TechCrunch: M&A

AUGUST 2, 2023

Hopin , the virtual events startup that saw its star (and valuation) rise quickly during the COVID-19 pandemic, is most definitely coming down to earth. The companies said that the acquisition will include tech assets, customer relationships (that is, customers using the tools) and engineering, product and go-to-market talent.

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Lake Country Advisors

AUGUST 8, 2024

Accurate and appropriate valuation is one of the pillars of maximizing the profits from a business sale. However, company valuation isn’t as simple as slapping a price on your business. It’s a delicate balancing act, as inaccurate valuations have polarizing consequences.

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Software Equity Group

MAY 7, 2024

2023 saw a myriad of factors impact SaaS M&A multiples, including economic developments, technological advancements, and a public market rebound. But what are the key influences shaping valuation multiples in today’s M&A deals? The Analytics and Data Management category was second in 2023, with 285 deals.

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Software Equity Group

MAY 8, 2024

2023 saw a myriad of factors impact SaaS M&A multiples, including economic developments, technological advancements, and a public market rebound. But what are the key influences shaping valuation multiples in today’s M&A deals? The Analytics and Data Management category was second in 2023, with 285 deals.

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TechCrunch: M&A

JULY 27, 2023

Uplift had raised nearly $700 million in equity and debt, securing $123 million at a reported $195 million valuation in its Series C round alone. Klarna , once Europe’s most valuable VC-backed company, suffered an 85% valuation cut, from $45.6 billion to just $6.7 billion in July 2022 following an $800 million round.

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OfficeHours

JULY 18, 2023

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”). Valuation Uplift and Multiple Arbitrage Apart from the margin uplift and cost benefits described above, roll-ups can create equity value simply through their scale alone.

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Global Newswire by Notified: M&A

MARCH 13, 2025

based private company and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (Fort Products), with Impact Acquisitions Corp. Impact), a capital pool company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (the Proposed Merger), Impact has obtained a valuation report from Evans & Evans, Inc. million (approximately US$11.6

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Software Equity Group

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

SEG’s 2023 Annual SaaS Report provides a comprehensive analysis of the public SaaS market’s performance and M&A activity in the software industry. Our report provides context for private companies to better understand factors influencing their valuations and evaluate how they can position themselves within a changing marketplace.

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Sun Acquisitions

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Sun Acquisitions is pleased to announce the successful sale of Thoesen Tractor & Equipment to OKADA AIYON. Today they are a successful publicly traded international buyer located in Japan. I look forward to seeing the growth and expansion that is to come from this acquisition.

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Global Newswire by Notified: M&A

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Tel Aviv, Israel, Feb. Impact), a capital pool company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (the Proposed Merger).

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Software Equity Group

OCTOBER 22, 2024

While rapid customer acquisition can boost top-line numbers, new customer acquisition can be costly and unpredictable and possibly mask underlying retention issues. The Index is updated quarterly to reflect changes in business models, acquisitions, IPOs, and financial data availability.

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Solganick & Co.

JUNE 2, 2024

has published its latest mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and market update and report on the data analytics sector. It covers the latest M&A transactions, provides a data analytics market map, updates on industry size and growth data, and publicly traded companies and valuations in the sector. Solganick & Co.

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Solganick & Co.

OCTOBER 15, 2024

It covers the latest mergers and acquisitions deal announcements, valuations, public company data, and other trends announced in Q3 2024. Valuation multiples for publicly-traded cybersecurity companies ranged from a median 9.5x EV/2024E revenue for high growth (>20%) vendors to a median 4.0x

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Solganick & Co.

JANUARY 15, 2025

January 15, 2025 – Solganick has issued its latest mergers and acquisitions (M&A) update for the Cybersecurity industry sector, covering Q4 2024 and a 2025 outlook. Valuation multiples for publicly-traded cybersecurity companies ranged from a median of 14.3x at: mkim@solganick.com

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Sun Acquisitions

JULY 21, 2023

Merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions are complex endeavors that can significantly impact the involved companies and the broader business landscape. While the excitement of a potential merger or acquisition can be enticing, companies must exercise due diligence.

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Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 10, 2025

About 3 years ago, I joined the team at Focus Investment Banking, where I spend my time on mergers and acquisitions and capital raising within the collision repair industry. Because they’re publicly traded, we get access to their financials and see how they do quarter in and quarter out and annually for 2023.

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MergersCorp M&A International

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In a significant move to capitalize on the burgeoning Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) market, MergersCorp has announced the launch of specialized services tailored specifically for SPACs. These services are designed to address the complexities that SPACs face in a continually evolving regulatory environment.

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RKJ Partners

AUGUST 6, 2017

As investment bankers, RKJ Partners possesses a breadth of knowledge and experience in advising buyers on business acquisitions. What is Valuation? Valuation can be simply defined as the process of assigning an estimated dollar amount or range to the worth of an item, good, or service.

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Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 18, 2024

There are only a few publicly traded companies in specialty consulting. But those companies have been public for more than 20 years. While the company generated over $260 million in revenues through the first three quarters of 2023, its stock price is trading under a dollar a share, as the company is burdened with substantial debt.

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Solganick & Co.

APRIL 24, 2024

Here are the highlights of the report: Transaction volume and valuation multiples for technology services companies has remained solid during the first quarter of 2024, continuing to exceed pre-pandemic levels in aggregate.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 19, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act imposes a 1% excise tax on certain repurchases of stock of publicly traded US corporations (“Covered Corporations”) effected after December 31, 2022 (the “Excise Tax”). [1] because SPAC sponsor shares are forfeited and not entitled to receive any distributions upon liquidation).

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Solganick & Co.

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

has published its latest mergers and acquisitions (M&A) update on the Cloud Computing sector. Buyers continue to seek companies with a strong relationship with their partners, often placing a premium valuation for investment opportunities involving a differentiated service offering and profile.

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Viking Mergers & Acquisitions

APRIL 17, 2023

He worked with large publicly traded engineering and technology companies, small privately owned businesses, and several government entities. He joined Viking Mergers & Acquisitions in 2022 to serve the entire Myrtle Beach, Grand Strand area of South Carolina as well as the Wilmington, North Carolina, market.

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Cooley M&A

MARCH 1, 2019

Even for a thriving business with a viable equity story, committed stakeholders and the right advisers, the final deal terms and valuation are typically guided by factors beyond a company’s control. Stock market forces also make the timing of an eventual outright exit and the final blended valuation of equity sales over time uncertain.

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Software Equity Group

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A thorough exit strategy planning process will help you understand your options, define your objectives, get the right metrics and documents in order, and identify areas for improvement that could help you attract a buyer and increase your valuation in an M&A exit. Get familiar with M&A deal types.

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Razorpay

JULY 27, 2023

Investment Banking Services Initial Public Offering (IPO) When a privately-owned business wants to become a publicly traded company, it goes through an IPO , or Initial Public Offering. Mergers and Acquisitions Investment Banks also help businesses with big mergers and acquisitions of other businesses.

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Software Equity Group

MARCH 13, 2023

Strategic buyers are publicly traded or privately owned software companies. Particularly notable is the significant decline in public strategic deals, which fell from 35% to 25% from 2021 to 2022. In previous economic downturns, such as 2008, private SaaS company valuations took a hit as public strategics were forced to cut back.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 22, 2020

billion acquisition of The Medicines Company. Other notable deals that passed the $1 billion mark in 2019 included Vitrolife’s acquisition of Parallabs for £1.9 For example, in 2019, Genentech and Convelo Therapeutics entered into a structured acquisition deal to implement a strategic partnership and exclusive collaboration.

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Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 17, 2025

About three years ago, he joined FOCUS Investment Banking , where he works on mergers and acquisitions and raising capital within the collision repair industry. For the example, Strandberg used The Boyd Group , which owns Gerber Collision & Glass , as its a publicly traded company. It’s an industry I love, Strandberg said.

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Software Equity Group

DECEMBER 26, 2022

With record amounts of deployable capital behind them, private equity (PE) investors account for nearly 60% of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals in tech today. When looking at an M&A acquisition, there are two types of main buyers: strategic and financial. How strategic buyers approach an acquisition.

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Cooley M&A

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Given that a SPAC is an alternative means to going public, a significant portion of the webinar was dedicated to discussing some of the key differences—and similarities—between a SPAC and a traditional IPO. Valuation Certainty. Competition / Variation. Another feature of SPAC 3.0 is the competition among SPACs for potential targets.

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Software Equity Group

APRIL 4, 2023

Refined Target Audiences As the business organically grew and we added acquisitions to our portfolio, the marketing team needed to refine its target audience and identify our ideal customer profile (ICP) for new segments. This led to lower customer acquisition costs (CAC) through better conversion rates and ultimately increased revenue.

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Software Equity Group

MARCH 18, 2024

In the lead-up to a merger or acquisition, SEG becomes a trusted partner, assisting clients in bridging knowledge gaps and fortifying aspects of their businesses that may hinder growth. The SEG SaaS Index helps users conduct their own research on over 100 publicly traded SaaS companies.

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Wall Street Mojo

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

When listed as publicly traded companies, they mostly become small-cap and micro-cap stocks trading on the exchange. In addition, many potential buyers seek the LLM for acquisition targets as it reduces competition and allows them to expand in the market with cost reduction and utilization of resources.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 22, 2021

billion acquisition of Portola and Sunrun’s $3.2 billion combination with Vivint Solar), the remainder of the year played host to a steady stream of acquisitions, with many $10+ billion acquisitions in the second half of the year. While initial deal flow was merely a trickle (although notably included Alexion’s $1.4

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Cooley M&A

JULY 9, 2021

The Regal appraisal proceeding arose from Cineworld’s acquisition of Regal Entertainment Group in February 2018. Panera Bread was a publicly traded company that JAB Holdings B.V. Selected Appraisal Decisions Since Aruba Using Valuation Method Other than Deal Price. took private in 2017 for $315/share.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

Amid depressed valuations, biotechnology companies also saw an increasing number of demands from activist investors that in certain cases led to more deal activity. Novartis announced plans to spin off its generics and biosimilars division into a publicly traded stand-alone company.

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