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How Private Equity uses ‘Roll-up’ Strategies to Drive Investment Returns

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One of these “new” strategies that has grown in popularity over the past decade is the concept of “roll-ups” (also sometimes called “platform acquisition strategies”). This begs an important question: why do roll-ups receive a higher value than smaller acquisition targets? and thus receive volume discounts with better pricing.

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Cooley’s M&A Insights for Q3 2022

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Some of the tax provisions contained in the legislation, including the 1% excise tax on certain stock buybacks, may impact special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) at key points in their life cycle. Notable public deals. Amazon to Acquire One Medical for $3.9 Biotech Company ViaCyte to Be Acquired by Vertex Pharmaceuticals.

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Private Equity’s Increasing Consolidation of Oncology Practices 

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according to a recent report by researchers from the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Business School that was published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Similarly, PE-backed platform companies have undergone substantial consolidation through mergers and acquisitions.” Founded in 2007, publicly-traded TOI provides care to about 1.8

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Cooley’s 2019 Life Sciences M&A Year in Review

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A wave of big-ticket transactions by global pharmaceutical companies drove life sciences M&A activity to its fourth-largest year on record in 2019, with aggregate deal value in the pharmaceutical, medical and biotech industry reaching $234.2 billion acquisition of The Medicines Company. Year of the Life Sciences Mega-Deals.

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

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But it wasn’t all carve outs and concerned investors – even with the headwinds in the industry and beyond, there were still several traditional public M&A deals involving biotechnology or medical device companies, as large pharmaceutical companies continued to have cash to deploy for acquisitions.

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Cooley’s 2021 Life Sciences M&A Year in Review

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1] Major all-cash acquisitions have followed, such as Arena Pharmaceutical’s agreement to sell to Pfizer for $6.7 Midsize pharmaceutical buyers pursuing opportunistic acquisition strategies, with robust capital markets and high valuations having limited the pool of attractive assets available in recent years.

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Cooley’s 2022 Tech M&A Year in Review

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The year started off with a bang, with mega-deals such as Microsoft’s pending $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter and Broadcom’s pending $61 billion acquisition of VMware inked in quick succession. Tech M&A in 2022 was a tale of two halves.

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