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Rogers and Shaw extended the deal deadline as the minister takes his time.?

Marqeta to acquire Power Finance for $275m.?

ARCH Ventures and General Catalyst led a $203m Series A round in Paradigm. (Financial Sponsors)

Adani's $2.5bn share sale faces crucial day after the rout.

Tritium Partners secures $684m for a third growth-focused private equity fund. (FS)

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Rogers and Shaw extended the deal deadline as the minister takes his time.

Rogers Communications and Shaw Communications pushed back the deadline to close their merger again to February 17, 2023, after a Canadian government minister said he needs more time to decide if he will approve the deal,?Bloomberg?reported.

The $15.5bn deal, announced nearly two years ago, had an original deadline of last June, which then was moved to January 31. The Federal Court of Appeal rejected arguments by Canada's antitrust watchdog to block it, ending a monthslong legal battle.

Shaw is advised by CIBC Capital Markets , TD Securities , Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP (led by? Grant Zawalsky ), Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP (led by? Brett Seifred ?and? Vince Mercier ), Dentons (led by? Bill Gilliland, LLB, ICD.D ?and? Bill Jenkins ) and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (led by? Mark Stagliano ?and? Adam Emmerich ). Financial advisors are advised by Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP . Rogers is advised by 美国银行 , Barclays , Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP (led by? Joe Zavaglia ,? Michael S. Goldman ,? Andrew Elken ,?and?Erik Tavzel), Goodmans LLP (led by? Dale H. Lastman, C.M., O.Ont. ), and Torys LLP (led by? Richard Willoughby ). Financial advisors are advised by Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP , Latham & Watkins , and McCarthy Tétrault (led by? Richard Higa ).

Marqeta to acquire Power Finance for $275m.

Marqeta , a global modern card issuing platform, agreed to acquire Power Finance, a financial services company, for $275m.

"Companies like ours were made possible because of the path Marqeta blazed in modern card issuing, demonstrating the possibilities in payments with flexible and modern payment infrastructure. At Power, we built a full-stack, cloud-native credit card issuance platform, and by becoming a part of Marqeta, we have the ability now to bring this innovation to a much larger market at global scale," Randy Fernando, Power Finance Co-Founder and CEO.

ARCH Ventures and General Catalyst led a $203m Series A round in Paradigm. (FS)

ARCH Venture Partners , a venture capital firm, and General Catalyst , an investment company, led a $203m Series A round in Paradigm, a healthcare technology company, with participation from F-Prime , GV (Google Ventures) , Lux Capital , Mubadala Capital , Magnetic Ventures , and BrightEdge .

"The clinical research and drug development process is failing the very people it's meant to serve. Patients who might be best served with participation in a clinical trial often can't get access or aren't offered access to trials, research departments are chronically overburdened with significant barriers to entry created by trial complexity, and as a result sponsors' study timelines continue to lengthen at higher cost. The system is broken, and the human cost of inaction is unacceptable. Paradigm is reimagining the entire drug development paradigm by upending the status quo and focusing on equitable access to clinical research at scale from the start," Kent Thoelke, Paradigm CEO.

Adani's $2.5bn share sale faces crucial day after the rout.

Gautam Adani faces a critical day on Monday with his flagship company's $2.5bn share sale's second day of bidding overshadowed by a $48bn rout in the Indian billionaire's stocks sparked by a US short seller's report.

Seven listed companies belonging to the Adani Group conglomerate, Asia's richest man leads, saw sharp falls in their values after the Hindenburg Research report flagged concerns about high debt levels and the use of tax havens,?Reuters?reported.

Tritium Partners secures $684m for a third growth-focused private equity fund. (FS)

Tritium Partners , a private equity firm investing in growth companies in the lower middle market, announced it held a final closing on its third fund, Tritium III, with $684m of committed capital. The fund exceeds its target and represents a nearly 50% increase over Tritium's 2019 second fund.

"We are extremely excited to have received such strong support from current Tritium investors and are proud of the new investors we have added. Tritium's limited partners share our belief that growth-focused investing in the lower middle market offers opportunities for those willing to do the hard work required to scale businesses with great potential," Philip Siegel, Tritium Managing Partner and Co-Founder.

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