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IMAX (IMAX) sale talks test appetite for premium cinema assets
IMAX sale talks put a $1.86bn premium cinema asset back in play, highlighting buyer appetite for branded exhibition businesses in a selective deal market.
Real Brokerage acquires RE/MAX for $880M in stock-and-cash deal
The Real Brokerage agreed to acquire RE/MAX Holdings for $880 million, forming a combined real estate platform with 180,000+ agents across 120-plus countries.
Cintas Agrees to Buy UniFirst in $5.5 Billion Uniform-Industry Merger
Cintas Corporation has agreed to acquire UniFirst in a $5.5 billion deal that reshapes North America's uniform-rental industry. Shareholders vote June 11.
Prosecutors charge 30 in BigLaw M&A insider trading ring
Federal prosecutors have charged 30 defendants in a decadelong insider trading scheme that saw M&A lawyers at six major US law firms steal confidential deal data and funnel it to traders.
Southeast Asia PE deal value jumps 2.5x to $9.2bn in first quarter
Private equity dealmaking in Southeast Asia hit $9.2 billion in Q1 2026, the highest quarterly total in five years, driven by three megadeals in digital infrastructure. Exit proceeds also jumped 75 per cent to $1.7 billion.
Green Dot net income jumps 109% to $53.8M ahead of Smith Ventures sale
Green Dot Q1 net income more than doubled to $53.8 million as the fintech bank holding company posted a 17 per cent revenue gain and its widest EPS beat in six quarters ahead of a planned sale to Smith Ventures and CommerceOne.
eBay rejects GameStop's $56bn takeover bid as 'neither credible nor attractive'
eBay's board rejected Ryan Cohen's $56 billion bid Monday, calling it 'neither credible nor attractive' over financing gaps and governance concerns.
DOJ charges 30 in global insider trading ring spanning three continents
US prosecutors unsealed criminal charges against 30 individuals in a decade-long insider trading scheme that allegedly generated tens of millions of dollars in illicit profits by front-running approximately 30 merger and acquisition deals. Two attorneys are accused of exploiting law firm access to steal confidential deal documents.
Houlihan Lokey FY revenue hits record $2.6bn; Q4 EPS misses
Houlihan Lokey posted record full-year revenue of $2.6bn for fiscal 2026, up 10 per cent on the prior year. Fourth-quarter adjusted EPS of $1.63 missed estimates, but a record M&A pipeline and a 17 per cent dividend increase kept the investment case intact.
Allegiant (ALGT) and Sun Country (SNCY) shareholders clear $1.5bn airline merger
Allegiant Travel and Sun Country Airlines holders separately approved the cash-and-stock merger and the related ALGT share issuance at special meetings on Friday, with closing expected May 13 and the combined leisure carrier set to operate about 195 aircraft across 650 routes.
BofA taps UBS tech dealmaker Hardegree as M&A vice chair
Bank of America has hired veteran technology banker Richard Hardegree from UBS as a vice chair of M&A, an internal memo shows, adding more than three decades of semiconductor dealmaking experience as global transaction volumes surge past $2 trillion in 2026.
Ex-Willkie M&A counsel pleads guilty as DOJ charges 30 in BigLaw insider-trading ring
Federal prosecutors charged 30 people in what they called a global insider-trading ring that used stolen merger files from three major New York law firms. A former Willkie Farr & Gallagher M&A counsel is among the cooperating witnesses.
Kraken parent Payward to buy stablecoin payments firm Reap for $600m, deepens Asia push
Kraken's parent Payward agreed to buy Hong Kong-based stablecoin payments firm Reap Technologies for up to $600m in cash and stock at a $20bn valuation, its largest deal yet and a clear signal of the IPO pitch: financial infrastructure, not a spot exchange.
Eli Lilly prices $9bn eight-tranche bond, biggest-ever sale to fund $13bn M&A push
Eli Lilly priced $9bn of investment-grade bonds across eight tranches on Wednesday, its largest-ever debt sale, to fund the Centessa and Kelonia acquisitions. The 40-year tranche tightened 33 basis points from initial price talk to 80bp over Treasuries.
