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Contingent Value Rights: Key Components & Trends

Deal Lawyers

Contingent Value Rights, or CVRs, are the public company analog of an earnout, and like earnouts are a tool for bridging valuation gaps between buyers and sellers.

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Insurance Agency Valuation 101: Understanding the Essentials

Sica Fletcher

As one of the most active M&A firms in the insurance sector, we are frequently asked how insurance agency valuations work. This article discusses the fundamentals of insurance agency valuations, plus a few lesser-known factors that play into these processes before we give an overview of the insurance M&A market in 2024.

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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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Public SaaS Company Valuations and What They Mean for Private Companies

Software Equity Group

Our report provides context for private companies to better understand factors influencing their valuations and evaluate how they can position themselves within a changing marketplace. This post will examine the current state of public SaaS company valuations and what it means for private companies. What is the SEG Index?

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The Cooley Outlook for 2018 M&A

Cooley M&A

What’s on tap for 2018 M&A? A recap of 2017 trends and the Cooley outlook on this year’s dealmaking: Buying Innovation: Retention and Non-Competes. For both old-line companies and tech giants, innovation is the name of the game. Use of Earn-Outs in Life Sciences Deals.

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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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Go1 snaps up speed reading app Blinkist to expand in enterprise learning

TechCrunch: M&A

After raising $100 million at a valuation of over $2 billion last year, the Australian ed-tech startup Go1 is making an acquisition and getting some investment to expand its reach and technology to serve the market of corporate online learning. Blinkist’s last valuation was $160 million in 2018 , when it raised $18.8