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. Among 420 private equity firms, the number of closed deals dropped from a high of 193 in Q4 of 2021 to a low of 57 in Q2 of this year, per a GF Data mid-year report.

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Focus Investment Banking

JUNE 13, 2023

On April 23 a group led by private equity firm TPG agreed to acquire OneOncology, the nation’s largest independent community oncology network, in a deal valued at $2.1 While the biggest recent deal, OneOncology is hardly the first oncology platform to be sold to a private equity group. Alliance Health Services.

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Sun Acquisitions

JANUARY 17, 2023

As a seller, brokers have the expertise and experience to help you find potential buyers, negotiate terms of the sale, and handle all the various paperwork that’s involved. A shrewd business broker will be able to facilitate negotiations if a strategic buyer is identified. 3. Sell to a Financial Buyer.

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Cooley M&A

MAY 23, 2024

The American Bar Association’s Private Target Mergers & Acquisitions Deal Points Study estimates that 55% of private transactions used R&W insurance in 2023, a fall from the record 65% set in 2021. The overall number of claims has increased because of the M&A boom in 2020 and 2021. of the policy limit.

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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. in the case of fraud). [3] in the case of fraud). [3] 6] Manti Holdings, LLC v. Authentix Acquisition Co., 3d 1199 (Del.

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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. That said, valuations are still historically strong.

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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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Sica Fletcher

JUNE 20, 2024

The History of Private Equity in Insurance One of the primary forces differentiating the insurance M&A market in 2024 from those of decades past is the presence and dominance of private equity (PE) firms in the buyer space.

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Wall Street Mojo

JANUARY 4, 2024

The target then negotiates a friendly bid with a third company, the white knight. The target’s board then approaches a third company, the white knight, to negotiate a friendly bid that they believe brings more value to the shareholders. The fourth company offers a more substantial offer, making it harder to reject.

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Cooley M&A

JULY 20, 2023

billion as of June 30, 2021 – and that the $1.2 Ellison was prohibited from discussing the transaction with anyone, and both the committee and Oracle employees were only able to participate in the negotiations at the direction of the committee – and after they were informed of Ellison’s recusal. The short answer: no.

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Cooley M&A

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Take, for example, the acquisition of Inovalon Holdings, a dual-class company that completed its IPO in 2015, by a consortium of private equity investors. The risk tolerance of the high-vote stockholder and the dual-class company’s board. Teddy Nimetz. [1] 1] This post mainly focuses on venture capital-backed dual-class companies.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 20, 2022

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. term average of approximately 35%.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2024

This relative unattractiveness for dealmaking in Europe resulted in the proportion of non-European acquirers participating in European cross-border M&A transactions dropping from 12.55% in 2021 to 9.25% in 2023. [2] 2] For 2024, many market observers are hopefully forecasting interest rate cuts by the end of the year.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

However, deal activity fizzled in the second half of 2022, as high inflation, aggressive anti-inflation monetary policies, geopolitical instability, assertive antitrust regulators and tightening financing markets depressed target valuations, reduced strategic acquirer confidence and sidelined private equity sponsor buyers. trillion. [2]

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Sica Fletcher

OCTOBER 29, 2024

All of our data suggests that at least 80% of M&A transactions in 2023 may have been done with a private equity group as the buyer. Final Negotiations At the “end” of due diligence, buyers will come to you with the results of their valuation. A pitch deck is a slideshow that details your company's financial health.

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Cooley M&A

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Private equity back on the hunt Acquisition financing markets reopened in full (albeit still at relatively high rates) over the course of 2024, which spurred an active year for private equity sponsors in tech across take-private acquisitions, private acquisitions and sponsor exits.

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