Mutares Signs Deal to Acquire Steinmuller Engineering from IHI Group
What happened Mutares SE and Co. KGaA has signed a share-deal agreement to acquire Steinmuller Engineering GmbH from Japan’s IHI Corporation, adding a long-tenured German thermal-process engineering specialist to its Energy and Technology segment. Closing is expected in the fourth quarter of 2026, subject to customary conditions. The target designs and delivers combustion and incineration […]
Caterpillar Moves to Own Fabick Cat Midwest Dealership Network
Caterpillar is pulling a century-old Midwest Cat dealer under its own roof. The move is less about adding factories and more about locking down the last mile of parts, service, and customer relationships that decide who wins fleet renewals across construction, agriculture, and standby power. What happened On 29 September 2026, Caterpillar Inc. said it […]
Leica Biosystems Closes StatLab Deal to Widen Pathology Stack
What happened Leica Biosystems, a Danaher company focused on anatomic and digital pathology for cancer diagnostics, has completed its acquisition of StatLab Medical Products. The close was announced on 28 September 2026. StatLab, previously owned by Linden Capital Partners and Audax Private Equity, supplies pre-analytical consumables and equipment that laboratories use before staining, imaging, and […]
AMD Buys World Labs for $8.2 Billion to Shape Next-Wave AI Compute
AMD is not buying another GPU rival. It is buying a front-row seat on how the next class of AI models will stress compute. On 28 September 2026 the company said it will acquire World Labs, the San Francisco AI model and research lab led by Dr. Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock transaction valued at […]
AAR Takes Control of MRO Holdings in $4B Aftermarket Bet
AAR CORP. has agreed to buy a 65% controlling stake in MRO Holdings at an implied enterprise value of $4.0 billion. Announced on 28 September 2026, the deal locks airframe hangar volume that feeds parts, component repair, and software across AAR’s aftermarket platform. What happened AAR (NYSE: AIR), the Wood Dale, Illinois-based Parts, Repair, and […]
EFI and Agfa Combine DPS Units into Global Industrial Inkjet Platform
Electronics for Imaging and Agfa-Gevaert have agreed to fold Agfa Digital Printing Solutions into EFI, creating a jointly held industrial inkjet platform aimed at packaging, display, textile, and other high-volume digital print lines. An affiliate of Siris Capital Group will own 60% of the combined company and Agfa will own 40%, with equal-partner governance. The […]
Sun Pharma Licenses LIB Lerodalcibep Outside US and China
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries is buying distribution and manufacturing scale for a next-wave cholesterol biologic rather than waiting to invent one. On 28 September 2026 the company said it and its subsidiaries signed an exclusive licensing, commercialisation and manufacturing agreement with LIB Therapeutics Inc for lerodalcibep, covering every market except the United States and China. What […]
NIO and Geely Lock Battery Swap Equity Deal at RMB16 Billion Power Tag
China’s two most ambitious electric vehicle groups just moved battery swapping from a brand perk into a capital-markets partnership. NIO and Zhejiang Geely Holding Group signed definitive agreements that put Geely money and commercial-swap assets inside NIO Power while giving NIO a slice of Geely’s charging platform. What happened On 27 September 2026, NIO said […]
NetApp Plans PEAK AIO Deal to Scale AI File Infrastructure
What happened NetApp has announced its intent to acquire PEAK:AIO, a Manchester-based software-defined storage specialist focused on next-generation metadata architecture and high-performance parallel file systems for AI workloads. The planned deal is meant to accelerate NetApp’s AI infrastructure roadmap by pairing PEAK:AIO’s metadata services and parallel namespace design with NetApp ONTAP, the buyer’s long-standing data-management […]
Select Water Buys Pilot for 700 Million to Deepen Delaware Basin Midstream
Select Water Solutions is paying cash and equity for a private Delaware Basin midstream book that already behaves like infrastructure, not a cyclical services bolt-on. That distinction matters for operators, lenders, and rivals watching Permian water bottlenecks tighten. What happened Select Water Solutions (NYSE: WTTR) has signed a definitive agreement to buy Pilot Water Solutions […]