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

Cooley M&A

2019 was a banner year for billion-dollar life sciences M&A transactions. A wave of big-ticket transactions by global pharmaceutical companies drove life sciences M&A activity to its fourth-largest year on record in 2019, with aggregate deal value in the pharmaceutical, medical and biotech industry reaching $234.2

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TIF – LVMH … and JANA: A Brief Review of the Deal, Standstills, and Hostility in M&A

Transactional Delights

A couple of months prior to the November 2019 official announcement, the companies had been in the public spotlight starting with a short period when it was unclear to observers whether the deal would turn fully hostile [6]. On the subsequent Monday, October 28, TIF was trading at $129.72.

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Public SaaS Company Valuations and What They Mean for Private Companies

Software Equity Group

SEG’s 2023 Annual SaaS Report provides a comprehensive analysis of the public SaaS market’s performance and M&A activity in the software industry. This post will examine the current state of public SaaS company valuations and what it means for private companies. What is the SEG Index? from 2021 by the end of the year.

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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. Adjustments to Deal Price for Changes to Value Between Signing and Closing. To determine the fair value of Regal’s common stock at the effective time of the merger, the court reduced the deal price by $3.77/share,