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Cooley’s 2020 Tech M&A Year in Review

Cooley M&A

While we continue to absorb and understand the worldwide pandemic shockwaves of 2020, trying to encapsulate the vicissitudes of the past year in an annual recap is daunting. 1] The robust momentum in the second half of the year nearly made up for early pandemic effects as 2020 deal value was down only 6.6% A Tale of Two Years.

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Hopin, the struggling virtual conference unicorn, sells events and engagement units to RingCentral

TechCrunch: M&A

An article in the FT from April 2022 noted that its “explore” tab, for discovering virtual confabs that one might want to attend, listed fewer than 500 events, down from more than 15,000 in November 2020.

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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. While the company generated over $260 million in revenues through the first three quarters of 2023, its stock price is trading under a dollar a share, as the company is burdened with substantial debt.

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The Rise of Hedge Funds: Exploring Their Impact on Financial Markets

OfficeHours

Hedge funds are significant players in financial markets given the size of their capital bases and the frequency of their trading. as of the end of 2020, hedge funds managed approximately $3.6 One widely cited estimate is that hedge funds account for around 5-6% of total equity trading volume in the US.

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SaaS M&A Snapshot: Target Market & Buyers

Software Equity Group

The SEG Index, a collection of 116 public SaaS companies, fell by 48.2%. After the unprecedented market highs of 2020 into 2021, it’s natural for founders in this environment to wonder if they’ve missed the boat. was only a slight decline from 2020’s 5.7x After the market exuberance of 2020 and 2021, peaking at 8.0x

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Lower 2021 thresholds announced for merger reviews under Competition Act and Investment Canada Act

Deal Law Wire

Thresholds under both statutes decreased slightly, meaning more transactions may be reviewable or notifiable, respectively, than in 2020. Not publicly traded entity (acquisition of shares): Total acquisition value, plus total liabilities (excluding operating liabilities), minus cash and cash equivalents. Competition Act.

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08-20-2023 Newsletter: Sunday Reading

OfficeHours

Private equity involves investing capital directly into private businesses that are not publicly traded on stock exchanges (that would be a hedge fund). To know if the buyside is right for you, let’s start with a textbook understanding of “What is private equity?”