TechCrunch: M&A

JULY 27, 2023

” Laplanche is referring to the BNPL-style product that Upgrade launched in October 2021, which lets users pay down their debt over six to 36 months with a fixed interest rate. Klarna , once Europe’s most valuable VC-backed company, suffered an 85% valuation cut, from $45.6 billion to just $6.7

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Software Equity Group

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Public SaaS companies enjoyed an unprecedented run from 2009 through 2021, but last year brought a wave of macroeconomic uncertainty, including rising interest rates, record inflation, supply chain problems, and geopolitical unrest. from 2021 by the end of the year. What is the SEG Index?

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Solganick & Co.

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

billion, the slowest growth in eleven quarters (since early 2021), and missing analyst expectations of $8.6 Amazon’s entire business generated $11.2 billion in operating income, thus the AWS operating margin expanded to 30.3%, the widest in two years. Google Cloud Google Cloud’s Q3 2023 revenue rose 22.5%

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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.

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Focus Investment Banking

JUNE 13, 2023

Formerly owned by Tahoe Investment Group, which bought the company in April 2017, Alliance was acquired by Akumin, a publicly traded company, in June 2021 for $820 million. Founded in 2007, publicly-traded TOI provides care to about 1.8 The combined entity includes over 5,000 physicians at 440 locations around the world.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 22, 2021

Time will tell whether SPACs are a fad, and what the impact on the deal market and pending transactions may be if the demand generated by new SPACs begins to outpace the supply of targets who view a SPAC as a compelling source of capital or avenue to the public markets relative to alternatives. A Different Prescription for Poison Pills.

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The Deal

JULY 20, 2023

The memorandum noted that at most seven activist investors held gross positions of greater than $300 million — one of the proposal’s disclosure thresholds — on any given day during a yearlong sample period between 2021 and 2022.

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Solganick & Co.

APRIL 24, 2024

Technology research firm, Canalys, expects MSP M&A activity to grow 50% in 2024, returning to 60% of 2021 levels, as the surge in cloud migrations, outsourced IT, and increasing cybersecurity complexity fuel demand.

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Cooley M&A

MARCH 2, 2021

A SPAC is a publicly traded shell company with no underlying operating business that seeks to merge with a target operating company. SPACs are predicted to be an even higher percentage of the 2021 market share, with SPACs representing 79% of the January IPOs. Special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) are on the rise.

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Cooley M&A

JULY 9, 2021

May 13, 2021), may provide new fodder for appraisal arbitrage. Panera Bread was a publicly traded company that JAB Holdings B.V. January 2020) +12% DCF Private target; unreliable sales process Final (affirmed on appeal on January 22, 2021) Synapse Wireless (VC Slights – Del. took private in 2017 for $315/share.

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Cooley M&A

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In addition, currently public dual-class companies with transfer provisions that do not contain clear carve outs for the delivery of voting agreements in the M&A context should discuss with their advisers the possibility of adopting “clear day” amendments to their charters to include these carve outs. Vote-down termination fee (i.e.,

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Transactional Delights

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In September, Aimco announced that it was planning a spin that would lead to two publicly traded companies: a pure play apartment investment company and a company focused on developing apartment communities. The 2021 annual meeting will not take place until late April (or later). So, what has Aimco been up to?

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Software Equity Group

APRIL 4, 2023

Our panel comprises leaders well-versed in go-to-market operations for SaaS businesses of all types, from bootstrapped startups to PE-backed and publicly traded companies. In 2021, Thoma Bravo acquired iOffice for an undisclosed amount. If you want to learn more about GTM best practices, sign up for our live webinar on April 20 th.

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The Harvard Law School Forum

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Although far from the sweeping tax reform that the Biden Administration had originally envisioned, one provision from the previously proposed “Build Back Better Act” that was included in the IRA is a new 1% non-deductible excise tax on stock repurchases by publicly traded U.S. corporations (the “Buyback Tax”). Overview of the Buyback Tax.

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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 Friday, October 25, the day before the leak TIF was trading at $98.55.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

billion, a 36% decrease from 2021’s record high of $1.1 As was the case in 2021, software deals remained the strongest performer within the tech sector, representing approximately 90% of tech M&A deals. Deal volumes dropped from $531.13 billion [1] during the first half of 2022 to $189.17 trillion. [2]

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Deal Law Wire

APRIL 1, 2021

As of February 11, 2021, the OSC gave the green light for the first publicly traded bitcoin exchange-traded funds in North America. Taxation of Cryptocurrency Transactions in Canada. Parties considering the use of Bitcoin as consideration in an M&A transaction should also keep in mind the potential tax implications.

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