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Cyber insurance startup Coalition acquires privacy assistant Jumbo

TechCrunch: M&A

In 2018, Jumbo raised a $3.5 Last year, Index Ventures also led a $17 million round in the company at a $77 million post-money valuation. In its most recent funding round , the company raised a $250 million Series F investment at a valuation of $5 billion. Coalition has raised hundreds of millions of dollars over the years.

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The Cooley Outlook for 2018 M&A

Cooley M&A

What’s on tap for 2018 M&A? One familiar technique used by sophisticated tech buyers is a holdback structure that subjects a portion of key employees’ merger consideration to revesting. See ABA Private Target Mergers & Acquisitions Deal Point Study for 2016-2017.

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Socure acquires identity verification startup Berbix for $70M

TechCrunch: M&A

billion valuation during the heady fundraising days of late 2021 (and $100 million earlier in 2021), today announced that it has acquired identity verification service Berbix for $70 million in cash and stock transactions. Founded in 2018, Berbix focuses on verifying users’ identities by checking scanned IDs in real time.

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Key Components and Trends of CVRs in Life Sciences Public M&A Deals

The Harvard Law School Forum

In recent months, the life sciences industry has seen the reemergence of contingent value rights, or CVRs, in public company acquisitions as a way to bridge a valuation gap between buyers and sellers. Executive Summary This study addresses CVRs, the public M&A analog to the earnout used in private deals, which can be price-driven (e.g.,

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MAEjor Ruling: Delaware Court of Chancery Finds Target Suffers Material Adverse Effect and Acquirer Could Back Out of Transaction

Cooley M&A

M&A practitioners have long advised boards of directors that the Delaware courts have never found that the events or circumstances in a particular transaction met the contractual standard of having a material adverse effect (or MAE) as defined in a merger or acquisition agreement. 2018-0300-JTL (Del. The Merger Agreement.

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Physician Practice Acquisitions: A Primer on Hospital & Private Equity Consolidation

InvestmentBank.com

For the better part of the last decade, physician practices have seen a wave of consolidation by hospitals and private equity with 2018 being no exception [1]. toped 5,000 from 2015 to 2016 alone [22] , with the total number of hospital owned physician practices increasing to 80,000 by 2018 [15]. of GDP or $2.5

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

Cooley M&A

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). Valuation Certainty. Competition / Variation. Another feature of SPAC 3.0 is the competition among SPACs for potential targets.

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