Typically known for leveraged buyouts, large private equity groups have been increasingly interested in sale-leaseback deals in industrial real estate. In a recent Pitchbook article, Adam Lewis details how private equity groups like Blackstone and KKR have been buying up warehouses in order to better capitalize on the growth and trends in ecommerce and logistics. Read More

Salesforce.com Inc. recently announced its intention to acquire Slack Technologies, Inc. for $27.7 billion, its largest acquisition to date. Read More

McCormick & Company recently announced their intent to acquire the Cholula hot sauce brand from private equity firm L Catteron for $800 million. The Cholula brand will join a hot sauce portfolio at McCormick that already contains the very popular Frank’s Red Hot brand. Read More

In a recent Financial Times article, the authors, Ortenca Aliaj, James Fontanella-Khan, and Arash Massoudi, suggest that the combination of the recently released vaccine data along with post-US election certainty is giving deal makers the confidence to push through on new deals; nearly $40 billion worth of deals were announced so far this week. Read More

In a recent Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal article, Carter Jones details the recently announced acquisition of retail technology company, RichContext, by the Minneapolis-based digital marketing firm The Stable. Read More

According to the Institute for Supply Management (ISM), during the month of October, US manufacturing companies grew at their fastest pace since the start of the pandemic. Read More

B&G Foods, a branded food product holding company, recently announced its intent to purchase the Crisco Brand from the J.M Smucker Company for $550 million. The Crisco Brand includes oils and shortening products primarily used for baking. According to a recent article by Monica Watrous of Food Business News, B&G Foods is expecting to see continued growth of the Crisco Brand product family as a result of the increase in cooking and baking at home during the pandemic. Read More

In a recent Star Tribune article, Joe Carlson details Medtronic’s rapid return to normal. Geoff Martha, the medical device company’s CEO, said on a recent call that he believed the company was poised to return to a normal level of revenue and profit growth by January... Read More

APi Group is a Minnesota based business services Company that operates in the United States and Europe. The Company has 40 different businesses under its umbrella, spanning safety, specialty and industrial services. In a recent Star Tribune article, Patrick Kennedy details the Company’s latest M&A activity. Read More

Technology M&A deals have remained abundant throughout 2020. Most recently, SAP has announced that they intend to acquire Austria based Emarsys, a cloud-based marketing platform Read More