acquirer

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Or there’s Canada’s Constellation Software, a serial acquirer of niche software companies that made investors 300 times their money at its peak.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Enforcers sometimes investigate whether to block a merger because the acquirer is already too powerful in a given market.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

“The fact that SpaceX…is the acquirer here is symbolic of where the next multi‑trillion‑dollar technology opportunity lies,” he says.

From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026

Discussing the idea with tax experts and others, Walker realized he could maximize the payouts if they came from an acquirer, rather than his family, to avoid having the money taxed twice.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 2025

But his chief celebrity was as an acquirer of those of others, provided always that they were old enough or rare enough.

From The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting by Roberts, W. (William)