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Will There Be an IPO for a Specialty Consulting Company in 2024?

Focus Investment Banking

There are only a few publicly traded companies in specialty consulting. But those companies have been public for more than 20 years. So, is a public offering even a consideration for some of the large, privately held consulting companies? FTI Consulting and CRA International (Charles River Associates) initially come to mind.

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Private Equity’s Increasing Consolidation of Oncology Practices 

Focus Investment Banking

The company itself was formed in 2018 by another PE firm, General Atlantic, which is selling out of its position in the new deal. As we’ve seen in other healthcare verticals, PE interest is driven by the opportunity to provide growth capital, contribute management expertise, and consolidate a fragmented industry to increase efficiency.

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Public SaaS Company Valuations and What They Mean for Private Companies

Software Equity Group

Stock prices and valuations of many leading public SaaS companies have fallen drastically from the beginning of 2022—but while that will affect the private market, it does not necessarily spell doom and gloom. This post will examine the current state of public SaaS company valuations and what it means for private companies.

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Cooley’s 2019 Life Sciences M&A Year in Review

Cooley M&A

billion – almost double the value of deals announced in that same sector in 2018, despite the number of deals decreasing from 705 in 2018 to 519 in 2019. Other notable deals that passed the $1 billion mark in 2019 included Vitrolife’s acquisition of Parallabs for £1.9 billion; and Synthorx’s sale to Sanofi $2.5

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

Cooley M&A

The rise of founder-led, venture capital-backed companies in recent years has coincided with a surge of companies implementing dual-class share structures in connection with their initial public offerings. Voting agreements in public M&A transactions. Potential carve outs for M&A voting agreements. Contributors.

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

Cooley M&A

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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Keeping Up with Delaware Appraisal Jurisprudence Since Aruba: Deal Price Reigns Supreme, But Will Recent Decision Lead to More Arbitrage?

Cooley M&A

The Regal appraisal proceeding arose from Cineworld’s acquisition of Regal Entertainment Group in February 2018. Panera Bread was a publicly traded company that JAB Holdings B.V. Adjustments to Deal Price for Changes to Value Between Signing and Closing. took private in 2017 for $315/share.