Cooley M&A

MAY 23, 2024

While representation and warranty (R&W) insurance continues to be used across a broad range of M&A transactions, its use has cooled as dealmakers navigate challenging market conditions. As deal flow has dwindled, competition has increased among carriers, and minimum floors largely have fallen away. of the policy limit.

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Sica Fletcher

JUNE 20, 2024

The insurance M&A market in 2024 is significantly more complex now than it was 20 years ago. However, this report seeks to make sense of these qualities as a whole to provide an overview of the 2024 insurance M&A market. The table of contents below offers quick links for readers seeking specific information in later sections.

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Devensoft

JUNE 1, 2023

Chapter 1: A Modern Due Diligence Guide for Today’s Economy Merger and acquisition (M&A) due diligence is a crucial process for businesses looking to acquire or merge with another. According to a study by Deloitte, over 90% of M&A deals fail to achieve their objectives, often due to inadequate due diligence.

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IBG

AUGUST 21, 2023

A powerful tool in negotiating a business’s purchase price, an earnout can bridge the gap between the amount that a buyer is willing to pay and the seller is willing to accept. One of the roadblocks that commonly arise in structuring a business sale stems from differing viewpoints of value. You might be right, but we’re not so sure.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

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. Let’s dig in.

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How2Exit

MARCH 23, 2023

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Cooley M&A

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

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. In a small number of cases, a class of common stock is offered to the public that has no voting rights at all.

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Cooley M&A

JULY 20, 2023

The mergers & acquisitions market may wax and wane, but one thing in M&A is consistent from year to year: The Delaware courts issue opinions that impact M&A dealmaking. And this year is certainly no exception – Delaware courts continue to have plenty to say about M&A. The short answer: no.

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Sica Fletcher

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Valuation: Your M&A advisor or a third-party agency reviews the provided documentation to determine the overall value of the business. Rather, this is done by the M&A advisor or occasionally by a third-party agency specializing in business valuations. We’ve written in detail about these steps in “How to Value an RIA.”

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The Deal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

on their own and then Engaged came out with their deck at a conference,” said Dan McDermott, a lecturer at Penn who created an activist investing class in 2021. on their own and then Engaged came out with their deck at a conference,” said Dan McDermott, a lecturer at Penn who created an activist investing class in 2021. law and M.B.A.

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Transactional Delights

OCTOBER 15, 2020

What is a twist is that the offer turned hostile, since hostile offers compose only ~10-15% of public M&A. It can enter into negotiations with the offerer, or it can adopt a poison pill, thereby eliminating the ability of an acquirer to acquire economic and actual ownership of the company, without first engaging with the board.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 20, 2022

General trends in life sciences M&A. Although the COVID-19 pandemic that defined 2020 continued to shape much of the life sciences industry in 2021, the way that it did was markedly different. 2] Examples of this strategy coming to bear in 2021 included Thermo Fisher Scientific’s acquisition of PPD for $17.4 driven assets.

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TechCrunch: M&A

JUNE 26, 2023

The deal marks Ramp’s first acquisition since it bought Buyer , a “negotiation-as-a-service” platform that claimed to save its clients money on big-ticket purchases such as annual software contracts, in August of 2021 and second since its 2019 inception. One salesperson is joining the Ramp team as well (Wang left Cohere in 2021).

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What's Market

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Goulston & Storrs M&A attorney Dan Avery is a nationally recognized expert on M&A deal point trends. This article examines the prevalence and usage of stand-alone indemnities in private company M&A transactions with reference to the ABA studies. breaches of representations, warranties, or covenants.

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What's Market

AUGUST 15, 2022

Goulston & Storrs M&A attorney Dan Avery is a nationally recognized expert on M&A deal point trends. Separate purchase price adjustment escrows were present in 47% of the reported deals in the 2021 study. For example, on Jan.

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What's Market

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Goulston & Storrs M&A attorney Dan Avery is a nationally recognized expert on M&A deal point trends. The most recent three of these studies (2017, 2019 and 2021) have looked at representation and warranty insurance (“RWI”) in private company M&A transactions. Bound at Signing.

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Transactional Delights

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Following the November 2019 signing, covid hit and LVMH announced that it would not be able to close the deal by the agreement’s drop-dead date of November 24, 2020 [2] after the French Government sent a letter [3] to LVMH directing it to pause the deal until 2021. On the subsequent Monday, October 28, TIF was trading at $129.72.

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What's Market

AUGUST 29, 2022

Goulston & Storrs M&A attorney Dan Avery is a nationally recognized expert on M&A deal point trends. This article examines trends relating to the use of indemnity escrows in private company M&A transactions. Typically, these escrows are held by a third party independent of the buyer and seller, such as a bank.

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IBG

MARCH 14, 2024

The wording of representations and warranties in a purchase agreement is critical, and ensuring their integrity is a vital role of the parties’ attorneys and, for the seller, their M&A advisor. In its survey, “2021 M&A Deal Terms Study,” SRS Acquion, Inc., six months) to long-term, perhaps as long as four years.

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Cooley M&A

OCTOBER 24, 2024

While this mantra may help bruised egos on the playground, it’s of no use in M&A disputes. September 2024), the Delaware Chancery Courts found buyers liable for failure to comply with negotiated earnout covenants – and in the latter case, awarded the plaintiffs more than $1 billion in damages. On the other hand, in Fortis v.

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What's Market

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Goulston & Storrs M&A attorney Dan Avery is a nationally recognized expert on M&A deal point trends. For example, in the 2021 study only 2% of the reported deals left knowledge undefined. In the 2021 study, nearly all (98%) of the reported deals referred to a knowledge group or specific individuals.

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What's Market

AUGUST 22, 2022

Goulston & Storrs M&A attorney Dan Avery is a nationally recognized expert on M&A deal point trends. In terms of the specific types of baskets, deductibles have become increasingly common, now seen in almost ¾ of transactions reviewed in the 2021 study.

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What's Market

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Goulston & Storrs M&A attorney Dan Avery is a nationally recognized expert on M&A deal point trends. When full disclosure representations are included in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) agreements, they are almost always alongside, and rarely seen in the absence of, a 10b-5 representation. ” 17 C.F.R.

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How2Exit

JUNE 10, 2024

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How2Exit

OCTOBER 23, 2023

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What's Market

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Goulston & Storrs M&A attorney Dan Avery is a nationally recognized expert on M&A deal point trends. Market Trends: What You Need to Know “Sandbagging” concepts are often the subject of intense negotiation in M&A transactions.

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Sun Acquisitions

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

more than in 2021. Forecasts are predicting that in 2023 there will be nearly 2,934 hotel openings across the globe, up from 2,246 opened in 2021. The hotel industry in the United States is growing which is certainly good news for hotel owners intending to sell a hotel business.

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Periculum Capital

JULY 13, 2023

After successfully opening three new locations in 2020 and 2021, Pet Palace engaged Periculum in late 2022 to run a targeted sell-side process positioning the Company as a premium asset in a highly fragmented market. This deal marks Periculum’s third transaction in the rapidly evolving pet care services industry.

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Cooley M&A

MAY 21, 2021

April 30, 2021) is 125 pages long, but she helpfully digests the holding in a single sentence on page 3: “ Chalking up a victory for deal certainty , this post-trial decision resolves all issues in favor of seller and orders the buyers to close on the purchase agreement.” Chancellor McCormick’s opinion in Snow Phipps Group, LLC, et al.

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Cleary M&A and Corporate Governance Watch

MAY 12, 2023

Legal Context The principle of freedom of contract, which allows sophisticated parties to freely negotiate the terms of their agreements and to rely on the enforceability of such agreements is a cornerstone of Delaware law. Specifically, in New Enterprise Associates 14 LP v. in the case of fraud). [3] in the case of fraud). [3]

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What's Market

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Goulston & Storrs M&A attorney Dan Avery is a nationally recognized expert on M&A deal point trends. As a related point, one-half to to three-quarters of reported deals include an express obligation on the part of the seller to disclose breaches of the M&A agreement prior to closing.

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Sun Acquisitions

JANUARY 17, 2023

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How2Exit

DECEMBER 11, 2023

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Intrepid Banker Insights

OCTOBER 17, 2022

We ended 2021 having survived another year of the pandemic, with equity markets at or near all-time highs, interest rates near historic lows, and technology M&A activity at record levels. This has led to a significant drop in software M&A, with each consecutive quarter showing a decline from the last.

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What's Market

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Goulston & Storrs M&A attorney Dan Avery is a nationally recognized expert on M&A deal point trends. Introduction In M&A transactions, unknown target liabilities are typically addressed in different ways throughout the M&A purchase agreement. What Is a No Undisclosed Liabilities Representation?

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Wall Street Mojo

JANUARY 4, 2024

Gray Knight Explained Role In M&A Examples Gray Knight Vs. White Knight Vs. Black Knight Gray Knight Vs. Yellow Knight Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Recommended Articles Key Takeaways A gray knight is a company that unsolicitedly bids to acquire another company. What Is Gray Knight? Table of contents What Is Gray Knight?

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

Tech M&A in 2022 was a tale of two halves. billion, a 36% decrease from 2021’s record high of $1.1 2] Despite the downtrend, global tech M&A activity in 2022 remained strong relative to pre-pandemic levels and accounted for a record 20% of all global M&A activity. Deal volumes dropped from $531.13 trillion. [2]

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