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SoftBank in connection with its proposed $6.5 billion acquisition of Ampere Computing, an American fabless semiconductor company developing processors for large-scale compute environments.
SoftBank, in connection with multiple investments in OpenAI, America’s premier artificial intelligence (AI) company and developer of the transformational large language models that are driving the AI revolution, including its proposed up to $40 billion investment in OpenAI.
SoftBank on The Stargate Project, including the formation of a new joint venture between SoftBank and OpenAI as lead partners, to invest billions of dollars in new AI infrastructure in the United States.
SoftBank in connection with its investment in Tempus AI and the establishment of a Japan joint venture, SB TEMPUS Corp. with Tempus AI, Inc., to expand Tempus’s leading AI solutions for medical applications to Japan and Southeast Asia.
Arm Holdings plc in its $5.2 billion initial public offering and listing on Nasdaq, the largest global IPO of 2023.
SoftBank in its $280 million Series E investment in Mapbox, an AI-powered location services platform fueling navigation technology used by Toyota, General Motors and BMW.
The board of Toshiba Corporation in its $15 billion take-private, the largest take-private transaction in Japanese history.
SoftBank in its sale of 90.01% stake in Fortress, a global investment manager with over $45 billion in assets under management, to Mubadala.
SoftBank in its $375 million acquisition of Berkshire Grey, Inc. (Nasdaq: BGRY), a robotic automation company, as well as interim financing through the completion of the merger.
SoftBank, Sprint’s controlling shareholder, on the landmark merger of Sprint and T-Mobile US, Inc., with a total implied enterprise value for Sprint of $59 billion and an aggregate implied enterprise value for the combined company of $146 billion.