With the Labor Day holiday — and summer in the US — now officially over, the traditional push to the end of the year in the market for initial public offerings is on.
A surge of mergers and public offerings in the final months of 2026 could push dealmaking volumes to a new high, despite growing concerns over the economy, according to Dorothee Blessing, co-head of global investment banking at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Banks, private equity and capital markets show very little sign of slowing down on financing the massive artificial intelligence infrastructure build-out that is thriving in the US, according to Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners Chief Executive Officer Mike Dorrell.
The market for initial public offerings in the technology sector is entering what Barclays’ Jamie Turturici, head of TMT equity capital markets, called “a golden age” as a slew of companies head for public markets.
Smaller deals involving regional banks and wealth managers are driving acquisitions in the financial services industry, according to a clutch of industry watchers.
PagsGroup Chief Executive Officer Stephen Pagliuca sees a clutch of growing industries, including artificial intelligence and sports, as a key focus for investment over the long term.
Acquisitions in the sports industry are set to increase as investors leverage a slew of different approaches to the fast-growing sector, according to William Blair & Co.’s head of investment banking.
Players of Leverkusen (L and R) and of Wolfsburg (C) vie for the ball during the German first division Bundesliga football match Bayer Leverkusen vs VfL Wolfsburg in Leverkusen, western Germany, on October 15, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / PATRIK STOLLARZ / RESTRICTIONS: DURING MATCH TIME: DFL RULES TO LIMIT THE ONLINE USAGE TO 15 PICTURES PER MATCH AND FORBID IMAGE SEQUENCES TO SIMULATE VIDEO. == RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE == FOR FURTHER QUERIES PLEASE CONTACT DFL DIRECTLY AT + 49 69 650050 (Photo credit should read PATRIK STOLLARZ/AFP via Getty Images)
The variety, range and scope of deals in the market suggests transaction volumes will continue to remain strong in the second half, according to Melissa Sawyer, head of global mergers and acquisitions at Sullivan & Cromwell.
Shares of Edgewell Personal Care Co., which makes Schick razors, rose nearly 18% in New York on Tuesday after the company rejected an unsolicited takeover offer from private equity firm Yellow Wood Partners.
A Schick Hydro Silk Pubic Skin razor arranged in the Brooklyn borough of New York, US, on Wednesday, June 19, 2024. The spate of new uses for old products is a somewhat awkward attempt by some of the world’s biggest packaged goods-makers, including P&G, Unilever Plc and Edgewell Personal Care Co. to claw back sales in the US’s more than $100 billion personal care and beauty market.
OpenAI may be a marquee corporate name but working with the tech giant is business as usual for TPG Inc.
The OpenAI logo on a laptop computer arranged in the Brooklyn borough of New York, US, on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. Microsoft Corp. is in discussions to invest as much as $10 billion in OpenAI, the creator of viral artificial intelligence bot ChatGPT, according to people familiar with its plans. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg
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