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M&A dealmakers have been on a wild ride: from the pandemic-fueled rout in 2020 to 2021’s record-breaking recovery to a steep decline in 2023, the global M&A market has offered a masterclass in volatility. By: Morgan Lewis
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The M&A market has witnessed a major increase in the use of earnout deal terms after 2021. The number of deals with earnout provisions jumped from around 20% in 2021 to 33% in 2023. By: Womble Bond Dickinson
2024 was a better year for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the UK and Europe than 2023, although overall growth in the market was slow. Deal numbers, by both absolute volume and aggregate deal value, remained far below the heights of 2021. By: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
The mergers and acquisitions (M&A) landscape in 2024 showed signs of recovery following the slump experienced in 2023. Deal volumes increased, but the market remains considerably slower compared to the boom years of 2021 and 2022.
Encouraged by the relative strength of the dollar and improving financing conditions, US bidders are snapping up European assets - Transatlantic M&A was enjoying record-high activity before the war in Ukraine sparked geopolitical turmoil and public market volatility that slowed dealmaking. From a combined US$239.24
Global M&A was laid low by market headwinds in 2023, with a cocktail of high inflation, geopolitical tensions and macroeconomic uncertainty causing activity to slow. Mexico was no exception to this trend, with dealmaking falling from strong post-pandemic performances logged in 2021 and 2022. By: White & Case LLP
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Market conditions suggest that the trend toward longer durations will continue in 2023. Amid the current economic uncertainty, many PE buyers are taking extra precautions to ensure that the deals they pursue will deliver the value they expect. By: Goodwin
is coming off of two years of historically low interest rates and a tremendous amount of liquidity, factors that created a very strong sellers’ market in 2021 and 2022.This Originally published in Smart Business - March 2023.
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M&A in Japan has remained steady since the outlier spike in activity in Q4 2021, with that momentum continuing in the first months of this year. In Q1 2023, there were 196 deals, almost exactly matching the 192 total in the prior quarter. By: White & Case LLP
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billion valuation in May 2021 when it announced a $130 million Series C. Atlassian announced this morning that it is acquiring video messaging service Loom for $975 million, the same company that had a $1.53 That was when companies were still thinking about all work being cloud-based and the future looked oh so bright.
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The deal market reached historic levels in recent years, with record-setting merger and acquisition activity in 2021. Markets have since cooled, with capital becoming harder to find. But any company preparing to sell within the next five years should consider the more common IP issues that arise during the legal due diligence process.
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As predicted in our previous M&A report, 2022 has not lived up to the runaway performance of 2021. It is reasonable to expect that M&A activity will continue with a more cautious tone, as it was headed toward the end of the second quarter. This post is based on their White & Case memorandum.
Overview - The year 2022 started strong but proved to be a mixed year for M&A in what could be described as a return to earth after the record-setting year that was 2021. M&A market alone exceeded $2 trillion in 2021 – a staggering figure that crushed (by nearly 30%) the then-existing record established in 2015.
The past few years have been busy in the M&A space. In Fiscal Year 2022, merging parties filed 3,029 transactions eligible for Second Request with regulatory agencies—the second highest in almost 20 years, surpassed only by FY 2021. By: Lighthouse
4] However, such exceptions were not universal and, as will be discussed below, the vast majority of dual-class charters adopted before 2016 that contained transfer restrictions did not include M&A voting agreement carve outs. Nussbaum is a partner, Bill Roegge and Meredith Klionsky are associates at Cooley LLP. Klionsky, and Mr. Nimetz.
Exit plans have either swiveled or been put on hold as valuations have remained low, and there has not been a huge market for M&A or IPOs. While we may not see the activity level we experienced in 2021, we could see an increase in deals and more exit options available. By: Foley & Lardner LLP
Today, a tale of two markets are seen in healthcare mergers and acquisition (M&A): the present (as reflected in the data about declining dealmaking) and the future (reflected in the increasingly positive outlook by dealmakers). By: Foley & Lardner LLP
By Mark Herndon, Chairman, M&A Leadership Council Some Intergalactic Guidance Remember that 2015 movie with Matt Damon, called The Martian ? It should be "required watching" for all M&A professionals because it offers essential advice all M&A integrators should live by. You just begin. You do the math.
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In Short - The Situation: The Delaware Court of Chancery recently held that supplemental disclosures must be "material" to warrant mootness fees in litigation challenging the disclosures for M&A transactions. 2021-0202-KSJM (Del. Anderson v. Magellan Health, Inc., July 6, 2023). By: Jones Day
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has been named by Axial as a top software M&A advisory firm. Following a record-setting 2021 for lower middle market software M&A, the Software Top 50 highlights the most active software-focused dealmakers on the Axial platform. Technology services were 2021’s second-fastest-growing sector at 64%.
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For life sciences companies, M&A and collaborations are a key strategy for growth, building product pipelines, and getting products to market as quickly as possible. According to BDO’s Life Sciences CFO Survey, 33% of CFOs planned to pursue M&A in 2022, up 25% from the 2021 survey.
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