Focus Investment Banking

MAY 20, 2024

The JML transaction is the latest in a long line of successful deals Bob has negotiated for clients throughout the years. in $8B transaction), howstuffworks.com International (merged into NASDAQ company), Global Metro Networks, MetroNet (IPO), Performance Awareness Corp. IPO), and Megapath Communications.

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Cooley M&A

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

There are compelling rationales for adopting a dual-class structure, but even proponents of the structure generally acknowledge that these benefits are significantly mitigated once the dual-class shares are out of the hands of the founders and/or pre-IPO stockholders. Potential carve outs for M&A voting agreements. Stockholder litigation.

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Cooley M&A

APRIL 5, 2024

Public companies and companies contemplating an IPO are in a trickier situation. It has been common market practice for founders, private equity sponsors and other controlling stockholders to retain governance rights over a controlled company after an IPO, often through a stockholder agreement with the IPO issuer.

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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). If you would like help to prepare your pitch and negotiate with buyers, our seasoned team of M&A brokers is ready to help. Sellers who don’t find buyers often end up simply liquidating and closing.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

The rules are expected to increase the frequency of proxy contests (particularly by less-established activists), afford dissidents increased leverage in settlement negotiations, and increase focus on the strength and qualifications of individual directors.

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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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Cooley M&A

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Over the next few days, we will run a series of Cooley M&A blog posts with some brief observations that offer some M&A highlights over the past year and our thoughts for the year to come. Negotiating Anti-Reliance Language. So far this year, deal parties are approaching M&A with cautious optimism.

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Cooley M&A

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The tech deal floodgates still havent opened, as persistent valuation mismatches, a still (mostly) closed tech IPO market, stiff competition and worldwide regulatory scrutiny continue to weigh on activity, particularly for VC-backed exits and mega deals. billion acquisition of Altair, IBMs pending $6.4 So is tech M&A back?

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