Rio Grande Valley M&A history: who bought the Valley.

What counts

Completed acquisitions and equity stake purchases of businesses, or of named operating locations, in Hidalgo, Cameron, Starr and Willacy counties, Texas, 1926 to 2026. All sectors. A deal is placed in the Valley town named in the public record.

The capital behind a deal is the private equity sponsor when the buyer was private equity backed at the time, and otherwise the buyer or its public parent. Arcs start at that capital's headquarters.

Sources

Every row links to at least one public source: buyer and seller press releases, SEC and FCC filings, Texas Department of Banking records, and local and trade press such as MyRGV, Texas Border Business, the Rio Grande Guardian and the RGV Business Journal. Nobody was contacted. Delta Brokers' private client, buyer, mandate and outreach files are never used.

What is excluded

• Pure real estate property sales, new openings and franchise development deals
• Project financings without an equity purchase
• National mergers where the Valley piece was not named
• Deals not shown to have closed (4 left out in this build)
• Deals with no identifiable Valley town (3 left out)

Known gaps

Most small private sales are never announced, so this is a floor, not a census. Records thin out sharply before the 1980s, so early decades are undercounted. Values are shown only when publicly disclosed (45 of 255). Locations for multi-site deals use the first named Valley town.

Cite and reuse

Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with credit. Delta Brokers, "Rio Grande Valley M&A History, 1926 to 2026," deltabrokers.org/rgv-ma-history (updated November 12, 2026). Data: CSV, JSON. Last updated November 12, 2026.