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The Cooley Outlook for 2018 M&A

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What’s on tap for 2018 M&A? As an example, for California specific requirements, see our prior blog post Non-Competes for California Employees in M&A Deals: Don’t Fudge It. A recap of 2017 trends and the Cooley outlook on this year’s dealmaking: Buying Innovation: Retention and Non-Competes.

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Cyber insurance startup Coalition acquires privacy assistant Jumbo

TechCrunch: M&A

Jumbo didn’t rely on APIs to control your online accounts. When the app loaded the settings page of your online accounts, it could see if you had turned on two-factor authentication on your Google and Facebook accounts. In 2018, Jumbo raised a $3.5 A source told me this deal is a small, acqui-hire transaction.

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M&A security: Common mistakes that can sink your M&A (Part 1)

Quest: Mergers & Acquisitions

Poorly protected data during and after an M&A IT Integration will cost even bigger bucks with a few nasty headlines thrown on top! The GDPR makes it clear that organizations must be accountable for the personal data they hold. Mergers and Acquisitions require big bucks to make happen.

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Funding M&A Deals with Bitcoin

Deal Law Wire

As Bitcoin gains increasing traction since its inception 11 years ago, we begin to question whether it will slowly replace traditional dollar funding in M&A deals. Whether Bitcoin will be used to fund large M&A deals will likely depend on its ability to stabilize in value. Headways in the M&A Market.

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M&A security series: Lessons learned from Equifax and Marriott data breaches (Part 2)

Quest: Mergers & Acquisitions

As you recall from Part 1 of my mergers and acquisitions security series, I highlighted a few key security mistakes organizations make during an M&A IT integration. In Part 2, I will focus on two headline grabbing examples that expose the M&A IT integration security failures of major corporations. billion – BILLION!

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Transfer Traps: Considerations for Dual-Class Companies Contemplating M&A Transactions

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4] However, such exceptions were not universal and, as will be discussed below, the vast majority of dual-class charters adopted before 2016 that contained transfer restrictions did not include M&A voting agreement carve outs. In a small number of cases, a class of common stock is offered to the public that has no voting rights at all.

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Highlights from Cooley’s M&A Dealmakers Roundtable: SPACs!

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On September 24, Cooley M&A partner, Garth Osterman, moderated a webinar on the current trend in going public: SPACs! As reflected in Chart 1 , 102 SPAC IPOs have been announced this year as of September 18, 2020—almost double the number of SPAC IPOs in all of last year (and more than double the number of SPAC IPOs in 2018).

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