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Representation and Warranty Insurance for M&A Deals: Cooling Market and Emerging Trends

Cooley M&A

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. In current market conditions, underwriters increasingly are offering initial retention below 1% and as low as 0.5%

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How the Growth of Private Credit is Impacting Private Equity

OfficeHours

Following the GFC, the government enacted new regulations that limited banks’ abilities to underwrite highly leveraged financing. For example, banks suffered from numerous hung deals in the 2021-2022 timeframe (Citrix, Twitter, and many others), which limited the flexibility banks had to underwrite new financings.

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How Merchant Banks Help Businesses Grow and Succeed

Razorpay

They may help with underwriting, fundraising, credit or financial advice. Underwriting Services Merchant banks also provide underwriting services for initial public offerings (IPOs), private placements, follow-on public offerings (FPOs) and rights issues. What is a Merchant Bank?

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What Business Owners Should Know about the Events that may Change their Exit Strategy

Lake Country Advisors

Joe Braier, President of Lake Country Advisors, was one of the experts in a M&A Round-table discussion in February 2021. Going into 2021, all agreed that has we get into the new year, this should be a banner year for M&A activity because of the backup due to Covid.

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Covid-19 Impact on US Private Capital Raising Activity in 2020

InvestmentBank.com

Debt Markets Prior to COVID-19, some analysts and debt underwriters encouraged debt issuers to exercise caution after the tenth straight year of economic expansion [1]. Though to a significantly lesser degree than in the early months of COVID, look into the rest of 2021 and beyond features continued uncertainty in the debt market.

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Boopos CEO Juan Ignacio García Braschi Discusses Funding Criteria for Acquiring Ecommerce and SaaS Businesses

How2Exit

He started Boopos in early 2021 to address the challenges that buyers face in accessing financing for acquiring online businesses. With this in mind, Braschi founded Boopos in early 2021 with the goal of helping entrepreneurs acquire businesses through a streamlined and flexible financing process. I felt it was somehow unfair."

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Transforming Adversity into Opportunity: The Need for New Technologies Fuels Insurance M&A

Deal Law Wire

While insurance companies have struggled throughout the pandemic, with share prices collapsing due to a rise in insolvencies, new technologies have the potential to transform the industry, driving a flurry of M&A activity in early 2021. The Technology Imperative. Insurtech has the added benefit of generating cost-saving efficiencies.