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M&A TIMELINE

Apr 1

Marcus & Millichap acquires Metropolitan Capital Advisors

GE closes sale of Biopharma Unit to Danaher

Sandy Spring Bancorp close Acquisition of Revere Bank

Apr 3

Emerson acquires American Governor Company

Tencent exercised an option to acquire $262.2M shares from Huya

JPMorgan Chase to buyout Shanghai International Trust stake in Joint Venture

Apr 6

Hexcel and Woodward cancel Merger

Paylocity set to acquire Vidgrid

Maxlinear to acquire Intel’s Home Gateway Platform Division assets

Apr 7

Accenture acquires Revolutionary Security

SoFi to acquire acquire Galileo Financial for its API functions

Gilead finalises acquisition of Forty Seven for $4.9B

Apr 8

Organovo cancels merger with Tarveda Therapeutics

Sabre acquires Farelogix after winning in Supreme Court

Sino-Global Shipping America enters share purchase for 75% of Mandarine Ocean

Apr 9

Ingredion Incorporated Purchases 75% stake in PureCircle

Blucora will acquire HK Financial Services at new price

Zscaler to acquire startup Cloudneeti

Apr 10

Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot trying to rush their deal to close

Global Net Lease to adopt a poison pill provision

General Cannabis acquires Cannasseur

Apr 13

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals receives $2B investment from Blackstone

JZZ Technologies completes acquisition of Senior Lifestyle Media

Apr 14

Molina Healthcareback out of acquisition of NextLevel Health Partners

Apr 15

Saudi Aramco requesting $10B loan to fund 70% stake in Saudi Basic Industries Corp

American Pacific Mining to purchase Madison Metal’s interest in a joint venture

CordovaCann acquires majority stake of Ontario Inc.

Apr 16

Verizon will acquire BlueJeans for less than $500M

Robinhood Raising $250M in funding

Apr 17

Amazon’s purchase of a stake in Deliveroo provisionally cleared

Chatham Asset Management and Brigade Capital Management consider taking over The McClatchy Company

Apr 20

Novartis acquires Amblyotech

Accenture to acquire Amazon Web Services Consultancy Gekko

COVID-19 continues to slow M&A activity

Apr 21

Morningstar to purchase remaining shares in Sustainalytics

Boxlight to acquire MyStemKits

SoFi announces acquisition of 8 Securities

Apr 22

Wayside Technology to acquire Interwork Technologies

Medallia announces $59M acquisition of Voci Technologies

Facebook buys $5.6B stake in Jio

Apr 23

Advent International completes acquisition of Forescout

PE Giant KKR purchases drake in Mirastar

Apr 24

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Sycamore Partners Backs out of $525M Victoria’s Secret Acquisition

Total interested in acquiring Tullow Oil’s stake in Ugandan oil fields

Apr 27

Imperial Brands PLC sells Cigar business for $1.32B

KKR announces acquisition of KKR from Shapoorji Pallonji Infrastructure Capital

Apr 28

Cresco Labs to purchase assets from Tryke Companies

Aurubis expecting approval for acquisition of Metallo

Optum to acquire virtual therapy provider Ableto for $470M

Apr 29

Blackstone’s takeover of NIBC may not pass regulatory stage

Rapid7 announces acquisition of DivvyCloud

NetApp acquires CloudJumper

Apr 30

Accenture closes on acquisition of Symantec

Supernus Pharmaceuticals announces acquisition of US WorldMeds

Bank of Southern California and CalWest Bancorp adjust Deal Terms