September 2021

Happy September which is also Hispanic Heritage, Childhood Cancer Awareness, Sickle Cell Awareness, Suicide Prevention and Self-Care Awareness Month.

The Delta variant of the coronavirus doesn’t appear to be impeding deal flow. August global M&A continued to climb to a record $3.9T.

Following are a number of resources to help you in your pursuit of an acquisition. Contact us if and when we can be of help. In the meantime, please find a selection of resources below to support your efforts. 

INTERESTING

• Summary of infrastructure bill tax changes

• Investor, Trader, Speculator: Which One Are You?

• Secular and Cyclical Trends in Energy Investing

• Business Succession Forum hosted by the Cincinnati Business Courier

• ABCs of Earnouts, Pitfalls, and the Reverse Earn Out

• Robert F. Smith, Vista Equity Partners Operating Manual

• Boards, talent, and culture from McK

• The Strategic Role of the CFO in M&A

• Five Misperceptions of the CRO or CCO

• Value Creation: Everything You Need to Know in 7 Minutes Or Less

• Higher Returns Need A Greater Focus On Tech Integration

LIGHTER FARE

• The Simplest Baby Plan: How new parents can regain control of life

• 5 times Ted Lasso reminded us what great leadership looks like

• On average, adults spend ~4 hrs on their phone (~2 months per year)

• Are you addicted to your smartphone?  

M&A, PRIVATE EQUITY & INDUSTRY UPDATES

AGRICULTURE & FOOD

• 2021 AgFunder Farm Tech Investment Report. Insect ranches, vertical ag among top-funded ‘Novel Farming’ startups

• Adastra Labs Acquired PerceiveMD For $1.84MM

• Cargill Acquired Sanderson Farms For $4500MM

• Dairyland Power Cooperative Acquired Rockgen Energy Center

• Deere Acquired Bear Flag Robotics For $250MM

• Emmi Roth Acquired Athenos

• Farmer Mac Acquired Farm & Ranch

• Farmers Edge Acquired Commoditag

• Growgeneration Acquired Commercial Grow Supply

• Growgeneration Acquired Hoagtech Hydroponics

• Hydrofarm Acquired Greenstar Plant Products For $83MM

• Lifeway Foods Acquired Glenoaks Farms

• Mizkan America Acquired Born Simple

• Pervasip Acquired Artizen

• Philip Morris International Acquired Otitopic

• Precision Aviation Group Acquired Trace Aviation

• Schwazze Signs Acquired Brow 2 For $6.7MM

• Scotts Miracle-Gro Acquired Hawthorne Gardening

• Semios Acquired Agworld

• Sproutly Acquired Cannahive

• Stantec Acquired Paleo Solutions

• The Valens Company Acquired Citizen Stash For $53.4MM

• Tilray Acquired Medmen

• Unrivaled Brands Acquired People’s First Choice

AEROSPACE & DEFENSE

• SpaceX’s upcoming mission to test 3D printed fiberglass and concrete

• Broadtree Partners Acquired Sayrand Associates

• Cobham Acquired Ultra For $3.6B

• Collins Aerospace Acquired Flightaware

• Creation Acquired IEC For $174MM

• Leonardo Drs Acquired Small-Form Gimbal Company

AUTOMOTIVE

• GM recalled its Chevy Bolt EV due to fire risk from LG batteries

• Electric-vehicle makers are pushing for an intermediary role in mining or procurement of battery metals including cobalt, nickel and lithium

B2B

• Accenture Acquired Blue Horseshoe

• Accenture Acquired Lexta

• Accenture Acquired Novetta

• Autoweb Acquired Carzeus For $400K

• Cerberus Sentinel Acquired Velocit

• Clean Harbors Acquired HydroChemPSC For $1250MM

• Epi Group Acquired Disability Help Group And Veterans Help Group

• Fomo Acquired Smartsolution Technologies

• Genuen Acquired Versatech

• Herc Holdings Acquired Cbs Rentals

• Improving Acquired Tahoe Partners

• Intel Acquired Emergbpo

• Kadant Acquired Balemaster For $54MM

• Kingsoft Cloud Acquired Camelot Employee Scheme

• Manpowergroup Acquired Ettain Group For $925MM

• Onboard Acquired Escribe

• Patreon Acquired Clear

• Pivotree Acquired Bridge Solutions Group For $6MM

• Scott Credit Union Acquired Tempo Bank For $93MM

• Servicenow Acquired Mapwize

• Support Services Group acquires Innovative Vision

• Sweeping Corporation Of America Acquired Bill's Sweeping Service, Clean Sweep Lot Service, and Major Clean

• Talkwalker Acquired Reviewbox

• Voxtur Acquired Xome Valuations For $15MM

BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT CONSULTING

• Bowman Consulting Acquired Mcfarland-Dyer & Associates

• Spinnaker Support Acquired Dobler Consulting

• Streamline Health Solutions Acquired Avelead Consulting For $20MM

CONSUMER

• Doordash Acquired Instacart

• Im Cannabis Acquired Vironna Pharm For $4MM

• Lunchbox Acquired Spread

• Recro Pharma Acquired Irisys For $50MM

• Servicemaster Brands Acquired Two Men And A Truck

• Village Farms Acquired Balanced Health Botanicals For $75MM

• Vitrobiopharma Acquired Fitore For $2.3MM and Infinivive Md For $5.75MM

• Wax Center Partners Acquired Six European Wax Centers In Dallas

• Yooma Wellness Acquired Vitality Cbd Limited For $15MM

EDUCATION

• Academic Partnerships Acquired Coursetun

• Achieve Partners Acquired Second Next-Gen Apprenticeship Platform

• Adapdix Acquired Edgintelligence

• American Public Education Acquired Graduate School Usa For $1MM

• Autism Care Partners Acquired Puddingstoneplace

• Begin Acquired Kidpass

• Course Hero Acquired Cliffsnotes

• Creative Learning Acquired Bricks4Schoolz

• Graduway Acquired Peerpal

• Mcgraw Hill Acquired Achieve3000

• The Columbus Organization Acquired Shift New Jersey

• Veeva Acquired Learn about GMP

• Xello Acquired Awato

ENERGY

• NY 1GW offshore wind hub could become operational by 2025

• Stanford will be the first major US university to go 100% renewable

• Approved Oil Acquired Star Industrial Services

• Argus Acquired Oleochem Analytics

• Aurora Solar Acquired Folsom Labs

• Bkv Corp Acquired Temple Generation I For $430MM

• Callon Petroleum Acquired Delaware Basin For $788MM

• Centuri Group Acquired Riggs Distler

• Chesapeake Acquired Vine Energy For $2200MM

• Crestone Services Group Acquired Dilli& Kuhn And Agave Underground

• Dark Pulse Acquired Tjm Electronics West

• Darkpulse Acquired Optilan

• Ecopetrol Acquired Isa For $3600MM

• Encap Investments Acquired Ep Energy Eneti Acquired Seajacks

• Holly Energy Partners Acquired Sinclair For $1800MM

• Hollyfrontier Acquired Sinclair

• Journey Energy Acquired Baytex Huge New Well

• Mitsubishi Electric Acquired Smarter Grid Solutions

• Qualtek Acquired Bacom

• Qualtek Acquired Concurrent

• Quanta Services Acquired Blattner Holding Company

• Requis Acquired Pipebroker.Com

• Terabase Energy Acquired First Solar Analysis Tool

• United Utility Acquired Williams Electric Company

• Woodside In Talks Acquired BHP

ENGINEERING & SCIENTIFIC SERVICES

• Cognizant Acquired Hunter Technical Resources

• Mckim & Creed Acquired Texas Engineering And Mapping Company (T.E.A.M.)

ENVIRONMENT & RELATED

• American Water Works Acquired Village Of Livingstone Wastewater Systems

• California Water Acquired Millerton Water Wastewater Systems

• Coinllectibles Intends Acquired Phoenix Waters Productions

• Fusion Acquired Phoenix Waters Productions

• H2O Acquired Boss Separators Assets

• Montrose Environmental Group Acquired Sensibleiot

• Mubadala Acquired Culligan International

• Mwh Acquired Methuen Construction

FINANCE & INSURANCE

• Finance & Insurance M&A continues to shatter records with CY2021 deals amounting to over $19B which exceeds $13B August CY2020.

• Advisersource Acquired Advisory Equity

• Arch Reinsurance Acquired Somerset Bridge Group

• Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquired Brokers' House and RJ Riordan

• B. Riley Financial Acquired 272 Capital

• Bitcoin Well Acquired Ghostlab For $3.2MM

• Blackstone REIT Acquired WPT Industrial REIT For $1300MM

• Brightstar Capital Partners Acquired Xlerate

• Broadridge Acquired Alpha Omega

• Brookfield Asset Management Reinsurance Acquired American National Group For $5100MM

• Brown & Brown Acquired Sudler Insurance Services

• Brp Group Subsidiary Acquired EBSME

• Cantaloupe Acquired Yoke Payments

• Ci Financial Acquired Budrosruhlin & Roe

• Clearlake Capital Acquired Cornerstone Ondemand

• Community Bank System Acquired Thomas Gregory Associates Insurance Brokers

• Consero Global Acquired Positive Venture Group

• Crown Laboratories Acquired Strivectin

• Dentotal Acquired Dentatechnica

• Endeavour Capital Acquired Fmi Aerostructures

• Equifax Acquired Appriss Insights For $1830MM

• Exyte Acquired Critical Process Systems Group

• Federated Hermes Acquired HFML For $161MM

• First Financial Acquired Hancock Bancorp For $31MM

• Ftx.Us Acquired Ledgerx

• Globe Life Acquired Beazley Benefits

• Goldman Sachs Acquired Nnip For $1700MM

• Hodl Assets Acquired Coinlinked

• Homebot Acquired Nestready

• Hub International Acquired National Home Warranty Group

• M&G Acquired Sandringham

• Markel Agrees Acquired Buckner

• Mcgowan Acquired Assets Of Arbanas & Associates

• NCR Acquired Libertyx

• Newtek Acquired National Bank Of New York City

• Novatech Acquired Digital Office Solutions

• Odyssey Investment Partners Acquired Painters Supply & Equipment

• Praesidian Capital Acquired Leading Testing Business

• Roofstock Acquired Great Jones

• Saxon Capital Group Acquired Saf-Glas

• Square Acquired Afterpay For $2.9B

• Stellantis Acquired F1 Holdings

• Stock Yards Bancorp Acquired Commonwealth Bancshares

• Tcf Acquired Ecn Capital For $2000MM

• Tifin'S Financialanswers.Io Acquired Stocknews.Com

• Tonka Bay Equity Partners acquired Professional Credit & Ensource

• Truist Bank Acquired Service Finance

• Twitter Acquired Afterpay

• Walker & Dunlop Acquired Alliant Capital

• Wealth Enhancement Group Acquired Investor Solutions

• William Raveis Real Estate Acquired Key Solutions Real Estate

• Xperthr Acquired Gapsquare

• Xpress Global Systems Acquired Michigan Carpet / Delta distribution

• Zilch Acquired Zilch

GOVERNMENT, CIVIC & SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS

• Govos Acquired Lodgingrevs and Munirevs

HEALTH CARE

• Healthcare Technology Monthly Update from PJ Solomon

• Life expectancy is at an 18-year low down to 77.3 in 2020

• Healthcare systems are seeing more vacant positions due to worker burnout going back to the peak of the pandemic

• Wyss Institute, MIT develop a mask to detect if you have Covid

• What's the Value of Your Dental Practice? from Salient M&A

• Agtech Global International Acquired Noomeds

• Altus Assessments Acquired One45

• Amyris Acquired Mg Empower

• Ansys Acquired Zemax Pursuant

• Appian Acquired Lana Labs

• Balanced Health Botanicals acquired Village Farms International

• Bico Acquired Advanced Biomatrix For $15MM

• Biocheck Acquired Drg International

• Biolife Solutions Acquired Sexton Biotechnologies For $30MM

• Bioreference Laboratories Acquired Ariosa

• Bioventus Acquired Misonix For $518MM

• Centerbridge Partners Acquired Medical Solutionsbe

• Connect America Acquired 100Plus

• Discovery Behavioral Health Acquired Memorial Hermann Prevention & Recovery Center

• Equifax Acquired Health E(Fx)

• Evolent Health Acquired Vital Decisions For $85MM

• Fox Rehabilitation Acquired Taylorrehab

• Fsd Pharma Acquired Lucid Psycheceuticals For $9MM

• Fulgent Genetics Acquired Csi Laboratories

• Garten Acquired Leanbox

• Genome Medical Acquired Genematters

• Golden Heart Senior Care Acquired Desert Point Homcare

• Guidewell Acquired Triple-S Management

• Illumina Acquired Grail

• Indegene Lifesystems Acquired Medical Marketing Economics For $10MM

• Insight Partners Acquired Inovalon For $6410MM

• Jiddu Acquired Nirveda Cognition

• Kepro Acquired Eqhealth Solutions

• Map Health Management Acquired The Center For Optimal Living

• Medtronic Acquired Intersect Ent For $1100MM

• Modivcare Acquired Vri Intermediate Holdings For $315MM

• Nanox Imaging Acquired Usarad For $30MM

• Nova Leap Health Acquired Oklahoma Home Health Care

• Open Health Acquired Spirit

• Pack4U Acquired Chc Health

• Prophase Labs Acquired Nebula Genomics For $14.6MM

• Sanofi Acquired Translate Bio For $3200MM

• Smart For Life Acquired Nexus Offers

• Spine & Sport Physical Therapy Acquired Envision Sport Physical Therapy & Pilates

• Strata Skin Sciences Acquired RaMedical’s Pharos For $3.7MM

• Streamline Health Acquired Avelead For $20MM

• Surgical Notes Acquired Zulu Health

• Symplr Acquired Spinfusion

• Telos Acquired Diamond Fortress Technologies

• Traditions Health Acquired Lumicare Hospice

• Triple-S Management Acquired Guidewell

• Uniphar Acquired Bestmsls For $36MM

• Unite Us Acquired Carrot Health

• Vision Innovation Partners Acquired Northeastern Eye Institute

HOSPITALITY, TRAVEL & TOURISM

• Apple Hospitality Acquired Ac Hotel By Marriott For $67MM

• Arcis Golf Acquired The Golf Club At Twin Creeks

• Brookfield Acquired Selenta For $523MM

• Empire Portfolio Group Acquired Orangetheory Fitness Studios

• Hyatt Acquired Apple Leisure Group For $2700MM

• Sweetgreen bets on automation by acquiring Spyce robotic kitchen tech

INDUSTRIALS & MANUFACTURING

• Increased e-commerce and labor shortages has created problems and accelerated the need for automation. For instance, Core Industrial Partners acquired metal fabrication provider CGI Automated Manufacturing. Crestview recently invested in automation systems integrator JMP Solutions 

• Intel secured an DoD agreement to establish a chip 18A ecosystem

• How Georgia Tech attracted global robotics company Exotec to Atlanta

• Advanced Instruments Acquired Solentim

• Applied Industrial Technologies Acquired R.R. Floody

• Baxter Acquired Hill-Rom Holdings for $10.5B

• Benvic Group Acquired Chemres

• Cable Manufacturing & Assembly Acquired Cablecraft Motion Controls

• Desktop Metal Acquired Exone For $575MM

• Ehrhardt Automation Systems Acquired SAF Drives

• Extreme Networks Acquired Infovista For $73MM

• Foxconn Acquired Macronix International

• Gencanna Acquired Cbd Capital

• Gladstone Investment Acquired Utah Pacific

• Hardinge Inc. Acquired Ohio Tool Works

• Hype Partners Acquired Agency0X

• John Deere Acquired Accelerate Autonomous

• Jon-Don Acquired Dynamic Diamond Tooling

• Kainos Capital Acquired Muenster Milling

• Kornit Digital Acquired Voxel8

• Lbb Specialties Acquired Centerchem

• Lippert Acquired Furrion For $230MM

• Majestic Steel Usa Acquired Merit Steel Usa

• Manitowoc Acquired Aspen Equipment For $51MM

• Mechanix Wear Acquired Chicago Protective Apparel

• Mei Rigging & Crating Acquired Reno Custom Crating

• Midwest Cooling Tower Services Acquired Tower Performance

• Myers Industries Acquired Trilogy Plastics

• Nordson Acquired Spectris For $180MM

• Parker-Hannifin Acquired Meggitt

• Private Investment Group Acquired Mile Marker Industries

• Pye-Barker Fire & Safety Acquired Kpi Holdings

• Recro Acquired Irisys For $50MM

• Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. Acquired Merfish United

• Royal Circuit Solutions Acquired South Coast Circuits

• Standard Motor Products Acquired Stabil Group

• Stanley Black & Decker Acquired Mtd Holdings For $1600MM

• Thor Industries Acquired Airx Intermediate

• Timken Acquired Intelligent Machine Solutions

• Trademark Global Acquired Bolton Furniture

• Weco Manufacturing Group Acquired FTT Manufacturing

• Westlake Chemical Acquired Dimex

MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• Robocalls are out of control. Is a new mandated technology helping

• Integral Ad Science Acquired Publica For $220MM

• Tinybuild Acquired Animal For $10.2MM

• Vasta Acquired Emme

• Verint Systems Acquired Conversocial For $50MM

• Yalo! Acquired My Friend's Nephew

MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• Formula One US TV audience is up to 928,000 547,000 in 2018

• Formula One is the fastest-growing sports across social, with total followers up 3% to 35MM

• Apple buys classical music streaming service Primephonic

• Bally's Corporation Acquired Telescope

• Biographies Acquired Incorded For $250K

  Biographies Acquired Optants Esports For $640K

• Boost Mobile Acquired Gen Mobile

• Draftkings Acquired Golden Nugget For $1600MM

• Ese Entertainment Acquired Digital Motors

• Exemplis Acquired Future Seating

• Future Acquired The Week For $415MM

• Genius Sports Acquired Spirable

• Gorilla Logic Acquired Modernist Studio

• Grover Gaming Acquired Digital Dynamics Software

• Growve Acquired Zonlux Digital

• Hawke Media Acquired Seriously Creative

• Hubb Acquired Intrado Digital Media

• Linktree Acquired Songlink/Odesli

• Netmarble Acquired Spinx For $2200MM

• Newfold Digital Acquired Yoast

• News Corp Acquired Opis For $1200MM

• Nexstar Media Group Acquired The Hill For $130MM

• Nextplay Technologies Acquired Fighter Base Publishing

• Openexchange Acquired Nucleus195

• Penn National Acquired Score Media And Gaming For $2000MM

• Pershing Square Acquired Universal Music

• PLY Group Acquired Honey Birdette For $235MM

• Podmatch Acquired Poddit

• Pushpay Agrees Acquired Resi Media For $150MM

• Recurrent Ventures Acquired Jancisrobinson.Com

• Revolution Acquired Fivepoints Films

• Roblox Acquired Guilded

• Roblox Acquired Guilded For $90MM

• Scientific Games Acquired Lightning Box

• Scientific Games Acquired Sideplay Entertainment

• Snappr Acquired Pretty Instant

• Synamedia Acquired Contentarmor

• Takumi Acquired Unieed

• Tigercomm Acquired Chase Media

• Wondershare Acquired Ufoto

MINING & NATURAL RESOURCES

• Goldspot Discoveries Inc. Acquired Geotic For $1.99MM

• Imining Acquired Validators 

REAL ESTATE & RELATED

• Real Estate has been steady especially for intelligence and productivity solutions. KKR made a strategic growth investment in PropLogix, a company providing due diligence services and software for closing professionals. Additionally, JLL agreed to acquire Skyline AI, a commercial real estate tech company.

• 31St Street Capital Acquired Total Flooring

• Access Control Systems Acquired Access Security Parking Integrated

• Arlington Capital Partners Acquired Mcr

• Assa Abloy Acquired Capital Door Service

• Clean Streak Ventures Acquired Bluwater

• CMP Pumping Acquired Febcon Concrete pumping

• Dynamic Glass Acquired Colorado Window Systems

• Esr Acquired Ara For $5200MM

• Faurecia Acquired Hella

• Firstservice Corporation Acquired Dki Restoration

• Firstservice Corporation Acquired Moore Restoration

• Kone Acquired Ross Elevator Inc.

• Lone Wolf Acquired Propertybase

• Lres Acquired Keystone Asset Management

• Medican Enterprises Acquired Equity Apple

• MSCI Acquired Real Capital Analytics For $950MM

• Nearu Services Acquired Byrum Heating And A/C

• Nextier Acquired Alamo Pressure Pumping For $268MM

• Pavement Partners Holding Acquired Dominion Paving & Sealing

• Quantela Acquired Cimcon Lighting

• Ready Capital Acquired Red Stone

• Reedy Industries Acquired Mechanical And Environmental Controls Solutions and Page Mechanical Group

• Senske Services Acquired Fit Turf

• Sherwin-Williams Acquired Sika

• Small Business Development Group Acquired Appraisal 3000

• Smartt Acquired Immobilfin for $1.5MM

• Sri Holdings Acquired Accurate Insulation

• Sun Capital Partners Acquired Select Interior Concepts For $411MM

• United Safety Acquired Newcastle Fire Protection Services

• Us Lbm Acquired Mid-Cape Homcenters and Northern Building Supply

• Valet Living Acquired Nfinite Pursuit

• Vici Properties Acquired Mgm Growth Properties

• Viking Pest Acquired B&D Pest Solutions

• White Cap Supply Canada Acquired National Concrete Accessories

• White Cap Supply Holdings Acquired Tri-Supply & Equipment

RETAIL, TRADE & WHOLESALE

• Consumer Retail Monthly Update from PJ Solomon

• Alimentation Couche-Tard Acquired Convenience store

• Alimentation Couche-Tard Acquired Wilsons

• Bauer Hockey Acquired Prosharpe Ab

• Creative Bus Sales Acquired Alliancebus Group

• Digital Brands Group Acquired Stateside For $10MM

• Emerge Commerce Acquired Battlebox For $10.25MM

• Foot Locker Acquired Atmos For $1100MM

• Foot Locker Acquired Wss For $1100MM

• Fox Dealer Acquired Simplext

• Grubmarket Acquired Grant J. Hunt Company

• Hellman & Friedman Acquired Zooplus

• Ideanomics Acquired Via Motors

• KAR Acquired Carwave For $450MM

• KBR Acquired Frazer-Nash Consultancy

• Levi Strauss Acquired Beyond Yoga

• Lithia & Driveway Acquired Rock Honda

• Lmp Automotive Acquired Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram

• Wheel Pros Acquired Driven Lighting Group

• Wolverine Worldwide Acquired Sweaty Betty For $410MM

TECHNOLOGY

• Technology, media, and telecom deals amounted to over $510B in August

• Cybersecurity H12021 Update from Momentum Cybersecurity Group

• Ransomware attacks accounted for about 5% of the incidents and less than 10% of the breaches in 2020

• The Realities of Ransomware in the Middle Market from ACG

• Tech had the 2nd-lowest quit rate (1.4%) and average wages of ~$44/hr

  3Pl Central Acquired Scout Software

• 6Sense Acquired Fortella

• Adobe Acquired Frame.Io

• Aicadium Acquired Singaporai

• Altair Engineering Acquired S-Frame Software

• Assa Abloy Acquired Omni-Id

• Banyan Software Acquired Millennium Computer Systems

• Bigtincan Signs Acquired Brainshark

• Brex Acquired Weav For $50MM

• Bridgestone Americas Acquired Azuga For $391MM

• Cdw Acquired Focal Point Data Risk

• Cisco Acquired Epsagon For $500MM

• Clevr Acquired Digitread Cornerstone Advisors Acquired Coastline Analytics

• Cornerstone Building Acquired Cascade Windows For $245MM

• Counter Threat Solutions Acquired Quantitative Analytics

• Data443 Risk Mitigation Acquired Centurion Technologies

• Defi Technologies Acquired Defi Yield Technologies

• Deloitte Acquired Aecyber solutions

• Deltek Acquired Archisnapper

• Dynata Acquired Inbrain.Ai

• Edgeconnex Acquired Global Datcenter

• Elastic acquires security startup CMD

• Flyr Labs Acquired Faredirect

• Flyr Labs Acquired Xcheck

• Goodsuite Acquired Select Business Systems

• Guidewire Software Acquired Hazardhub

• Gumgum Acquired Justpremium

• Hackeru Acquired Cybint For $50MM

• Hh Global Acquired Adare International

• Hibercell Acquired Genuity Science For $100MM

• Honor Acquired Home Instead

• Hootsuite Acquired Heyday Ai For $47.87MM

• Kelley Connect Acquired Northern Business Systems

• Kelley Connect Acquired Royal Business Systems

• Lexisnexis Risk Solutions Acquired Trunarrative

• Logpoint Acquired Secbi

• Marvell Acquired Innovium

• Marvell Tech Acquired Innovium For $1100MM

• Mechanical Technology Acquired Soluna Computing

• Metamaterial Inc. Acquired Nanotech Security For $72.63MM

• Microsoft Acquired Peer5

• Ministry Brands Acquired Wegather

• Ministry Brands Acquired Weshare

• NCR Acquired Foremost Business Systems

• NortonLifeLock Acquired Avast For $8600MM

• Ontario Systems Acquired Katabat

• Otava Acquired Newcloud Networks

• Paradox Acquired Traitify

• Paymentus Acquired Payveris For $152MM

• Paysafe Acquired Pagoefectivo

• Paysafe Acquired Safetypay For $441MM

• Pdi Signs Acquired Orbis Tech

• Peak Fintech Signs Agreement Acquired Cubeler

• Phantom Space Acquired Micro Aerospace Solutions

• Point Pickup Acquired Grocerkey

• Prodapt Acquired Innovative Logic

• Qualcomm Offers Acquired Veoneer For $4600MM

• Qualtrics Acquired Clarabridge For $1130MM

• Qualys Acquired Totalcloud

• Quantum Acquired Enclouden Technology

• Rekor Systems Inc Acquired Waycare For $61MM

• Robinhood Acquired Say Technologies For $140MM

• Rural Sourcing Acquired Centare

• Sandvik Acquired Cnc Software

• Serviceaide Acquired Sunview Software

• Silversky Acquired Advance Computer Solutions Group

• Sitecore Acquired Reflektion

• Thomas Hogue Acquired Netrepid

• Tobii Acquired Phasya

• Transimpact Acquired Mcg Logistics

• Two Six Technologies Acquired Trusted Concepts

• Velocity Cycling App Acquired Perfpro Software

• Verily Acquired Signal Path

• Wecommerce Acquired Archetype Themes For $20MM

• Whoop Acquired Push

• Workiva Acquired Onecloud

• Wpp Acquired Satalia

• Xigem Technologies Acquired Fooi For $0.5MM

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

• Globalstar up 40% boost following a report that iPhone 13 will utilize direct satellite communication

• 5,000 confirmed data breaches during 2020 according to Verizon

• Gcm Grosvenor Acquired Horizon

• Horizon Acquired Consolidated Cooperative

• Iweb Acquired Tingo Mobile

TRANSPORTATION & LOGISTICS

• Transportation & Logistics deals are expected in increase in volume and price, specifically in manufacturing or warehousing. Shipping executives warn that a shortage of ships could remain a problem for years. Shipping container rates from China have once again approached $20,000, with a cost of $17,507 to the West Coast and $19,098 to the East Coast of the US. United States

• Ait Worldwide Logistics Acquired Intelligent Logistics

• American Industrial Transport Acquired Anderson

• Berlin Packaging Acquired Juvasa Group

• Brandt Tractor Acquired Cervus Equipment For $302MM

• Chargepoint Acquired Viriciti

• Deutsche Post Acquired Hillebrand For $1800MM

• Fleetpride Acquired National Truck Repair

• Harvestone Group Acquired Gateway Terminals

• Novolex Acquired Vegware

• Passport Acquired Access Worldwide

• Point Pickup Acquired Grocerykey For $42MM

• Quarterhill Acquired Electronic Transaction Consultants For $200MM

• Swvl Acquired Shotl

• Tekni-Plex Acquired M-Industries

• Vita Mobile Systems Acquired My2Tum

• Volvo Trucks Acquired Jmc Heavy Duty Vehicle

VETERINARY

• Chewy's sales up 47% last year as its 19M pet parents

• Pet adoption continues to exceed supply and pets may become a luxury

• Zesty Pawsbe Acquired H&H Group

WASTE MANAGEMENT & RECYCLING

• ACV Enviro Corporation Sold by Kinderhook Industries

• Casella Waste Systems Acquires Willimantic Waste Paper

• Clean Harbors to Acquire HydroChemPSC for $1.25B

• Deep Green Acquired Lyell Environmental Services For $1350MM

• GFL Environmental to Acquire Terrapure Environmental

• Global Clean Energy to Acquire Waste to Fuels Facility

• Hiab Acquires US Demountables Manufacturer Galfab

• Novolex Acquires Vegware

• QGistix Acquires Green Wave Computer Recycling

• Waste Connections Acquires E.L. Harvey & Sons