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Cooley’s M&A Insights for Q3 2022

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On August 16, 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act was signed into law. Lavoro to Become Publicly Traded Through Business Combination With TPB Acquisition Corporation I. Cooley Shortlisted in Four Categories at The Deal Awards 2022. Cooley Shortlisted in Four Categories for 2022 LMG Life Sciences Awards.

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CH Auto Technology Corporation Ltd. Completes Business Combination

Global Newswire by Notified: M&A

a Cayman Islands exempted company (“CH Auto”) and CH-Auto Merger Sub Corp., a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of CH Auto (“Merger Sub”).

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Cooley’s 2022 Life Sciences M&A Year in Review

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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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Upgrade acquires travel-focused BNPL startup Uplift for a song

TechCrunch: M&A

billion in July 2022 following an $800 million round. Meanwhile, publicly traded BNPL companies like Affirm and Australia’s Zip have seen their share prices plummet; Affirm was recently forced to shut down its crypto unit and lay off 19% of its staff. billion to just $6.7

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Hopin, the struggling virtual conference unicorn, sells events and engagement units to RingCentral

TechCrunch: M&A

An article in the FT from April 2022 noted that its “explore” tab, for discovering virtual confabs that one might want to attend, listed fewer than 500 events, down from more than 15,000 in November 2020. That was a market turn that impacted a lot of businesses , not just Hopin.)

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Behind the Buyouts: Goldman’s Dubner on Rise in Spinoffs

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The number of such transactions, or “corporate separations” as Dubner calls them, reached their highest in a decade at 30 global deals in 2022, according to a May report from Goldman and Ernst & Young LLP. ’s split into two publicly traded companies, Kellanova (K) and WK Kellogg Co.

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IRS Publishes Proposed Regulations on Stock Buyback Excise Tax

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On April 12, 2024, the US Department of the Treasury and the IRS published proposed regulations ( 89 FR 25980 and 89 FR 25829 , the “Proposed Regulations”) on the application of Section 4501, 1 which imposes a 1% excise tax 2 on certain repurchases of stock of publicly traded US corporations (the “Excise Tax”).

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