January 2026 – Page 79 – Finance Updates

US M&A Sees Big-Deal Value Surge in 2025 — But Volume & Risks Still Block Growth

U.S. M&A deal values have been volatile since...

Overall 2025 U.S. deal value is about 36% hig...

Deal volumes are growing more slowly than val...

Looking ahead to 2026, modest further volume ...

North America Staffing M&A Trends 2024: Deal Count Down, Healthcare & Place-Search Grow

Americas M&A Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

North American staffing M&A fell to 93 deals ...

Healthcare staffing and place & search were t...

Valuation multiples stayed broadly stable acr...

Q1 2025 deal volume is about 25% higher than ...

How the UP-NS Railroad Merger Could Reshape U.S. Freight Rail

Americas M&A Transportation and Warehousing

Union Pacific is pursuing an $85 billion acqu...

UP projects about $2 billion in new revenue, ...

Labor unions, shippers, state attorneys gener...

The STB review—likely lasting up to two years...

How the 2025 U.S. Government Shutdown Is Delaying IPOs and Halting SEC Review

Americas Markets Finance and Insurance

The October 1, 2025 U.S. government shutdown ...

The SEC issued October 9 guidance allowing is...

Few issuers have used this workaround due to ...

The disruption is raising capital costs, unde...

Medline IPO Rockets to ~$40, Raising $6.26B: Valuation Hits $50–$55B

Americas Markets Health Care and Social Assistance

Medline’s IPO raised about $6.3 billion at $2...

The company will use most proceeds to pay dow...

Strong first-day trading and rich valuation m...

The deal’s scale and PE backing could reopen ...

Europe’s M&A Surge: How Volume, Value & Sector Shifts Are Redefining Deals

Europe M&A Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles

European M&A deal volumes peaked in 2021 afte...

Europe’s largest-ever M&A transaction remains...

Recent European M&A is concentrated in energy...

Financial services M&A in Europe has weakened...

Biotech M&A Surges: AI, Oncology & Rare Diseases Drive Pharma Deals at JPM

Americas M&A Information

Biopharma heads into the J.P. Morgan Healthca...

Recent headline deals by J&J, Eli Lilly, and ...

Expected 2025–2026 deal momentum is driven by...

Risks include smaller deal sizes, persistent ...

What IASIS Healthcare’s IPO Withdrawal Reveals About Hospital Finance Challenges

Americas M&A Ambulatory Health Care Services

IASIS Healthcare, a private equity-backed hos...

The company owned 15 acute care hospitals, on...

IASIS withdrew its roughly US$300 million IPO...

In 2017, Steward Health Care acquired IASIS’s...

U.S. Court Orders $352M Restitution to VTB in Mozambique Hidden Debt Case

Americas Markets Finance and Insurance

A New York federal court ordered $352 million...

The ruling assigns $42.2 million to Chang and...

The judgment confirms that VTB, despite U.S. ...

The case underscores far-reaching U.S. enforc...

SoftBank Acquires DigitalBridge for $4B to Bolster AI Infrastructure Ambitions

Global M&A Scientific Research and Development Services

SoftBank is acquiring DigitalBridge for about...

The deal gives SoftBank control of roughly $1...

The purchase is a core part of SoftBank’s pus...

SoftBank is funding these long-duration AI be...