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On September 3, 2026, the Benetton family, through its Edizione holding company chaired by Alessandro Benetton, officially launched 21 Next, a new European alternative asset management platform focused on private markets, with approximately 3 billion euros in assets under management. (…)
On September 2, 2026, Alexandre Birman (Arezzo&Co founding family) and Roberto Jatahy (Grupo SOMA founding family) formally agreed the partial spin-off of Azzas 2154, the Brazilian fashion holding formed by the 2024 merger of Arezzo&Co and Grupo SOMA. Under the (…)
On September 3-4, 2026, the Gold family (heirs of the late David Gold) agreed to sell their shareholding in Premier League football club West Ham United to Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky, making him the largest shareholder of the club. The (…)
On September 7, 2026, Torbjorn Tornqvist, co-founder and Chairman of Gunvor Group, one of the world’s largest independent commodity trading houses, announced the sale of his entire stake in the company to a management-led buyout led by Chief Executive Officer (…)
On September 1, 2026, Ashok Soota, the 83 year old founder of Happiest Minds Technologies, agreed to sell 22.1 percent of the Bengaluru based digital engineering firm to ITC Infotech, the information technology arm of Indian conglomerate ITC Ltd. The (…)
On August 31, 2026, GRT Jewellers, a Chennai based family jewellery chain, signed a share purchase agreement to acquire up to 74.12 percent of Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri Ltd (TBZ) from the Zaveri promoter family. The value of the block sale (…)
On September 1, 2026, the Moreno family, led by Arte Moreno, agreed to sell a controlling stake in the Major League Baseball franchise Los Angeles Angels to Stan Kroenke’s Kroenke Sports and Entertainment (KSE). The transaction values the franchise at (…)
On September 3, 2026, Italy’s securities regulator CONSOB approved the tender offer prospectus filed by Tata Motors of India for Iveco Group NV, and the tender period formally opened on September 7, 2026. The offer, at 14.10 euros per share (…)
On September 3, 2026, the Khosla family closed its 9.6 billion dollar acquisition of the Seattle Seahawks, the current Super Bowl champion National Football League franchise. Carlyle, Sixth Street and Dynasty Equity completed their minority investments in support of the (…)
On September 3, 2026, Nvidia Corp. agreed to acquire Hugging Face, the New York and Paris based open source artificial intelligence platform, in a transaction valued at approximately 12.9 billion dollars. Hugging Face was co-founded a decade ago by three (…)
