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The private company data space is vast, fragmented, and often overwhelming. Deal sourcing teams are faced with endless streams of announcements, filings, atSnd rumors, making it difficult to pinpoint the transactions that actually matter.
That’s why inside Joe, Powered by Dakota, we’ve zeroed in on this space. We’ve created a centralized resource where deal sourcers can easily find and track the exact deals they’re looking for.
In this article, we’ve curated 10 top transactions from last week that stood out in the marketplace and signal key trends shaping the deal landscape. By the end of this, you’ll have a better understanding of these deals.
Josh Kushner and Bob Iger have agreed to acquire the Los Angeles Lakers from Mark Walter for $12.5 billion, a record valuation that tops the roughly $10 billion Walter paid for his controlling stake from the Buss family just last year. The deal, which came together in three days after Kushner and Iger's pursuit of an NBA Las Vegas expansion team pivoted toward Walter, still requires approval from the NBA's board of governors at its September meeting in New York. Walter, who retains his other sports holdings including the Dodgers, Sparks, Chelsea FC, and Cadillac F1, is selling only the Lakers in this transaction.
Curium US Holdings agreed to acquire Lantheus Holdings for $102.50 per share in cash plus contingent value rights of up to $12.00 per share, representing total consideration of up to $114.50 per share and a transaction value of up to approximately $8.0 billion — a 38% premium to Lantheus's unaffected 60-day VWAP. The combination unites Curium's global radiopharmaceutical manufacturing with Lantheus's U.S. commercial infrastructure and diagnostics franchise, spanning the full nuclear medicine value chain across more than 70 countries. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2027, after which Lantheus will cease to be publicly traded.
Goldman Sachs agreed to acquire NEOS Investments, a systematic options-based income ETF provider managing $30 billion in assets, for consideration of up to $2.25 billion in cash and equity subject to performance and service milestones. The deal adds NEOS's 19 income ETFs to Goldman Sachs Asset Management's existing $40 billion options-based ETF suite, creating the eighth-largest active ETF manager with $80 billion in active ETFs across a $130 billion global platform. Following the close, expected in the first quarter of 2027, NEOS co-founders Troy Cates and Garrett Paolella will join Goldman Sachs Asset Management as Partners along with the full NEOS team.
Bank of America agreed to acquire up to 49.9% of Jio Credit Limited, Jio Financial Services' NBFC lending subsidiary, through a preferential allotment of equity shares and warrants, forming a joint venture with equal board representation between the two companies. Jio Credit has grown to roughly $3.2 billion in assets under management within two years of operations, and the partnership pairs JFSL's digital reach and local market expertise with Bank of America's global financial services, risk management, and technology capabilities, while JCL's existing management continues to drive operations and the company remains consolidated within JFSL's financial reporting.
Funds managed by Blackstone and La Caisse, along with PSP Investments and BCI, are making a CDN$2.5 billion minority equity investment in Air Canada's Aeroplan loyalty program, acquiring a 25% non-controlling stake and valuing the program at CDN$10 billion. Air Canada retains 75% ownership and full operational control, and will use the proceeds to repay an upcoming US$1.2 billion bond maturity and fund accelerated share repurchases, including a planned issuer bid of up to CDN$800 million. The deal settles August 17, 2026, and gives investors a 6.5% net internal rate of return if Air Canada exercises its call option to repurchase the stake between years five and eight.
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Joby Aviation agreed to acquire Resonant Sciences, a Dayton-based defense technology company, for approximately $500 million, funded through $450 million in cash and $50 million in stock. Resonant, which generates more than $100 million in revenue at high-teens EBITDA margins, brings classified infrastructure and deep national security customer relationships, and will continue operating under its own name as Joby's dedicated defense business unit. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2027.
Clean Harbors agreed to acquire EnviroServe, a national environmental and waste management services provider, from an affiliate of One Rock Capital Partners for $470 million in cash. EnviroServe generates approximately $250 million in revenue and $27 million in Adjusted EBITDA through a network of 40 permitted locations across 48 states, and Clean Harbors expects roughly $25 million in cost synergies over two years, bringing the post-synergy multiple to about 9x EBITDA. The deal, expected to close in the second half of 2026, will be funded through available cash and additional debt financing.
Lovable raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion valuation, led by Menlo Ventures and co-led by the Scaleup Europe Fund managed by EQT, with new participation from Balderton Capital, Kaszek Ventures, Tencent, and Regent, alongside returning investors including Accel, CapitalG, HubSpot Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures. The round broadens Lovable's global investor base across Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the U.S. as the company builds its software creation platform aimed at letting people build and transform businesses without traditional coding barriers.
Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing acquired a newly developed 1.5 million-square-foot distribution facility in Kansas City from Hunt Midwest for $158.5 million, in an off-market deal facilitated by Newmark Zimmer. The Class A logistics facility, the largest distribution center in Kansas City by footprint, is net-leased long-term to Ace Hardware and sits within the 3,300-acre KCI 29 Logistics Park. The acquisition reflects MSREI's strategy of targeting mission-critical, net-leased industrial real estate backed by strong tenant credit.
CodeRabbit raised $143 million in Series C funding at a $1.5 billion valuation, co-led by Atomico and Smash Capital with participation from new investors including BMW i Ventures and Datadog alongside returning investors CRV and Scale Venture Partners. The round comes less than a year after CodeRabbit's $60 million Series B, following revenue growth of more than 5x year-over-year across its 17,000+ customers, and will fund international expansion into Europe and Asia alongside continued development of its newly announced Agentic Change Management platform. CodeRabbit also committed more than $10 million to keep its AI code review and agent capabilities free for open source projects over the next 12 months.
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