The M&A Dealmaker

June 2023 issue of The Dealmaker

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Welcome to the June 2023 issue of The Dealmaker.

The M&A activity ahead may not all be eye-catching megadeals, which have ebbed since hitting their peak in 2021, but rather a healthier level of mid-market deals as companies pursue their strategic growth agendas. These smaller deals can also drive transformation and growth. While cash-rich corporates remain well positioned to make larger moves, we see mid-market transactions dominating the market in coming months as CEOs use a program of both strategic acquisitions and select divestitures to transform their portfolios for the future.

Here are some of the articles that our colleagues found interesting. Enjoy the reading and please send us ideas and comments:

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How PE is paving the way for private wealth

Private equity has traditionally been a preserve for institutional investors, yet fund managers are increasingly targeting high-net-worth individuals.
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Stocks making the biggest premarket moves: Tesla, Moderna, Alphabet, PacWest and more

Tesla - Shares dropped 1.9% after Goldman Sachs became the latest Wall Street bank to downgrade the electric-vehicle maker to neutral from buy. Goldman cited the difficult pricing environment for electric vehicles, as well as the stock’s recent run up, for the call.
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SoftBank-backed startup Improbable outlines plan for metaverse to rival Microsoft, Meta

Improbable, a SoftBank-backed startup developing huge virtual worlds launched its plans for a network of metaverses that it hopes will one day be capable of hosting thousands of users and compete with platforms from U.S. tech giants such as Meta and Microsoft.
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China's Baidu says its new AI beat ChatGPT on some metrics

Baidu Inc (9888.HK), , China's leading search engine provider, said the latest iteration of its ChatGPT-style service had surpassed the widely popular Microsoft-backed OpenAI chatbot on multiple key metrics.
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Amazon cloud unit to invest nearly $8 billion in Ohio

Amazon.com's (AMZN.O) cloud computing division would invest $7.8 billion through 2030 in Ohio to expand its data center operations, it said on Monday.
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Why is there a stock market correction of between 3% and 5%?

The market has gone 73 sessions without suffering a significant fall.The Vix volatility index -also known as the fear index- has just fallen to the lows it had in February 2020, just before the Covid pandemic confined a large part of the planet to their homes. The current relaxation in Bols.
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The most active investors in generative AI

Investors are having a love affair with generative AI. In 2022, $4.5 billion was pumped into generative AI startups with big tech players going all in on a select few companies while VCs scoured for startups working at the intersection of AI and everything else.
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Vodafone and Three agree merger to form UK’s largest mobile operator

The newly combined company will, if the merger is completed, have more than 27 million subscribers, leapfrogging EE, owned by BT, and Virgin Media O2, owned by Spain’s Telefónica and the US-listed company Liberty Global.
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