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Representation and Warranty Insurance for M&A Deals: Cooling Market and Emerging Trends

Cooley M&A

The American Bar Association’s Private Target Mergers & Acquisitions Deal Points Study estimates that 55% of private transactions used R&W insurance in 2023, a fall from the record 65% set in 2021. In current market conditions, underwriters increasingly are offering initial retention below 1% and as low as 0.5%

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How Merchant Banks Help Businesses Grow and Succeed

Razorpay

They may help with underwriting, fundraising, credit or financial advice. Underwriting Services Merchant banks also provide underwriting services for initial public offerings (IPOs), private placements, follow-on public offerings (FPOs) and rights issues. What is a Merchant Bank?

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How the Growth of Private Credit is Impacting Private Equity

OfficeHours

Following the GFC, the government enacted new regulations that limited banks’ abilities to underwrite highly leveraged financing. For example, banks suffered from numerous hung deals in the 2021-2022 timeframe (Citrix, Twitter, and many others), which limited the flexibility banks had to underwrite new financings.

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Transforming Adversity into Opportunity: The Need for New Technologies Fuels Insurance M&A

Deal Law Wire

While insurance companies have struggled throughout the pandemic, with share prices collapsing due to a rise in insolvencies, new technologies have the potential to transform the industry, driving a flurry of M&A activity in early 2021. The Technology Imperative. Insurtech has the added benefit of generating cost-saving efficiencies.

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Covid-19 Impact on US Private Capital Raising Activity in 2020

InvestmentBank.com

Debt Markets Prior to COVID-19, some analysts and debt underwriters encouraged debt issuers to exercise caution after the tenth straight year of economic expansion [1]. Though to a significantly lesser degree than in the early months of COVID, look into the rest of 2021 and beyond features continued uncertainty in the debt market.

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Tech unicorns UK – complete guide to the billion-dollar club

Growth Business

There were a record-breaking 85 new tech unicorns created in Europe in 2021, and the UK is at the epicentre with 44. Now, the company boasts 18 million users, offering bank accounts, overseas transfers, crypto exchange and features like early salary payments – supporting over 30 in-app currencies. How many unicorns are there in the UK?

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ESG Litigation: Derivative Claims Against Directors: Q&A

Cleary M&A and Corporate Governance Watch

In May 2021, the District Court of The Hague ordered the group to reduce the group’s worldwide GHG emissions by 45% by 2030, in line with the Paris Agreement. For example, the proposed European Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) aims to create an EU-wide corporate accountability regime for companies’ negative ESG impacts.