Published September 17, 2026
In the two weeks of September 5–17, 2026, Vest tracked 39 verified US M&A deals with more than $44 billion in disclosed value. The largest: GE Aerospace's $11.75 billion acquisition of Consolidated Precision Products. Kirkland & Ellis led the counsel scoreboard, appearing on 7 deals.
This edition's discussion on LinkedIn →Published, verified appearances across the 39 deals; buy-side and sell-side counted separately.
| Law firm | Deals | Clients this edition |
|---|---|---|
| Kirkland & Ellis | 7 | Cerberus, Accel-KKR, Blackstone, Apax Funds, Altas/L Catterton (co-counsel), VIP, Vyne Medical/TJC |
| Latham & Watkins | 5 | Bending Spoons, Harvey, Sequence Holdings, Wonder, L Catterton (Hyrox) |
| Wachtell Lipton | 4 | EverBank, Centerspace, Analog Devices, Chime |
| Troutman Pepper Locke | 4* | IRT, Eagle Financial, Silver Creek, Baldwin (insurance regulatory) |
| Sidley Austin | 3 | Circle, Vegamour, Thompson Street/Allyant |
| 2 each | Davis Polk, Wilson Sonsini, Holland & Knight, DLA Piper |
*One appearance is a specialist (insurance-regulatory) role.
On 23 of 39 US M&A deals announced September 5–17, 2026, at least one side's legal counsel was never publicly named.
Usually the sell side. Tracked weekly on this page.
GE Aerospace agreed to acquire aerospace-castings maker Consolidated Precision Products for $11.75 billion, financed with $7 billion of cash on hand plus new debt. Source: GE Aerospace
Multifamily REITs Independence Realty Trust and Centerspace agreed to an $8.1 billion all-stock combination. Source: Troutman Pepper Locke
Sequence Holdings and DFO Management, Michael Dell's family office, agreed to take insurance broker The Baldwin Group private at $32.50 per share in cash, a $7.7 billion enterprise value; Troutman Pepper Locke served as Baldwin's insurance-regulatory counsel. Source: Davis Polk
EverBank Financial and WaFd agreed to a $3.9 billion reverse merger creating a bank with roughly $75 billion in assets. Source: Simpson Thacher
Brookfield agreed to acquire US-headquartered, ASX-listed Reliance Worldwide, maker of SharkBite plumbing fittings, at US$3.38 per share in cash, an enterprise value of about $2.8 billion. Source: SEC filing
Copart agreed to acquire vehicle-auction marketplace ACV Auctions for $10.50 per share in cash, about $1.9 billion. Source: Davis Polk
Cerberus agreed to sell net-lease real estate platform Tenet Equity to CBRE Investment Management for $1.6 billion. Source: PRNewswire
Robotaxi company May Mobility agreed to go public through a business combination with ACP Holdings at a pro forma enterprise value of about $1.4 billion, with a $120 million committed PIPE; the pro forma value is not counted in this edition’s disclosed total. Source: SEC filing
Bending Spoons agreed to acquire collaboration platform Miro at a $1.355 billion enterprise value (about $1.79 billion equity value including Miro's net cash), roughly 90% below Miro's 2022 peak valuation. Source: Latham & Watkins
Analog Devices agreed to acquire edge-AI chipmaker Alif Semiconductor for $1.35 billion upfront in cash, plus up to $200 million in contingent consideration. Source: SEC filing
Chime agreed to acquire its long-time partner bank Stride Bank for $590 million, becoming a bank holding company. Source: Chime
Plains All American agreed to acquire Silver Creek Midstream’s Powder River Basin assets from Tailwater Capital and The Energy & Minerals Group for about $585 million in cash. Source: PRNewswire
Circle agreed to acquire Singapore-based cross-border payments platform Tazapay for $400 million in stock. Source: Business Wire
AURELIUS agreed to acquire Hain Celestial's international business, including Ella's Kitchen and Linda McCartney Foods, for a gross price of about £238.5 million (~$323 million). Source: AURELIUS
DoorDash agreed to acquire Wonder's Grubhub Campus Dining business for $300 million, alongside a separate $125 million DoorDash investment in Wonder's Series D. Source: DoorDash IR
John Marshall Bancorp agreed to acquire Eagle Financial Services, parent of Bank of Clarke, in an all-stock merger valued at about $253 million. Source: joint release
Crane agreed to acquire the US pump business of First Reserve-backed Trillium Flow Technologies, including the Floway and Roto-Jet brands, for $240 million in cash. Source: SEC filing
Nasdaq-listed Swarmer agreed to acquire Ukraine-based defense-tech company Ratel Robotics for up to $224 million in cash and stock, including an earn-out. Source: SEC filing
Cyient agreed to acquire AI-native engineering services firm TAO Digital Solutions for $218 million. Source: K&L Gates
Exact announcement day unresolved (K&L Gates cites Sep 10, Haynes Boone cites Sep 8).
US private equity firm Accel-KKR agreed to acquire UK-listed construction software company Eleco plc at 235 pence per share in cash, about £207.6 million fully diluted. Source: RNS
Stockdale Capital Partners and Hamilton Lane acquired The Shoppes at Chino Hills, a 378,140-square-foot Southern California shopping center, for $157 million. Source: Stockdale Capital release
Veracyte acquired bladder-cancer genomics company Convergent Genomics for $150 million in cash upfront, plus up to $30 million in milestone payments. Source: SEC filing
Carolwood L.P. agreed to acquire Thryv Holdings' print directories business, its US, Australian, and New Zealand Yellow Pages and White Pages operations, for $142 million in cash. Source: SEC filing
Nasdaq-listed AirJoule Technologies acquired BitSink’s AI and HPC infrastructure cooling business for $18 million in cash and $9 million in stock upfront, plus an earn-out of up to $40 million. Source: SEC filing
Blackstone agreed to acquire data-center liquid-cooling components maker Flow Control Holdings from Audax Private Equity, which retains a minority stake. Source: Kirkland & Ellis
Funds advised by Apax agreed to acquire security systems integrator NextGen Security from Dunes Point Capital. Source: Dunes Point Capital
Bain Capital portfolio company Envestnet agreed to acquire wealth-management platform Vestmark. Source: WilmerHale
Legal AI company Harvey acquired Guardrails AI on the same day it announced a $550 million raise at a $15.5 billion valuation. Source: Latham & Watkins
Altas Partners and L Catterton agreed to a majority strategic investment in health platform Fullscript. Source: Fullscript
A consortium led by L Catterton, alongside Hyrox's founders and WndrCo, completed the purchase of Infront Sports & Media's majority stake in fitness-racing brand Hyrox. Source: Latham & Watkins
Software delivery platform Harness acquired agentic code-review company DeepSource. Source: Paul Hastings
New Water Capital acquired custom foodservice-lid manufacturer LidWorks. Source: Reed Smith
Sotheby's International Realty agreed to acquire its Florida franchise ONE Sotheby's International Realty, taking it company-owned. Source: Mondaq
Food-and-beverage technology provider VIP agreed to acquire Encompass Technologies. Source: PRNewswire
Belle Brands acquired hair-wellness brand Vegamour. Source: Sidley Austin news listing
Allyant, a Thompson Street Capital Partners portfolio company, acquired accessible-document provider Braille Works. Source: Braille Works announcement
MRO agreed to acquire clinical data management company Vyne Medical from TJC; terms were not disclosed. Source: PRNewswire
Kiteworks acquired Israeli AI data-security startup Bonfy.AI; terms were not disclosed. Source: Kiteworks newsroom
US-listed Ondas agreed to acquire Israeli defense-tech company GATE Technologies and affiliate Bron Technologies for $205 million upfront ($105 million cash, $100 million stock) plus up to $185 million in performance earn-outs. Source: Ondas IR
Prytek Group acquired Israeli digital-identity and KYC company Scanovate in a deal worth about $50 million. Source: Globes
WeSure Global Tech and CEO Yair Levinstein agreed to acquire control of Altshuler Shaham Finance for a total of NIS 1 billion, taking stakes of 45% and 25% respectively. Source: Globes
Kiteworks x Bonfy.AI (Sept 8, above) is also an Israel-corner deal: Israeli target, US acquirer.
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This edition covers M&A deals announced September 5–17, 2026, with a US target or acquirer. Every announcement date and value was read from the company's own release or SEC filing, never from a law firm's later write-up. Counsel is credited only from published sources, per side; "not yet disclosed" means no source names them. Seven widely circulated "this week" deals were excluded after date checks against original filings. Israel-domestic deals in the Israel corner (Prytek x Scanovate, WeSure x Altshuler Shaham) are listed for the record and sit outside the US deal count.
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