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New Relic’s sale tells us much about the value of middling growth today

TechCrunch: M&A

Shares of the company, which went public back in 2014, are up around 13.5% New Relic’s $87-per-share sale price gives it a valuation that’s less than seven times its current run-rate revenue. Monitoring service New Relic this morning said it has agreed to be acquired by Francisco Partners and TPG for $6.5

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DigitalOcean acquires cloud computing startup Paperspace for $111M in cash

TechCrunch: M&A

” Paperspace was co-founded in 2014 by Daniel Kobran and Dillon Erb, graduates of the University of Michigan. million, earnings per share, return on equity and net margin fell short of expectations. While the company’s revenue increased in Q1 2023, growing 29.7%

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Delaware Chancery Court Grants Appraisal Rights to Shareholders in DFC Global Corporation Following Acquisition by Private Equity Fund

Shearman & Sterling

per share, rather than the price ($9.50 per share) at which DFC was acquired by a private equity fund in June 2014. In re Appraisal of DFC Global Corp., 10107-CB (Del. July 8, 2016).

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Upgrade acquires travel-focused BNPL startup Uplift for a song

TechCrunch: M&A

Uplift had raised nearly $700 million in equity and debt, securing $123 million at a reported $195 million valuation in its Series C round alone. Uplift was founded in 2014 by Brian Barth, who previously sold his travel startup SideStep to Kayak for $200 million. billion to just $6.7

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Delaware Chancery Court Grants Appraisal Rights to Shareholders in DFC Global Corporation Following Acquisition by Private Equity Fund

Shearman & Sterling

per share, rather than the price ($9.50 per share) at which DFC was acquired by a private equity fund in June 2014. In re Appraisal of DFC Global Corp., 10107-CB (Del. July 8, 2016).

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Selling an Insurance Agency: Price vs. Equity

Sica Fletcher

Price, however, is not the only consideration - contemporary deals also include additional considerations, like equity and overall deal structure, to determine what a business owner will actually get from a completed M&A transaction. It’s common to see deals completed in which earnouts make up the lion's share of payments to sellers.

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Goldman Sachs on equities execution: Tacking with the wind

The TRADE

The players that now dominate in the EMEA equities space are typically larger and have roots that stretch across the Atlantic due to tricky market conditions that have made economies of scale and the ability to internalise risk increasingly essential. “If Goldman Sachs’ equities revenues globally had fallen from $3.24