JD Supra: Mergers

MAY 24, 2023

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

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JD Supra: Mergers

JUNE 23, 2023

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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JD Supra: Mergers

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

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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Sica Fletcher

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

And What We Anticipate in 2022 2021 is finally behind us, and, as the old curse goes, we still appear to be living in interesting times. 2021 was not an easy year, and now that it's behind us we can't help but wonder what 2022 has in store.

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InvestmentBank.com

MAY 12, 2021

This article offers a look into M&A activity within the Media and Telecom industry up to and during 2020. It aims to update readers on deal volumes and values within the industry and to provide a framework to predict future trends in 2021. Deal Value U.S.

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JD Supra: Mergers

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The National Security and Investment Act 2021 (NSIA), the UK’s first standalone regime for screening investments on national security grounds, has been in force for two years. The UK government is considering steps to make the regime more business-friendly, while maintaining and refining essential national security protections.

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Cooley M&A

MAY 5, 2021

Caitlin Gibson has been named to Law360’s 2021 M&A Editorial Advisory Board, which provides feedback on Law360’s coverage and expert insight on how best to shape future coverage. Read the Law360 article here (Subscription required). Contributors. Caitlin Gibson.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 20, 2022

General trends in tech M&A. Despite everyone’s efforts in 2021, including the rollout of vaccines and varying rounds of lockdowns and work-from-home mandates, a true “return to normal” for M&A dealmakers was foiled anew by COVID-19 and its variants. Tech M&A surged to a staggering $1.1 trillion(!)

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Synopsys: M&A

JULY 8, 2022

Find out what our audit services team unearthed in the 2,400+ codebases we reviewed in 2021. The post The M&A Open Source Risk Number appeared first on Application Security Blog.

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Midaxo

APRIL 13, 2023

Optimizing your M&A pipeline process to source the best targets can be a daunting task, especially if you lack the latest tools and strategies. Using a systematic and repeatable approach for M&A has been found to deliver dramatically better performance than all other strategies.* We look forward to seeing you there!

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Cooley M&A

APRIL 16, 2021

The M&A ecosystem has continued to grow, evolve, and morph through the pandemic, economic cycles and the rise and fall of various industries.

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Solganick & Co.

JULY 12, 2024

Report: Artificial Intelligence in a Growing M&A Landscape, 1H 2024 July 12, 2024 – Solganick has published its latest M&A update on the artificial intelligence industry sector as of 1H 2024. Deal count was down while overall investment was up. For more information, please contact us.

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Benchmark International

MAY 24, 2023

After a very active year in 2021 and a reasonably robust market in 2022, M&A deal-making in the healthcare sector will soar in 2023 thanks to much corporate cash and private equity sitting on plenty of dry powder.

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Focus Investment Banking

APRIL 26, 2024

Although 2023 M&A activity was down from the high level of 2021, there are some signs that M&A activity in 2024 is picking up. We believe that the M&A market in the Photonics space is also likely to rebound this year.

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JD Supra: Mergers

AUGUST 17, 2023

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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JD Supra: Mergers

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

According to the American Bar Association's Private Target Mergers and Acquisitions Deal Points Studies, financial statement representations are universally required from sellers in private company M&A deals, included in almost every transaction—99% covered by the most recent study in 2021. Originally Published in Bloomberg Law.

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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. In 2020, M&A activity lagged — and then soared. presidential election.

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The Harvard Law School Forum

JANUARY 7, 2023

Related research from the Program on Corporate Governance includes Are M&A Contract Clauses Value Relevant to Target and Bidder Shareholders? After a record-shattering year for M&A in 2021, a crescendo that built over a decade, powered by unique pandemic conditions, 2022 was, statistically, a reversion to the mean.

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JD Supra: Mergers

JULY 12, 2023

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.

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The Deal

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

M&A deals in the cryptocurrency space have been on an exponential rise over recent years. There were a record 626 completed deals in 2022, up from 348 in 2021, with the U.S. being the dominant market for M&A activity, according to PwC’s 2023 Global Cryptocurrency M&A and fundraising report.

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Sica Fletcher

APRIL 2, 2024

The following report examines the health and outlook for insurance M&A deals in 2024. We base this research on several key findings in our proprietary SF database, which observes and records data from the top ~400 insurance M&A buyers. Agency vs. Company: Which Is The Better Insurance M&A Deal?

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Solganick & Co.

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

has published its latest mergers and acquisitions (M&A) update on the Cloud Computing sector. It covers relavant M&A transactions within the cloud partner ecosystem including AWS Cloud, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Intelligent Cloud/Azure (and others). November 6, 2023 – Solganick & Co.

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JD Supra: Mergers

APRIL 9, 2024

The economic environment has mostly stabilized following the inflationary shocks of 2021-2022, and a strong Q4 2023 suggests that M&A may be in line for a comeback in 2024. The following trends demonstrate why now is likely a great time to sell your business. By: Foley & Lardner LLP

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Trout CPA: M&A

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

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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Sica Fletcher

MAY 29, 2024

M&A transactions for insurance companies are part of a robust but complicated market that requires ingesting a great deal of data in order to fully understand. While insurance M&A did see slight dips in deal volume and average value (Fig.2)

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The Deal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

With the acquisition of Stoplight Inc. , SmartBear Software Inc. builds on its portfolio of technology for application programming interfaces, or APIs, a critical part of software development that lets applications talk to each other. 22 purchase. “We’ll continue to build products and continue to acquire companies,” Roe said.

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TechCrunch: M&A

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

billion when ratings firm Moody’s took a majority stake in the business in 2021, is acquiring Cybersixgill for $115 million. More consolidation is afoot in the world of cybersecurity. BitSight, a cybersecurity startup last valued at $2.4 Boston-based BitSight’s focus is cyber risk management.

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The Harvard Law School Forum

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

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.

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Software Equity Group

MARCH 13, 2023

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. While median EV/Revenue multiples declined from 4Q20–1Q22, they still outperformed the median public market multiple, and SaaS M&A deal volume jumped to a new record. 4Q22’s multiple of 5.6x

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IBG

JUNE 7, 2023

Four of IBG Business’s partners were recognized by M&A Source on May 24 at the organization’s 2023 Spring Conference & Deal Market in Orlando, Florida. Jim’s award marked his second M&A Source recognition in three years; he was named “Advisor of the Year” in 2021.

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M&A Leadership Council

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

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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Sica Fletcher

JULY 23, 2024

In it, we provide readers with a quick and simple overview of the current insurance brokerage M&A market , after which we discuss several macroeconomic and industry-specific factors that could drastically affect transactions in the next six months. The market is already highly competitive, but it’s also limited to what buyers can afford.

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JD Supra: Mergers

APRIL 8, 2024

M&A activity in the digital infrastructure sector has been growing year-on-year in Europe, with deal counts and cumulative deal values highlighting the resilience of this asset class. By: Latham & Watkins LLP

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Solganick & Co.

MARCH 11, 2022

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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JD Supra: Mergers

MAY 6, 2024

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

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Chesapeake Corporate Advisors

APRIL 8, 2024

The Bad News Is Not So Bad Rising interest rates and economic uncertainty have tamped down the M&A frenzy that peaked in 2021. The Bad News Is Not So Bad Rising interest rates and economic uncertainty have tamped down the M&A frenzy that peaked in 2021.

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The Deal

OCTOBER 17, 2023

On the latest episode of The Deal’s Behind the Buyouts podcast, Solomon Partners co-head of consumer and retail Cathy Leonhardt talks about the sector’s slow start to M&A this year, categories that continue to shine and potential signs of a resurgence in dealmaking.

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