Sica Fletcher

MARCH 26, 2024

Valuation For a more in-depth examination of the valuation process, consult our previous article on the subject here. Once an agency owner completes their initial preparations, the next step is to complete a full valuation of the agency. Valuation is a process in and of itself. Learn more at , ,, SicaFletcher.com.

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Sica Fletcher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Changes in the Valuation Process Valuation is the first formal step in the M&A deal process, taking place once the seller has gathered all their preliminary documents and made any necessary changes to the company's internal structure to make it more profitable. Family-specific financial arrangements.

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Sica Fletcher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The following article details the process of selling an insurance agency book of business in 2024, including deviations from the process of selling an agency, the valuation process, and common payout structures. This means getting a formal valuation done - typically through your M&A advisor, but sometimes through a third party.

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Sica Fletcher

APRIL 2, 2024

Insurance M&A Deal Valuation, 2024 Starting out in 2024, EBITDA and revenue multiples are in a good place, experiencing modest YoY growth despite the economic downturn of the last 18 months. In deals with the highest earnout, business owners turn to a specialized M&A advisory firm to handle negotiations and oversee valuations.

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Sica Fletcher

MAY 15, 2024

essentially boils down to three major steps: Determine your insurance agency’s EBITDA Determine the standard valuation multiple for an agency of your size Multiply your EBITDA by the multiple to determine your expected payout (i.e., How Much Is My Insurance Agency Worth?” Learn more at SicaFletcher.com.

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Focus Investment Banking

MARCH 28, 2024

Some PPMs have gotten very large, with partnerships across a broad geographic area and valuations likely north of $1B. They are looking for the ideal partner with the best valuation and terms possible. For example, all affiliated practices are in the Southeastern US. There are many exceptions on either side of the normal curve.

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Sica Fletcher

JUNE 20, 2024

Conversely, when interest rates are high, valuations are supposed to decrease because buyers will try to make up what they are losing to interest. Ultimately, this paved the way for PE firms to take an increasingly larger share of the insurance M&A market starting about a decade ago. for insurance agencies. for insurance agencies.

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Sica Fletcher

JULY 23, 2024

This means that they often lack the specialized industry knowledge to effectively negotiate your deal. This is because company B had a higher initial valuation of the brokerage as well as an official valuation of the equity in their company. Are you meeting the firm’s principals? Still Uncertain?

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Sica Fletcher

JULY 31, 2024

With such a high level of competition, they face the double-edged sword of higher overall valuations vs. a relatively smaller initial payout as equity becomes an increasingly larger percentage of buyer offers. This has led to very high valuation multiples (~11.5x Learn more at SicaFletcher.com.

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Cooley M&A

MAY 5, 2020

In 2017, the Company began experiencing financial difficulty as it worked to update its flagship product, and in early 2018 it formed a special committee of its three independent directors to consider options for additional ways to raise capital. Noting iSubscribed’s initial offer of $3.50 per share, and the eventual merger price of $3.68

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Cooley M&A

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

A recap of 2017 trends and the Cooley outlook on this year’s dealmaking: Buying Innovation: Retention and Non-Competes. Approval of gross-ups in connection with a transaction typically involves a prior negotiation with the buyer. See ABA Private Target Mergers & Acquisitions Deal Point Study for 2016-2017.

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Cooley M&A

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Compensation matters, including retention packages, equity treatment and related disclosure, are always key negotiating points in M&A transactions. In other words, post-closing arrangements may be excluded from 280G analysis, but only if they were not significantly negotiated before closing.

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Cooley M&A

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In April 2017, Fresenius agreed to acquire Akorn, a US-based, Nasdaq-listed specialty manufacturer and marketer of generic prescription and over-the-counter pharmaceutical products, for $35 per share or approximately $4.75 The Merger Agreement.

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Cooley M&A

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Earn-outs can provide a helpful tool to bridge a valuation gap between parties and are a typical component (SRS: 64%) of acquisitions of development-stage life sciences companies where parties often share the risks and rewards of clinical and regulatory development through contingent milestone payments. 12147-VCS, August 9, 2017).

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InvestmentBank.com

OCTOBER 24, 2019

With larger physician networks and access to specialist’s hospitals also gain negotiating leverage with insurers and can participate in alternative payment models, such as capitated and bundled payments, through vertical integration. Christopher Majdi, Director of Valuation & FMV Services at Premier, Inc. 2017, September 6).

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Growth Business

MARCH 1, 2024

Capital is available, valuations have started to normalise and the debt markets are still supportive – albeit with greater scrutiny and higher costs. The data below from Statista shows the volume of UK private equity deals between 2017 and 2022. Those discussions were about social impact, strategy, the marketplace and the team.

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Cooley M&A

JULY 9, 2021

In a string of seminal decisions from 2017 through 2019 ( DFC Global , Dell and Aruba ), the Delaware Supreme Court re-shaped appraisal jurisprudence, in each case by overturning the Court of Chancery for failing to give adequate weight to deal price as the most reliable indicator of fair value. took private in 2017 for $315/share.

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Cooley M&A

JULY 10, 2017

However, where there are too many unaccredited investors, parties may be unwilling or unable to pay the present cash value of the future earn-outs to the unaccredited investors (which would require a valuation of the future earn-outs). See 2017 SRS/Acquiom M&A Deal Study. Disclosure. earn-out rights). Risk mitigation.

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Cooley M&A

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

We expect this trend to continue, with mid-market and smaller deals driving the deal count in 2017. Dealmakers appear much more optimistic in the first quarter of 2017 than at this same time last year, in part because of greater optimism about the IPO market and the potential for favorable corporate tax and other regulatory changes.

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