Sequence to chase mid-market ERP customers
🇨🇦Oct 15, 2026 Psyence Labs takes 49.75% of Psyence Biomedical in $8.99M share swap
🇺🇸Oct 15, 2026 TacticalPay goes independent as founders buy out gun-store payments brand
🇬🇧Oct 15, 2026 Steer Property Group buys two estate agencies, expanding to nine branches
🇬🇧Oct 15, 2026 Celnor buys Safety Solutions Group in fourth Ireland deal
🇩🇪Oct 15, 2026 Igefa completes takeover of Bavarian family firm Zech
🇨🇦Oct 15, 2026 Cohere signs LOI to buy AI vulnerability-hunter AISLE, adding cyber to its sovereign AI stack
🇸🇪Oct 15, 2026 Finland's Norrin buys Gothenburg data firm Mindcamp in Swedish push
🇬🇧Oct 15, 2026 Mistral buys design agency New Material to build enterprise AI team
🇮🇪Oct 15, 2026 Matchbook buys betting exchange Betdaq, folds it into its own
🇺🇸Oct 15, 2026 OpenAI eyes security firm Trail of Bits in cybersecurity push
🇺🇸Oct 15, 2026 Pinnacle Bancorp reaches for Texas with SouthStar Bank deal
🇺🇸Oct 14, 2026 Rush, Endeavor Health plan merger to form 12-hospital Chicago system
🇧🇷Oct 14, 2026 Brazil's Cade clears Panco to buy Nutrella bread brand for $937K
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