Kevin Dowd
Forbes
Seattle, WA, United States
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Zendesk’s $10.2 Billion Buyout Is The Latest Sign Of Slumping Tech Valuations
Zendesk is pursuing a buyout after all, a startup serving travel nurses raises $105 million and more from the week in deals. → Read More
An Ambitious Retail Conglomerate Closes In On A Kohl’s Mega-Deal
Franchise Group, owner of The Vitamin Shoppe and Sylvan Learning, is making an $8 billion play for Kohl's. → Read More
Deloitte’s Head Of Investment Banking Reads The Private Equity Tea Leaves
The market for dealmaking is slowing down. But Phil Colaco thinks it's important to remember what it's slowing down from. → Read More
The Aussie Tech Billionaire Who Bet Big Against Coal, Making Enemies At Home And Admirers In The U.S.
Atlassian co-CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes is putting his money behind an effort to make Australia’s biggest power company stop spewing carbon. → Read More
Meet Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard Classmate Who Is Trying To Build A Global Startup Factory
By investing in hundreds of startups at the earliest stages and targeting overlooked markets, Magnus Grimeland and Antler are putting their own twist on the entrepreneurial dream. → Read More
Insight Partners’ IPO Guru Isn’t Worried About A Slumping Market For Public Debuts
IPOs have been few and far between so far in 2022. But the chilly market won't last forever. → Read More
EQT Continues Its Post-IPO Expansion With A $7.5 Billion Deal For An Asian Private Equity Power
EQT's purchase of Baring Private Equity Asia is the latest sign of the Swedish firm's global ambitions. → Read More
How Tiger Woods Helped Fuel A Private Equity Hole-In-One At TaylorMade
Star power, supply chain savvy and a pandemic golfing boom turned KPS Capital’s $380 million investment in golf club maker TaylorMade into $1.7 billion. → Read More
Canada’s Biggest Banks Are Spending Billions On M&A To Build Their Footprint In The U.S.
A $13.4 billion deal for First Horizon continues a pandemic-fueled wave of consolidation among North America’s retail banks. → Read More
Wall Street’s Most Feared Activist Investor Is Changing His Game After Shaking Up Twitter, AT&T And Samsung
With a $17 billion exit and a $16.5 billion takeover already this year, the firm is showing off its ambitions in a different kind of investing. → Read More
Intel Takes Aim At Chip Shortages With A $5.4 Billion Takeover Of Tower
Weeks after announcing plans to spend at least $20 billion on new manufacturing facilities in Ohio, Intel is turning to M&A to fuel its ambitions. → Read More
Nvidia’s Arm Acquisition Is The Latest Chip Mega-Deal To Crumble
A would-be deal worth more than $60 billion is dead after regulators intervened once again in the semiconductor space. → Read More
From Word Puzzles To First-Person Shooters, The Video Game Industry Is Going M&A Crazy In 2022
Sony and The New York Times were the latest acquirers to emerge in a recent flurry of activity. → Read More
Did PetSmart Wait Too Long To Pursue A SPAC Deal?
An ongoing plunge in Chewy's stock price raises questions about the pandemic-fueled surge in the pet-care market. → Read More
Private Equity Firms Smashed Their Old U.S. Spending Record By $500 Billion In 2021
The numbers are in on a record-breaking year, the GP stakes news is piling up and more from the day in deals. → Read More
Rising Interest Rates Could Bring The IPO Market Back To Earth After A Record-Breaking 2021
Last year's market was a perfect storm for IPOs. But in the early days of 2022, new headwinds are beginning to emerge. → Read More
Six Deals That Helped Define The Craziest Year In M&A History
A $43 billion spinoff of ‘Batman’ and HBO and a $30 billion tussle between Canadian railway tycoons highlight a record-breaking year among dealmakers. → Read More
Outdoor Cooking Debuts Stay Hot As Blackstone Products Serves Up A SPAC Deal
Blackstone Products is planning a $900 million combination, Blackstone is eyeing a Motel 6 sale and more from the day in deals. → Read More
The Merger Market Roars Toward The End Of A Wild Year With Even More Mega-Deals
Oracle is making a $28.3 billion bet on healthcare, continuation funds are all the rage and more from the day in deals. → Read More
Reddit, TPG And Gopuff Join The IPO Pipeline
The IPO market is cooling down as a record-breaking year comes to a close. But a slate of major names will aim to heat things back up in 2022. → Read More