Merger Acquisition

Columbus, Ohio – October 13, 2026 -- Vertiv Holdings Co (NYSE: VRT) has agreed to acquire King Environmental Services Ltd. (KES), a Europe-based provider of fluid management, commissioning and load-testing services for high-density, liquid-cooled data centers, with closing expected in the fourth quarter of 2026.

Vertiv did not disclose financial terms. The company said the deal is not expected to be material to its financial results.

KES brings fluid management and load testing to Vertiv's EMEA services

The acquisition extends Vertiv's thermal management services into Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). KES is headquartered near Dublin, Ireland, and serves customers across the region.

Paris – October 13, 2026 -- Asterion Industrial Partners has entered an exclusive agreement on the contemplated acquisition of Fraikin, a pan-European commercial vehicle lessor with about €1 billion in revenue and a fleet gross book value of roughly €3 billion. The sellers are affiliates of Fraikin's ultimate majority shareholders: Benefit Street Partners, Värde Partners and Canyon Partners. The announcement does not state a purchase price.

Fraikin's multi-year transformation precedes the sale

Fraikin management says the business has completed a multi-year transformation that improved financial performance and resilience across its European markets. The group manages more than 50,000 vehicles across ten European countries. Its customers include healthcare, food distribution, utilities, waste management, logistics and public services.

Toronto – October 12, 2026 -- Highlander Silver Corp. (TSX: HSLV) has completed its plan of arrangement to acquire all shares of Bear Creek Mining Corporation (TSXV: BCM), issuing 36,225,457 of its own common shares and making Bear Creek a wholly owned subsidiary.

Highlander Silver pays 0.1175 of its shares for each Bear Creek share

Under the arrangement, completed under Division 5 of Part 9 of the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia), each Bear Creek share was exchanged for 0.1175 Highlander shares. Highlander acquired 308,302,938 Bear Creek shares in total. Immediately before closing it held 50,000,000 shares, or about 13.95% of the outstanding stock, and its stake now stands at 100%.

Cleveland – October 12, 2026 -- Peak Nanosystems has closed a $25mm investment from Squadron Capital to fund its acquisition of Cleveland-based PolymerPlus, giving the nanotechnology group entry into the capacitor market.

Peak Nanosystems is the parent company of Peak Nano Optics and Peak Nano Films. It will also use proceeds to expand in-house optical product development.

Acquisition secures exclusive nanolayered film IP from Case Western Reserve University

Through the deal, Peak Nanosystems gains exclusive rights to broad nanolayered film intellectual property developed at Case Western Reserve University. It also acquires in-house technology developed by PolymerPlus. The rights cover both optics and film capacitors.

Stockholm – October 12, 2026 -- Sandvik has completed its acquisition of Italy-based Diemme® Filtration, a business with estimated 2026 revenues of about SEK 1.1 billion and an EBITA margin accretive to the Rock Processing business area.

Sandvik creates a separate Filtration division within Rock Processing

Diemme® Filtration will be reported as a new, separate division named Filtration inside Sandvik's Rock Processing business area. The acquisition had been announced previously.

Diemme® Filtration employs about 200 people at its Lugo base

The company is headquartered in Lugo, Italy, where it operates a manufacturing facility and R&D capabilities. It has approximately 200 employees.

Houston – October 12, 2026 -- Bristow Group (NYSE: VTOL) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Berry Aviation from Acorn Capital Management for $105 million in cash, subject to customary purchase price adjustments, and plans to sell its Norway Offshore Energy Services business. The two moves would cut Bristow's offshore energy share of revenue to about 54% on a 2025 pro forma basis, from an actual 66%.

New York – October 08, 2026 -- Orca and Loopscale have merged into a single entity called Formation, combining trading, credit and vault infrastructure to finance AI, robotics and defense companies that fall outside traditional capital market structures.

Formation targets a $3 trillion AI infrastructure financing gap

Apollo estimates nearly $3 trillion will be needed for AI infrastructure alone through 2028, capital that many frontier companies struggle to access because fixed underwriting, legal, servicing and distribution costs favor large, standardized deals. Formation says it will cut the cost and complexity of structuring, distributing and financing these assets by unifying origination, vault strategies and distribution on top of the existing Orca and Loopscale protocols.

Los Angeles – October 06, 2026 -- American Hartford Gold (AHG), the nation's largest retailer of physical gold and silver, has acquired the assets of Rosland Capital, extending its reach to a broader base of U.S. clients seeking precious metals and Gold IRA services.

AHG expands scale after delivering more than $4 billion in precious metals

American Hartford Gold has delivered over $4 billion in gold and silver to tens of thousands of clients nationwide. The Rosland Capital acquisition adds to that footprint, with AHG citing expanded fulfillment capacity, new office locations, and specialist training to absorb the additional client base.

"Acquiring Rosland Capital's assets is a major step forward in our expansion and a clear expression of our confidence in the future of this industry," said Sanford Mann, CEO of American Hartford Gold. The company said it intends to keep setting the standard for client service in the sector.

Bloomington, Minn. – October 05, 2026 -- BGM, a Top 200 full-service accounting, tax, audit and advisory firm, has added Norwalk, Connecticut-based R. L. DePanfilis & Company, LLC, marking the firm's entry into Connecticut and extending its New England footprint.

R. L. DePanfilis joins BGM after more than four decades as an independent CPA firm

Founded in 1979, R. L. DePanfilis & Company serves businesses, individuals, estates and trusts with tax compliance, multistate and foreign tax filings, audits, compilations, financial reporting, business succession planning, due diligence, and estate and trust returns. The firm will now operate under the BGM name, with partners David W. Gibbs, CPA, and Kenneth T. Miller, CPA, continuing to lead the Norwalk office alongside their existing team.

Morristown, N.J. – October 01, 2026 -- Financial Executives International (FEI) has opened its Media Finance Section, folding in roughly 1,200 business and financial executives from the Media Financial Management Association (MFM) as the association's first industry-specific section.

MFM members approved the merger on July 15, 2026, after board endorsement from both organizations

MFM, founded in 1961 and serving executives across broadcast, cable, publishing, streaming and digital media, now operates fully inside FEI as the Media Finance Section, effective October 1, 2026.