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For the week ended June 20, the CDT Roundup reported on 11 deals with a disclosed value of $68.1 billion. Those are numbers that come naturally when SpaceX is involved.
Aside from a $60 billion SPCX stock swap for a San Francisco AI startup, there was an abundance of other billion-dollar deals. Pizza Hut had two of them, in fact.
That and more in this edition of CDT Roundup.
For the week ended June 13, the CDT Roundup reported on ten deals with a disclosed value of $11 billion.
A year ago at this time, the Roundup reported on nine deals with a combined disclosed value of $478 million.
By far the largest deal of the week was a massive venture involving PE, a sovereign fund, a power provider and a major chipmaker. That and more in this edition of CDT Roundup.
For the week ended June 6, there were 14 deals reported to CDT Roundup with a combined disclosed value of about $9.5 billion.
That said, you might take note of the overabundance of material covered in our Late Arrivals and Other Matters section, as well as other deals in this week's edition.
Three AI-related deals. A soon-to-be-Japanese-owned digital infrastructure provider sopped up a major alternative energy investor. A Miami-based PE firm bought 10 data centers. You get the idea.
For the week ended May 30, the CDT Roundup reported on 14 transactions valued at a nearly $19.9 billion.
That falls short of last week's 15 deals for $75 billion, but within shouting distance of the 19 transactions valued at $23 billion at this time last year.
That and more in this edition of CDT Roundup.
Sixteen deals were reported to the CDT Roundup this week valued at $79.4 billion the second-highest weekly total recorded this year — or, if you prefer, the largest weekly total that didn’t involve SpaceX. Well, not exactly.
That and more in this edition of CDT Roundup.
For the week ended May 16, the CDT Roundup reported on 12 deals – eight of which were in capital markets – with a total value of about $6 billion, which are both down from the prior week's 21 deals valued at $11.3 billion.
Despite the light slate, last week's transactions were dominated by energy of all kinds.
For the week ended May 9, the CDT Roundup is reporting 21 deals valued at nearly $11.3 billion. And that doesn't include a $3.25 billion notes offering that closed three weeks ago nor the $56 billion unsolicitied offer for eBay by $11 billion-market-cap GameStop scooped by The Wall Street Journal last week.
White & Case is advising Grapevine-based GameStop, with a team led from New York. GameStop's general counsel is Mark Robinson, who received the 2023 DFW Corporate Counsel Award for General Counsel of the Year for a Small Legal Department.
That and more in this edition of CDT Roundup.
For the week ended May 2, the CDT Roundup reported on 13 deals valued at nearly $37.9 billion. The prior week had 11 deals reported with a total value of about $19.7 billion, while a year ago at this time, the Roundup reported on 11 deals valued about $4.3 billion.
On the M&A side, the week proved to be all about power and energy and data centers. That and more in this week's CDT Roundup.
For the week ended April 25, the Roundup reported on 11 deals worth about $19.7 billion, or maybe $69.7 billion, depending on how SpaceX's latest acquisition pans out.
Aside from the SpaceX rent-to-own deal this week's slate of transactions includes the acquisition of a Brazilian Rare Earth source with a 15-year offtake agreement with the U.S.-backed buyer already in place; a $1.5 billion investment in a REIT that specializes in communications towers; the reverse-merger of an offshore oil services firm with a Houston-based competitor; the acquisition of a fiber provider in Alaska; the sale of a compression services provider to a Lubbock firm and the sale of a minority stake in a hyperscale data center developer.
That and more in this edition of CDT Roundup.
For the week ended April 18, the CDT Roundup reported on 14 deals with a total valuation of just over $3.5 billion, and nearly half of that value came from one deal. The prior week had 10 deals reported with a total value of slightly more than $5 billion, while a year ago at this time, the Roundup reported on 13 deals valued at nearly $2.4 billion. While total deal volume is up of late, total values are muted somewhat by a number of deals reported sans financial terms.
That and more in this edition of CDT Roundup.
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