Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 18, 2024

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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Focus Investment Banking

JUNE 13, 2023

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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Software Equity Group

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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 M&A

JANUARY 22, 2020

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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Cooley M&A

OCTOBER 29, 2020

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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Cooley M&A

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

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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Deal Law Wire

APRIL 1, 2021

In 2018, prior to the impact of the global pandemic, there were 189 M&A deals involving cryptocurrency companies within the 25 most active cryptocurrency jurisdictions, worth approximately US$1.9 As of February 11, 2021, the OSC gave the green light for the first publicly traded bitcoin exchange-traded funds in North America.

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