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RIA deal volume falls 17% in Q3 as $5B-plus sellers set record

DeVoe & Company's Q3 2026 Deal Book says LPL Financial has bought more than 75 practices since 2021.

At a glance

  1. The Deal Book also describes LPL and broker-dealer rivals pushing deeper into RIA M&A.
  2. The week's Form D filings included two new vehicles with no sales to report.
  3. Three Duke Capital Partners series — 2609A, 2609B and 2609C, each a series of V360 Holdings LLC — reported $321,000, $1.1 million and $530,000 sold, about $1.95 million in total.

Third-quarter RIA deal volume fell 17% from a year earlier, according to DeVoe & Company's Q3 2026 Deal Book, while sellers with more than $5 billion in assets already set a full-year record.

LPL Financial has bought more than 75 practices since 2021, the Deal Book says. That works out to about 15 practices a year if the deals were spread evenly. The Deal Book also describes LPL and broker-dealer rivals pushing deeper into RIA M&A.

Filed, not yet sold

The week's Form D filings included two new vehicles with no sales to report. Coatue filed for CT 181 LP, a private equity fund, with an undisclosed offering amount and no sales reported as of the Oct. 20 filing. Eclipse SPV XXXVII, L.P., a venture capital fund, filed the same day for a $10 million offering with nothing sold.

Three Duke Capital Partners series — 2609A, 2609B and 2609C, each a series of V360 Holdings LLC — reported $321,000, $1.1 million and $530,000 sold, about $1.95 million in total. Dream SPV Micro1 2 LLC, an other investment fund, reported $7.5 million sold against an undisclosed offering amount, with a first sale on Oct. 9.

Dollars sold so far by the week's Form D filers

Two vehicles filed with nothing sold; one SPV accounts for most of the money raised

  • Dream SPV Micro1 2$7.5M
  • Duke Capital Partners 2609B$1.1M
  • Duke Capital Partners 2609C$530K
  • Duke Capital Partners 2609A$321K
  • Eclipse SPV XXXVII$0
  • Coatue CT 181$0
Source: SEC Form D filings · Oct. 20, 2026
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ItemValue ($)
Dream SPV Micro1 2$7.5M
Duke Capital Partners 2609B$1.1M
Duke Capital Partners 2609C$530K
Duke Capital Partners 2609A$321K
Eclipse SPV XXXVII$0
Coatue CT 181$0

Reported by the Deals & PE desk from DeVoe & Company Q3 2026 Deal Book, as reported by Private Wealth Daily, SEC EDGAR Form D filings and SEC EDGAR Form D filings. Published . Corrections

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