Sun Acquisitions

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Common exit strategies include selling to strategic buyers, private equity firms, management buyouts (MBOs), or going public through an initial public offering (IPO). Consider Different Exit Options: Various exit options are available to mid-market business owners, each with its own advantages and considerations.

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Sun Acquisitions

JUNE 22, 2022

We see examples of this in management buyouts, initial public offerings (IPOs), and strategic mergers and acquisitions (M&A). How to Navigate a Buyer or Seller’s Initial Meeting. Sellers who don’t find buyers often end up simply liquidating and closing. Are You Financially Ready to Sell?

Business 52

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Cooley M&A

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The rise of founder-led, venture capital-backed companies in recent years has coincided with a surge of companies implementing dual-class share structures in connection with their initial public offerings. We now turn to the exceptions in dual-class charter transfer provisions that may be available to eliminate this risk.

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M&A IPO Shares Mergers and Acquisitions 59

Cooley M&A

APRIL 5, 2024

While the ruling has broad implications for many current arrangements (particularly stockholder agreements for public companies), it did provide a path forward, noting that many of these provisions would have been valid if included the corporation’s certificate of incorporation instead of the stockholder agreement. The first case, W.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 23, 2024

Strained access to public markets and funding The IPO market remained relatively inactive in 2023, leading many life sciences companies looking to raise funds to turn to other exit strategies. Moving into Q2 of 2023, roughly 29% of US public biotech companies traded below their cash value.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

Newly public tech companies (particularly companies that went public via deSPAC transactions) may find themselves particularly in the crosshairs, given that they as a whole dramatically underperformed the broader market in 2022.

M&A 52

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Focus Investment Banking

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Public Markets: It is possible that a few of the car wash platforms with strong growth and financial performance pursue an initial public offering (IPO). Alternative Solutions: I would expect to see other alternative options used by certain platforms to extend their hold periods.

Private Equity 52

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 22, 2025

This approach, combining M&A and initial public offering (IPO) preparations on parallel tracks, allows companies to maximize optionality in an uncertain market. Of course, the targets leverage in the M&A track of a dual-track process inherently increases when the IPO track is a viable strategy.

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