Ares Management Corporation (NYSE: ARES) on a definitive merger agreement with Whitestone REIT (NYSE: WSR) in which Ares Real Estate Funds will acquire all outstanding Whitestone common shares and operating partnership units for $19 per share or unit in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $1.7 billion.
Enlyte, a leader in technology, networks and services for the property and casualty industry, on its acquisition of PartsTrader, a leading parts procurement marketplace for auto insurers and collision repairers.
Avride, a developer of autonomous driving technologies, in its up to $375 million investment and commercial commitment from Uber Technologies (NYSE: UBER) and Nebius Group (Nasdaq: NBIS).
Trinity Hunt Partners in its investment in TNT Dental, a digital marketing agency for dental practices nationwide.
Blackstone Energy Transition Partners in the sale of Irth Solutions to TPG Growth.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners in its $9 billion acquisition of Colonial Enterprises, a world-class midstream asset portfolio comprised of the largest refined products system in the U.S., including the Colonial Pipeline.
Diamondback Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq: FANG) in its acquisition of certain subsidiaries of Double Eagle IV Midco, LLC in exchange for 6.9 million shares of Diamondback common stock and $3 billion cash.
Constellation Energy (Nasdaq: CEG) in its $26.6 billion acquisition of Calpine Corporation.
EQT Corporation:
- in its $8.8 billion midstream joint venture with Blackstone Credit & Insurance.
- in its sale and exchange with Equinor USA Onshore Properties Inc., of an undivided 40% interest in EQT’s non-operated natural gas assets in northeast Pennsylvania, in exchange for $500 million of cash and certain upstream and midstream oil and gas assets from Equinor.
Echo Investment Capital:
- in the sale of Echo Minerals’ remaining mineral and royalty interests in the Permian and Anadarko basins to an undisclosed buyer.
- in its sale of mineral and royalty interests in the Permian and Anadarko basins to Sixth Street Partners.
Acacia Research Corporation (Nasdaq: ACTG) and Benchmark Energy II, LLC in their acquisition of 140,000 net acres and approximately 470 operated producing wells in the prolific Western Anadarko Basin throughout the Texas Panhandle and Western Oklahoma.
