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Car battery maker Clarios International is planning to take on new debt to hand cash to owners including Brookfield and CDPQ. The company, whose batteries are found in one in three cars globally, is now valued at about $20B. With Dinesh Nair via Bloomberg: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Scoop from last night: SoftBank and chipmaker Arm $ARM are exploring a deal for Ampere Computing, the Oracle-backed semiconductor designer founded by former Intel exec Renee James. Liana B. Baker Ian King via Bloomberg Bloomberg Deals bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Constellation buying Calpine for $29.1B, including debt in first big M&A deal of 2025. Read it in Bloomberg News first. Gonna be a crazy fun year. Congrats to Ryan Gould Dinesh Nair & David Carnevali on the big win bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Scoop: SoftBank, the majority owner of Arm $ARM, is nearing a deal to acquire Ampere Computing in a transaction that could value the chip designer at about $6.5B. A deal could be announced in the coming weeks. With Liana B. Baker, Ian King via Bloomberg: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Busy day for $INTC headlines... Scoop: Buyout firm Silver Lake is in exclusive talks to acquire a majority stake in Intel's Altera unit. With Liana B. Baker, Dinesh Nair via Bloomberg Bloomberg Deals: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

*COREWEAVE IS SAID PLANNING TO CUT IPO SIZE TO ABOUT $1.5B CoreWeave is planning to cut the size of its IPO to around $1.5B, cutting valuation, in a sign of how recent stock market volatility is hurting demand for even highly-anticipated listings. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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New: AppLovin CEO Adam Foroughi, who last week put in a bid for all of TikTok outside of China, says President Trump "is quarterbacking one of the craziest – if not the craziest – deals of all time." $APP More in today's Bloomberg Deals newsletter: bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

BRAVO’S BETS: Orlando Bravo’s journey to becoming a king of software buyouts began on the hard courts of a Florida tennis academy. Now back in the Sunshine state, his firm Thoma Bravo has a new fund and is seeking big deals amid the market chaos. Bloomberg bloomberg.com/news/features/…

SCOOP: The US is weighing a potential easing of restrictions on Nvidia sales to the UAE, where President Donald Trump is slated to visit later this month -- > from Mackenzie Hawkins Ben Bartenstein & Ryan Gould w/ Marion Halftermeyer & annmarie hordern bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Technology

Scoop: Salesforce $CRM is back in talks to acquire Informatica $INFA. The pair had discussed a deal last year, but couldn't come to an agreement. With Liana B. Baker, Brody Ford via Bloomberg: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

New: Thoma Bravo said this morning it’s paying $2 billion to take restaurant software provider Olo private. Follows our story from early May that the company was exploring a sale. $OLO Bloomberg Bloomberg Deals bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Scoop: Autodesk $ADSK is weighing a takeover of rival PTC $PTC in what could be another large deal in the steadily consolidating industrial software patch. Bloomberg Bloomberg Deals bloomberg.com/news/articles/…