OfficeHours

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Furthermore, if the portfolio company’s revenue is not able to increase with or outpace the rate at which inflation is rising, its valuation will ultimately be impacted. High inflation might make IPOs more attractive as public markets can provide better protection against inflation whereas selling to strategic buyers or secondary buyers (i.e.

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Cooley M&A

MARCH 22, 2023

For further detail on the scheme of arrangement majority tests – see our blog post – “Schemes of Arrangement: Dodgy Plots or Effective Ways to Purchase UK Companies” If it is possible to obtain signatures from all shareholders, a share purchase agreement may give you a timing and certainty advantage to other bidders.

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Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 3, 2024

Cava opened the IPO window and showed that a good company can go public in any market. While the uptick in M&A activity was a positive for 2023, some deals reflected adjusted expectations from sellers on valuations. Whether it’s discussing franchising strategies or valuation trends, our team is here to help.

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Sun Acquisitions

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Invest in strategic initiatives to boost your company’s performance and market position, ultimately increasing its valuation. Common exit strategies include selling to strategic buyers, private equity firms, management buyouts (MBOs), or going public through an initial public offering (IPO).

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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. Additional major acquisitions of 2023 included Pfizer’s acquisition of Seagen for $43 billion and Merck’s acquisition of Prometheus for $10.8

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Software Equity Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

This blog post will explore the key differences among these structures to help you make an informed choice for your software company. That can lead to serious tax savings, so many private equity buyers prefer to acquire S Corps using F reorganizations, which may offer higher valuations for them.

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Focus Investment Banking

APRIL 14, 2024

Healthy competition for the top bakeries has increased valuations in recent years, with strong purchase price / cash flow (EBITDA) multiples. Jim has worked on numerous IPOs, sell-side transactions, fairness opinions, and capital raises, mainly for consumer products companies and restaurants.

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Cooley M&A

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Private equity slowed but not stopped by financing environment Despite record amounts of dry powder accumulating for sponsors, high financing costs, persistent valuation gaps and a closed tech IPO market led to a significant decrease in private equity M&A activity in 2023.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 22, 2021

Fortunately, in May 2020, the SEC adopted amendments to the financial disclosure requirements that alleviated some of the burden for public company buyers in those transactions by permitting the use of abbreviated financial statements without the need to seek exemptive relief, as discussed in more detail in our previous blog post.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

However, deal activity fizzled in the second half of 2022, as high inflation, aggressive anti-inflation monetary policies, geopolitical instability, assertive antitrust regulators and tightening financing markets depressed target valuations, reduced strategic acquirer confidence and sidelined private equity sponsor buyers. trillion. [2]

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Focus Investment Banking

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

.* *FOCUS research I suspect we would have already seen several of these exits were it not for various factors including high valuation targets relative to market demand. 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).

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Focus Investment Banking

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Traditional terminal exit routes for private equity-backed companies are to larger strategic acquirers (often public companies) and IPOs, where a private company becomes publicly traded. It is also likely that IPOs will come to PPM, perhaps first to those specialties with the largest assets (e.g.,

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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. So far this year, deal parties are approaching M&A with cautious optimism. Cautious Optimism in the New Year. The Trump Effect.

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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 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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