The New York Times: Banking

JUNE 5, 2023

The 2021 “short squeeze” of GameStop was a rare victory for the little guy. This documentary explains why the house — Wall Street wealth, that is — almost always wins.

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Cooley M&A

APRIL 27, 2021

Cooley, DFIN, PwC, Nasdaq and The Blueshirt Group took part in a two-part webinar series Behind the Scenes of the 2021 IPO & SPAC Boom on May 4 & 11, 2021. Session One – Tuesday, May 4, 2021, 9:00 – 10:30 am PT. Session Two – Tuesday, May 11, 2021, 9:00 – 10:30 am PT. Learn more here.

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TechCrunch: M&A

JUNE 13, 2023

The app attracted more than $14 million in funding from investors like Spark Capital, O’Reilly Alphatech Ventures , Shasta Ventures , Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley, and Randi Zuckerberg. The app’s appeal was showing “today in your history” kind of posts to remind you of what happened on this day a few years ago.

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Deal Lawyers

JUNE 15, 2023

In the most high-profile proxy contest of 2021, Engine No. It seemed like a major shake-up at the time, to say the least, with some predicting that the activist’s success would embolden other investors to launch similar E&S-related director election contests in the future. In a […]

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JD Supra: Mergers

MAY 31, 2023

Impact investing is taking off in Europe in a big way as investors increasingly factor the environmental and societal impacts of their capital into allocation strategies. billion in 2022, more than quadrupling the 2021 total, according to Unquote. This shift has been so significant that Europe-focused impact funds raised €8.5

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TechCrunch: M&A

AUGUST 18, 2023

In the years that followed, Boxed reportedly rejected a $400 million buyout offer from grocer Kroger in 2018, then later partnered with one of Asia’s largest retailers (Aeon) in 2021 for an expansion. At the time, Boxed had more than 7 million registered users and reported it was close to profitability.

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Global Banking & Finance

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Activist investors eye food, consumer goods firms LONDON (Reuters) – In early 2021, investment management firm Artisan Partners sent an open letter to an incoming member of Danone’s board, saying it had built a stake of more than 3% in the French food giant. Ripe for change?

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TechCrunch: M&A

JUNE 26, 2023

Angel investors include Plaid CEO and co-founder Zach Perret, Elad Gil, Naval Ravikant, Opendoor’s Eric Wu, Prasanna Sankaranarayanan, Ramp co-founders Eric Glyman and Karim Atiyeh and Jack Altman, among others. One salesperson is joining the Ramp team as well (Wang left Cohere in 2021). Financial terms were not disclosed.

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TechCrunch: M&A

AUGUST 2, 2023

That led Hopin to raise more than $1 billion in venture funding from big-name investors that included Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, LinkedIn, Coatue, Salesforce, Tiger and many more. Coming off of a huge couple of years of business during the pandemic, in 2021, it was valued at nearly $7.7

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TechCrunch: M&A

JULY 6, 2023

Prior to the acquisition, Paperspace raised $35 million from investors including Battery Ventures, Intel Capital, SineWave Ventures and Sorenson Capital. But as AI entered the mainstream, Paperspace leaned hard into its AI offerings, launching a suite of tools designed for developing, training, deploying and hosting AI models in the cloud.

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Quest: Mergers & Acquisitions

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Thanks for sticking with me as I dive into the details of my eight predictions for 2021 ! Specifically, I predict that increased M&A activity in 2021 will make it painfully clear just how hard a tenant-to-tenant migration really is. The outlook for M&A activity for 2021 is quite promising. presidential election.

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The TRADE

MARCH 26, 2024

Leveraged loan trading revenue topped $900 million in 2023, up 16% from 2021 and 29% from 2022, a new report from Coalition Greenwich has found. The data also suggests a potential shift toward a more transactional and performance-driven approach, with investors placing greater emphasis on demonstrable value from their dealer counterparties.

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TechCrunch: M&A

JUNE 27, 2023

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. Socure , the identity verification service that raised a massive $450 million Series E round at a $4.5

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Deal Law Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The threshold for certain pre-closing net benefit reviews under the Investment Canada Act (ICA) and the threshold for a pre-closing merger notification under the Competition Act have now both been released for 2021. It is adjusted annually, and for 2021 the threshold is C$415 million, down from C$428 million in 2020.

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Growth Business

OCTOBER 30, 2023

By Dom Walbanke on Growth Business - Your gateway to entrepreneurial success Northern Gritstone, an investor focused on university spinouts and IP-rich businesses in the North of England, has closed £312m from investors. Today’s announcement is a vote of confidence in both the region and our Profit with Purpose philosophy.

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TechCrunch: M&A

JULY 27, 2023

In a conversation with TechCrunch, Renaud Laplanche, Upgrade’s CEO and a co-founder, said that Uplift initially reached out in May to inquire whether Upgrade would be interested in participating in Uplift’s Series D financing as a strategic investor. Changing consumer spending habits likely played a role in scaring investors away.

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Growth Business

JUNE 1, 2023

By Brooks Newmark on Growth Business - Your gateway to entrepreneurial success The success of Dragons’ Den has long thrust angel investors into the spotlight, but away from the heat and drama of the den, angel investment is a crucial component of the UK start-up ecosystem. Some investors focus on one sector. I am sector agnostic.

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Growth Business

JULY 14, 2023

The tech sector was the UK’s best performer, raising £13bn – a 15 per cent increase on 2021’s £11.2bn. Although 2022’s figure was down on 2021’s record-breaking year, which saw £36.1bn invested, it was up on pre-pandemic years. Most of this capital was directed into the IT and Biotech sectors in the area.

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Business Standard - FInance

JUNE 12, 2023

Moody's Investors Service has a 'Baa3' sovereign credit rating on India, with a stable outlook. per cent of GDP in 2021-22 fiscal. The Finance Ministry officials will showcase India's strong economic fundamentals and pitch for a sovereign rating upgrade in a meeting with US-based Moody's on June 16. per cent of GDP.

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Shearman & Sterling

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Travis Laster of the Delaware Court of Chancery denied a motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction claims of tortious interference asserted against a principal of a private equity fund (the "Fund"), which had been the majority investor of a limited liability company (the "LLC"). 2021-0518-JTL (Del.

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Growth Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Cambridge Innovation Capital is the UK’s biggest investor in university spinouts. billion and 2021 raised £2.7 However, levels of foreign investment into UK spinouts during 2022/23 reached a new peak, with over 10 per cent of total funding into UK spinouts coming from foreign investors for the first time on record.

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OfficeHours

AUGUST 25, 2023

This means that banks commit to providing debt financing for a transaction, and then they syndicate this debt out to a variety of investors and pocket a fee for this service (say, 2-3% on average). This capital is released once investors buy the debt off the banks’ balance sheets. This has a number of implications.

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Beyond M&A

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Rising interest rates, higher costs, and prolonged fundraising cycles have created a tough environment for startups and investors alike. Startups are struggling to secure capital, venture capital firms are facing the same difficulties, and even Fund of Funds are finding it hard to attract investors. You tell me.

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Cooley M&A

APRIL 1, 2022

And let’s not forget the extensive recommendations from the SEC’s Investor Advisory Committee addressing SPAC regulatory and investor protection issues that have been under scrutiny. See this PubCo post.)

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TechCrunch: M&A

MAY 31, 2023

Angel investors include executives from Plaid, Brex and Instacart, along with Stripe CEO Patrick Collison. billion at a $50 billion valuation after being valued at $95 billion in March of 2021. Founded in 2019, Okay participated in Y Combinator’s Winter 2020 cohort before going on to raise a total of $6.6

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Growth Business

JUNE 5, 2023

per cent between 2021 and 2022, lower than the 9 per cent fall across the board. “We per cent in 2021 to 28.7 What’s more, female-led businesses also raised £5.75bn from private equity investors last year in 2,097 deals. The study looked at 46,226 fast-growing companies in Britain last year. per cent in 2022.

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Growth Business

JUNE 8, 2023

Angel investing in Britain – a Growth Business guide — Angel investors put £2bn a year into early-stage UK start-ups – here’s what angel investing is and how to get it. Global tech exits — through both IPOs and M&A — remain stagnant, with $21bn in value so far this year, compared to a peak of $177bn in 2020 and $166bn in 2021.

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PE Hub

OCTOBER 17, 2023

PDQ's existing investor is TA Associates, which made its initial investment in the company in 2021. The post Berkshire Partners backs IT asset management software provider PDQ appeared first on PE Hub.

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The TRADE

MARCH 11, 2024

According to a Deloitte study in 2021, women in the Singapore financial industry held 20.8% Read more: The TRADE launches Diversity & Inclusion Survey for 2024 Among our efforts as an exchange to promote diversity, we mandated listed companies to set a board diversity policy back in 2021. of C-suite roles and 24.5%

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Growth Business

AUGUST 23, 2023

Chris Lascelles, investor at Triple Point Ventures, gives his low-down on how to get it right VCT fund managers told the Financial Times they were investing to help some portfolio businesses deal with rising costs, especially when it comes to salary expectations in software. How do you know it’s time to raise venture capital?

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TechCrunch: M&A

JUNE 26, 2023

It’s ThoughtSpot’s fourth acquisition following (most recently) the company’s purchases of SQL-based analytics firm SeekWell in March 2021 and data integration company Diyotta in May of that same year. Enabling all the deals is ThoughtSpot’s massive war chest, which totaled over $663 million as of August 2019.

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Growth Business

MAY 18, 2023

The number of start-ups that raised money through EIS also reached an all-time high of 4,480 in the year ending April 2022, up 19 per cent from 3,765 in 2021. EIS is the government’s flagship tax incentive to encourage private investors to back early-stage start-ups and scale-ups.

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Growth Business

MAY 31, 2023

Despite the first quarter of 2023 seeing a drop in deals to 41, down from 95 in the same quarter in 2022, the UK remains the biggest angel investor market in Europe. An angel investor is an individual investor with, usually, a high net worth. See also: What metrics do start-up investors look for?

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Transactional Delights

JANUARY 24, 2021

The deal is valued at ~$1 billion and expected to close by the first quarter of 2021 [2]. On January 11, 2021, T. On January 19, 2021, CKH responds to T. On January 22, 2021, AIP announces that it will extend the tender until February 4, 2021, but at the same offer price of $41.50. outstanding number.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

OCTOBER 4, 2023

And that is exactly what happened when I watched Dumb Money , the movie about the GameStop short squeeze in 2021 , the other day. I wrote about the GameStop short squeeze back when it happened in February 2021, and it turned into the most popular article of the year. I wrote many articles about it.

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Accenture Capital Markets

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

And while new listings increased in 2021, they declined (as did investment flows) again in 2022¹. In creating this network effect, digital issuance could also address the #1 concern of investors today in the private markets—notably liquidity and transferability. Accreditation of investors, especially retail ones. The good news?

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Shearman & Sterling

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Travis Laster of the Delaware Court of Chancery denied a motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction claims of tortious interference asserted against a principal of a private equity fund (the "Fund"), which had been the majority investor of a limited liability company (the "LLC"). 2021-0518-JTL (Del.

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