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        <title><![CDATA[Matthew Monks - Reporter & Editor]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why the M&A Animal Spirits Are Strong at Milken Conference]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Risk emerges as driver rather than deterrent for deals.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle F Davis]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 19:21:27 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>The Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, California, US, on Friday, April 25, 2025. Los Angeles, long a symbol of California glamour and economic might, is now feeling the brunt of some of America’s biggest crises: climate change, housing shortages, fiscal uncertainty, political divisions. Photographer: Eric Thayer/Bloomberg</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ex-Jefferies Banker Has Big M&A Plans at Truist]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Matthew Miller joined Truist earlier this year to build up its advisory business.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 16:25:11 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[US Apartment Giants AvalonBay, Equity Residential Explore $50 Billion Combination]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Potential mega REIT tie-up raises plenty of antitrust and political questions.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:13:11 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>The AvalonBay Communities Inc. Park Loggia condominium, center, is reflected in a building in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, May 15, 2019. AvalonBay Communities real estate investment trust acquired the site for the Park Loggia for $300 million, near the peak of Manhattan&apos;s high-end sales frenzy, with plans for luxury rentals and, perhaps, some condos. Since then, the borough has become saturated with both and AvalonBay decided the more-lucrative option was to go all-condo. Photographer: Mark Abramson/Bloomberg</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Jana Pushes Markel to Divest Ventures, Buy Back $2 Billion Shares]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[RBC Hires Industrials Bankers Gandhi, Choi in Advisory Push]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:40:22 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>People enter and exit from the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) headquarters in the financial district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Thursday, July 25, 2019. Canadian stocks fell as tech heavyweight Shopify Inc. weighed on the benchmark and investors continued to flee pot companies.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Goldman Names Fintech Banker Gido Co-Chair of Financials Group]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:16:43 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Investment Firm 2717 Offers C$10.50 a Share for Edtech D2L]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Geopolitics, Volatility Opening Some M&A Doors While Closing Others]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Where dealmakers and advisers are seeing  opportunity in volatile times]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:45:25 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Boomers’ Retirement Money Lures PE to Buy Up the Advisers Who Manage It]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Baby boomers are expected to transfer as much as $124 trillion to their heirs in the coming decades.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:03:07 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A Goldman Sachs Group Inc. logo hangs on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, May 19, 2010. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. racked up trading profits for itself every day last quarter. Clients who followed the firm&apos;s investment advice fared far worse. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[M&A Tally Hits $1.3 Trillion as Unilever Joins Megadeals Parade]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-31/m-a-tally-hits-1-3-trillion-as-unilever-joins-megadeals-parade</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle F Davis]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:34:45 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Citi Eyes Regional Bank Deal as Fraser Turns to Next Chapter]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Todd Gillespie]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:58:34 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Jane Fraser Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[BofA Starts Private Capital M&A Team to Focus on PE Exits]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Goldman M&A Head Sees ‘Massive’ Capital Pools Driving M&A]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:54:16 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[AlphaSense Said to Seek Hundreds of Millions in Fresh Funding]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:47:58 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Goldman M&A Head Says Buyers Are Keeping ‘Eyes on the Sunset’]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:58:34 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Wells Fargo Is Said to Hire UBS’s Keller to Lead M&A Structuring]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:57:40 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Warburg Eyes $2.5 Billion-Plus Sale of Auto Lender Exeter]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:25:06 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Irenic Hires Apollo’s Wang in Private Equity Push for Hedge Fund]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Liana Baker]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:01:14 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dealmakers See Iran War Stymieing M&A With Delays, Diligence]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Monks]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:00:29 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Victory CEO Says All Options on Table in Janus Pursuit]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:33:27 GMT</pubDate>
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