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Acadia Pharmaceuticals in its acquisition of Levo Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the treatment of Prader-Willi Syndrome.

GI Partners, a private equity-investment firm, in its simultaneous acquisition and combination of Cord Blood Registry, the world’s largest stem-cell collection and storage company, and California Cryobank, the world’s premier donor sperm and egg bank.

Moody''s in its acquisition of RMS, a leading global provider of climate and natural disaster risk modeling and analytics, for approximately $2 billion from Daily Mail and General Trust plc.

Banc of California in its acquisition of the e-commerce payments platform and technology of Global Payroll Gateway, Inc. and Deepstack Technologies for approximately $24 million.

Acorns in its acquisition of Harvest, a startup focused on consumer debt-reduction solutions.

Moody''s in its acquisition of PassFort, a U.K.-based workflow platform for identity verification, customer onboarding and risk analysis.

Moody''s in its acquisition of 360kompany, an Austria-based platform for audit-proof business verification and KYC operating a network of primary-source information on more than 115 million companies across 200 jurisdictions.

Mitek Systems in its acquisition of HooYu, a U.K.-based company specializing in KYC and related customer-onboarding technology, for $128 million.

AssetMark Financial Holdings in its acquisition of Adhesion Wealth, a leading provider of wealth-management technology solutions to registered-investment advisers (RIAs), RIA enterprises and asset managers.

Moody''s in its acquisition of Cortera, a provider of North American credit data and workflow solutions.

Vista Dental, a portfolio company of private equity firm Inverness Graham Investments, in its acquisition of Apex Dental Materials, a branded manufacturer of restorative dental materials including adhesives, primers, composites and cements.

Standard Homeopathic Company, maker of the Hyland''s brand of homeopathic products, in its acquisition of a private equity firm.

Moody''s in its acquisition of Catylist, a provider of commercial real estate solutions to brokers.

Endeavour Capital, in its sale of grocery chains Bristol Farms, Lazy Acres Market and Metropolitan Market, to e-Mart, South Korea''s largest retailer.

ForeFlight, a Boeing Company, in its acquisition of CloudAhoy, a provider of post-flight debriefing, analytics and flight operations quality assurance software products.

GE, in its acquisition of Innoveering, a company specializing in advanced hypersonic-propulsion technology.

Acorns, in its acquisition of GoHenry, a leading provider of financial applications and education for children and their families.