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Will There Be an IPO for a Specialty Consulting Company in 2024?

Focus Investment Banking

The S&P 500 has recently traded near 4800, close to its record at the end of 2021. In that environment, very few firms sought IPOs, and there was a major slowdown in overall exits, whether private or public. It would be interesting to see if one of these PE firms decides to launch an IPO in 2024. As 2024 starts, the U.S.

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Upgrade acquires travel-focused BNPL startup Uplift for a song

TechCrunch: M&A

Uplift had raised nearly $700 million in equity and debt, securing $123 million at a reported $195 million valuation in its Series C round alone. ” Laplanche is referring to the BNPL-style product that Upgrade launched in October 2021, which lets users pay down their debt over six to 36 months with a fixed interest rate.

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Behind the Buyouts: Solomon’s Leonhardt on Consumer M&A Resurgence

The Deal

Inflation, supply chain disruptions and the rising cost of debt stopped consumer companies in their tracks last year. Direct-to-consumer businesses, darlings of the investor community in 2021, saw their techlike valuations plummet. Public markets, however, have been tepid, with the much-awaited IPO of L Catterton Management Ltd.

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How Merchant Banks Help Businesses Grow and Succeed

Razorpay

Underwriting Services Merchant banks also provide underwriting services for initial public offerings (IPOs), private placements, follow-on public offerings (FPOs) and rights issues. This was one of the largest debt restructuring deals in India and helped Piramal Enterprises to become a major player in the Indian financial services sector.

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Growth Equity Interview Questions: Full List, Answers, and Differences vs. Venture Capital and Private Equity

Mergers and Inquisitions

Growth Equity Interview Questions: Markets & Investments These questions could span a huge range because they could ask you about anything from the current fundraising environment to the IPO and M&A markets to specific markets their portfolio companies operate in. Q: Pitch me a growth company that we should invest in.

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Cooley’s 2022 Life Sciences M&A Year in Review

Cooley M&A

Although 2022 saw a general decline in M&A activity in the life sciences industry compared to 2021’s frenetic pace (when deal volume was up 52% from 2020 ), life sciences deal flow in 2022 on balance remained strong despite the headwinds. Let’s dig in.

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Growth Equity: The Child Prodigy of Private Equity and Venture Capital, or an Artifact of Easy Money?

Mergers and Inquisitions

Others would counter that growth equity’s rapid ascent was mostly due to the easy money that persisted between 2008 and 2021. This style is about purchasing minority stakes in cash-flow-negative-but-high-growth companies that want to scale and eventually go public or sell (think: Uber or Airbnb before their IPOs).