Deal Lawyers

OCTOBER 28, 2024

As this Cooley M&A blog notes, earnouts are a much more common — and high-stakes — feature of life sciences M&A deals than non-life sciences deals, which only included an earnout 21% of the time according to SRS Acquiom’s 2023 Life Sciences M&A Study. Vice Chancellor Laster once […]

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Sun Acquisitions

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have always been a high-stakes game. From streamlining complex processes to uncovering hidden opportunities, tech supercharges M&A dealmaking across all stages. Faster Timelines: Seize the Moment The M&A world is all about speed and agility.

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Deal Lawyers

JANUARY 23, 2024

I’m not usually one for fortune-telling, but this recent Freshfields blog makes some well-supported predictions for M&A trends in 2024. Among them is the expectation that an increase in hostile M&A is in our future — driven by board room optimism on both sides of the table.

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Deal Lawyers

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Late last month, I blogged about Seyfarth Shaw’s recently published “Middle Market M&A SurveyBook,” now in its ninth edition.

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Deal Lawyers

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Here’s my recent post on The Advisors’ Blog on CompensationStandards.com regarding M&A synergy awards: WTW’s Global Executive Compensation Analysis Team recently conducted a study of the 100 largest U.S. mergers from 2018 to 2022 focused on the use of special synergy awards.

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Sun Acquisitions

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In today’s digital era, artificial intelligence (AI) and automation are revolutionizing industries worldwide, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are no exception. These technologies are fundamentally altering how businesses approach M&A, enhancing efficiency, reducing risks, and unlocking new opportunities for value creation.

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Deal Lawyers

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Last week, John blogged about the DOJ’s new “Mergers & Acquisitions Safe Harbor Policy” intended to incentivize voluntary self-disclosure of wrongdoing uncovered during the M&A process, which Deputy AGs had previewed in a speech and multiple prior comments.

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Deal Lawyers

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This Freshfields blog discusses an oft-overlooked issue in post-closing M&A disputes — crossover witnesses.

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Sun Acquisitions

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have always been a powerful tool for companies to grow and expand. In the future, M&A activity is expected to remain strong, driven by several key trends: Technological innovation: Companies increasingly seek M&A to acquire new technologies and capabilities.

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Focus Investment Banking

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

This is a major departure from past M&A rules, effectively rendering multiple-award contracts worthless for an acquirer. However, from an M&A perspective, the vast majority of these transactions involve a large business acquiring a small business. Note that this change goes into effect January 17, 2026.

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Deal Lawyers

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Earlier this month, I blogged about comments made by Principal Deputy AG Marshall Miller on the relevance of the DOJ’s voluntary self-disclosure policy for companies engaged in M&A transactions. During the course of those comments, Deputy AG Miller promised further guidance on this topic in the near future.

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JD Supra: Mergers

MARCH 19, 2024

We’ll examine the two underlying insurance categories in this blog and their impact on the reps and warranties insurance that companies should purchase for their merger or acquisition. Most forms of insurance fall into one of two categories: claims-made or occurrence-based.

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Midaxo

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

M&A transactions can be incredibly rewarding, but they also come with significant risks. M&A due diligence is the process that allows you to dig deep into a target company’s details and evaluate whether the acquisition aligns with your strategic goals. This goes beyond just the surface-level aspects of the target company.

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Midaxo

JULY 19, 2023

M&A transactions involve complex processes, multiple stakeholders and a significant amount of data. One such tool gaining prominence in the M&A landscape is the Midaxo Value Tracker. In this blog post, we’ll explore what the Midaxo Value Tracker is, why it matters and how it can revolutionize your dealmaking efforts.

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Sun Acquisitions

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) are exciting ventures promising growth, innovation, and market dominance. While financial projections and strategic fit are essential, successful M&A hinges on effectively uniting the distinct cultures of the merging companies. This can lead to a decline in morale, productivity, and innovation.

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Midaxo

APRIL 25, 2023

Introduction This article showcases how ChatGPT can serve as an effective M&A consultant by demonstrating how it can be used to help develop a best practices-based M&A playbook. An M&A playbook is a comprehensive framework that guides an organization’s M&A activities from start to finish.

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Deal Lawyers

JUNE 3, 2024

Here’s something Meredith recently blogged about on Compensation Standards.com: This Morgan Lewis blog walks through the key decision points deal teams need to address when determining how to treat performance-vesting awards in connection with corporate transactions — after nailing down what is permitted under the terms of equity plans, award (..)

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Deal Lawyers

JULY 24, 2024

Earlier this year, Meredith blogged about a federal court’s decision holding that a “bump-up” exclusion in a D&O insurance policy resulted in the loss of […]

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Focus Investment Banking

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Below, we highlight trends that drove M&A activity in food and beverage in 2024: In Food Distribution, Buyers Focus on Fresh Food distribution has always had its place in the M&A market. Bakery Heats Up M&A Baked goods know no boundaries.

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Deal Lawyers

MAY 7, 2024

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know I’ve got a soft spot for M&A history. That’s why this CLS Blue Sky Blog discussing a new article on the history of private equity caught my eye.

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Deal Lawyers

OCTOBER 9, 2024

However, the parties to a merger agreement may agree to depart from the default rule, and a recent Morris James blog highlights the Delaware Superior Court’s decision in Biomerieux v. The default rule in Delaware is that the attorney-client privilege passes in a merger from the acquired company to the buyer. Rhodes, (Del.

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Deal Lawyers

MARCH 19, 2025

This Cooley M&A blog takes a look at 2024 activism trends. As the blog explains, “activists had greater success in driving executive shakeups, logging 27 CEO resignations following the launch of a campaign (an all-time high, representing a 69% […]

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TechCrunch: M&A

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In a blog post, Arctic Wolf chief product officer Dan Schiappa said that the acquisition would […]

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Sun Acquisitions

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, technology’s impact on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is profound and multifaceted. Businesses aiming to navigate the M&A process must consider traditional financial and operational metrics and the technological prowess and readiness of acquiring and targeting companies.

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How2Exit

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Neglected websites are those that have been built up over the years by hobbyists or those who don’t understand the M&A space. Another way to find neglected websites is to look for the top blogs in a particular niche. The digital world is filled with opportunities to find and buy digital assets.

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Deal Lawyers

JULY 23, 2024

This recent Sheppard Mullin blog addresses a topic that’s becoming increasingly important in M&A transactions – how to draft reps & warranties that cover AI issues for deals that don’t involve AI-related businesses.

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Deal Lawyers

JUNE 4, 2024

Recent data suggests that the use of Rep & Warranty Insurance may have plateaued, but this Cooley M&A blog says that market development has led to some news for purchasers of RWI. The blog says R&W policy purchasers in this cooling market have been able to obtain more quotes, and more favorable policy rates and […]

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Beyond M&A

DECEMBER 18, 2024

I'm noodling and tinkering with a new (free) hobby project called [link]. To some, Agent-based AI is a buzzword, to others, they are already commercialising it. I have a simplistic view of the tech itself – an agent will perform a specific task it is built for, in a particular sequence, to provide a specific output.

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H. Friedman Search

JUNE 27, 2024

Yup, “I’m happy here.” We’ve talked about complacency in previous blogs, and that is not where I am going with this one. “Do you know what the number one response recruiters get when they ask anyone about their desire to hear about new opportunities? But is happiness enough? Does happiness pay the bills?

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Deal Lawyers

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

John has blogged previously about the renewed reliance on earnouts in today’s uncertain environment. In fact, this Freshfields blog states that “one recent study found that the use of earnouts in U.S. private M&A deals in 2022 was higher than in any year since 2017.”

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TechCrunch: M&A

AUGUST 29, 2023

In a blog post published yesterday, CEO and co-founder Brendan Falk said that Amazon was acquiring Fig’s technology, while its employees — including two co-founders — would be joining Amazon’s cloud subsidiary AWS.

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Cisco: M&A

JANUARY 22, 2025

Learn about telemetry-first design in this latest blog from Kunal Hatode. At its core, telemetry design refers to the automated collection, transmission, and analysis of data from systems, devices, or applications.

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Deal Lawyers

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

A recent Willis Towers Watson blog says that both debtors and potential buyers of distressed assets should consider using R&W insurance and the other transactional insurance solutions which have become staples of private M&A deals in other contexts as an alternative to traditional risk allocation for their transactions.

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Deal Lawyers

JUNE 18, 2024

Last year, Meredith blogged about the EU’s implementation of its Foreign Subsidies Regulation and its potential impact on M&A transactions. Here’s an excerpt from Reed Smith’s […]

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Deal Lawyers

DECEMBER 12, 2024

In November, John blogged about the Chancery Courts recent decision inGB-SP Holdings LLC et al. This Fried Frank M&A briefing on the case discusses the facts that caused Vice Chancellor Fioravanti to evaluate the adoption of the forbearance agreement under the entire fairness standard. Walker(Del.

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Cisco: M&A

MARCH 15, 2024

It’s part of our ongoing m… Read more on Cisco Blogs Today marks the launch of Cisco Routed PON , a truly disruptive solution that enables agile, differentiated broadband services through a software-defined broadband network.

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Deal Lawyers

APRIL 9, 2024

A recent S&P Market Intelligence blog says that the first quarter of 2024 may see the highest number of big deal announcements in two years. Four global M&A deals with transaction values greater than $10 billion were announced in February, and with eight deals of this size through the first two months of the year, […]

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