The Guardian: Mergers & Acquisitions

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

British tech firm valued at $52.3bn before highly anticipated flotation on Nasdaq by private owner SoftBank The British chip designer Arm has secured a $52.3bn (£41.9bn) valuation in its initial public offering (IPO), before its highly anticipated return to the stock market in New York on Thursday.

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Global Banking & Finance

JUNE 26, 2023

Yara postpones clean ammonia IPO after weak valuation OSLO (Reuters) -Norway’s Yara has postponed a planned initial public offering of its Yara Clean Ammonia (YCA) business by one or two years due to an unsatisfactory market valuation, the fertiliser maker said in a strategy update on Monday.

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Global Banking & Finance

DECEMBER 2, 2024

By Joanna Plucinska LONDON (Reuters) -AirBaltic is pushing its planned initial public offering back to the first half of 2025 or later as its advisers suggest waiting for improved market conditions in the European sector.

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Global Banking & Finance

DECEMBER 10, 2024

(Reuters) -Upper Crust owner SSP Group said on Tuesday that it is planning an initial public offering in India of airport lounge operator Travel Food Services, its venture with K Hospitality Corp.

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Global Banking & Finance

OCTOBER 3, 2024

By Julie Zhu, Amy-Jo Crowley and Hadeel Al Sayegh HONG KONG/LONDON (Reuters) – Shein is set to hold informal investor meetings in the coming weeks for its planned London initial public offering (IPO), three sources with knowledge of the matter said, pushing ahead with preparations as it awaits UK regulatory approval.

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Global Banking & Finance

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

(Reuters) – French generative AI startup LightOn launched an initial public offering (IPO) on the Euronext Growth market in Paris on Friday, with a listing expected later in November.

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Global Banking & Finance

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

GDANSK (Reuters) -Croatian food retailer Studenac is planning an initial public offering with plans to list on the stock exchanges of Warsaw and Zagreb, the company said on Thursday. The offer will consist of new shares and the sale of existing shares by current shareholders.

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Global Banking & Finance

OCTOBER 16, 2024

A revival in corporate debt issuance, initial public offerings (IPOs) and mergers has bolstered profits for Wall Street banks this […]

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Growth Business

JULY 11, 2023

You need a vision for the business,’ he says. 2) Invoice discounting / factoring ‘Many businesses fail to realise that one of the biggest assets on the balance sheet is the money owed by debtors,’ says Alex Hilton-Baird, who heads up his eponymous commercial brokering firm. It’s the best scheme in Europe,’ claims Haughton.

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Global Banking & Finance

JULY 1, 2024

Cornia Chui’s Strategic Vision Transforms Financial Narratives for Multinational Corporations Financial communications strategist Cornia Chui has made substantial contributions to the financial public relations industry, especially in managing complex initial public offerings (IPOs) for multinational corporations.

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Razorpay

AUGUST 9, 2023

What do medium to big-sized businesses have? Merchant banks are a very important part of the financial ecosystem, since they support the largest chunk of businesses – the mid-sized ones. Merchant banking is a special branch of banking that provides financial services to medium to small-sized businesses.

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Peak Frameworks

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The Business Life Cycle is a strategy roadmap that tracks a company's growth, maturity, and decline. The Business Life Cycle is split into five stages and provides strategic insights at each stage. Stage One: Development and Startup The first stage of any business life cycle is the development and startup stage.

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Razorpay

JULY 27, 2023

Similarly, businesses with large, complex financial needs go to the country’s biggest banks. Let’s take an in-depth look at what an investment bank is, and how businesses benefit from them. Here’s more detail into the services that investment banks provide to businesses. These banks are called investment banks.

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OfficeHours

AUGUST 9, 2023

Private equity involves investing capital directly into private businesses that are not publicly traded on stock exchanges (that would be a hedge fund). As further discussed below, private equity firms raise funds from institutional investors and use these funds to acquire ownership stakes in businesses.

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Wizenius

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

This serves as the cornerstone for any fundraising model that entails the infusion of either equity or debt into a business. In the realm of LBOs, exits can materialize through a sale to another entity or via an initial public offering (IPO).

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Sun Acquisitions

AUGUST 5, 2024

As businesses adapt to ever-changing market conditions and technological advancements, new trends are reshaping the landscape of deal-making. In an increasingly globalized economy, businesses are expanding their reach beyond domestic borders in search of growth opportunities, access to new markets, and strategic partnerships.

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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. Exiting an investment is an inherently uncertain process. Is the objective to achieve a partial or complete exit?

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Sun Acquisitions

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

For mid-market business owners, the thought of an exit strategy might seem distant or premature. However, having a well-thought-out exit strategy is crucial, whether you’re planning to sell your business shortly or simply laying the groundwork for a potential exit down the road.

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OfficeHours

AUGUST 20, 2023

Private equity involves investing capital directly into private businesses that are not publicly traded on stock exchanges (that would be a hedge fund). As further discussed below, private equity firms raise funds from institutional investors and use these funds to acquire ownership stakes in businesses.

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Francine Way

JULY 8, 2017

PE funds typically have 4-to-7-years ownership windows for an investment and look for an exit at the end of that period through a sale or an IPO (initial public offering). through the business to minimize earnings and taxes. Such expenses overstate the business’ cost structure and need to be added back to earnings.

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MergersCorp M&A International

OCTOBER 15, 2024

SPACs are publicly traded companies that raise capital through an initial public offering (IPO) with the primary aim of acquiring an existing private company, thereby enabling it to go public without undergoing the traditional IPO process.

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Wizenius

JULY 2, 2023

In the world of finance, Private Equity (PE) stands as a strategic and dynamic investment approach that unlocks value in businesses. For instance, when a fast-growing e-commerce player like Shopify reaches its peak, an exit via an Initial Public Offering (IPO) can yield substantial profits.

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Focus Investment Banking

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

When I first started out in business in the early 1980s, the goal of every ambitious entrepreneur was to build a business large enough to eventually go public. I still recall the metric that was drilled into me back then: hit $50 million in revenue and a few back-to-back years of profitability and you, too, can go public.

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M&A Leadership Council

AUGUST 15, 2022

A sell-off, which is by far the most common type of divestiture (and the type usually referred to as such), is the sale of one or more company units to another company – for example, when BF Goodrich Corporation sold its JcAIR Test Systems business to Aeroflex Incorporated in 2005. What is a spin-off? . Recent U.S. What is a split-up?

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Chesapeake Corporate Advisors

AUGUST 16, 2024

Private equity (PE) firms are investing in middle market businesses at a healthy pace despite a high interest rate environment that makes it more costly to finance deals. If you are looking to sell your business, PE firms are likely to be among the interested buyers. You have achieved some degree of scale in the markets you serve.

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Cooley M&A

MARCH 22, 2023

With the US initial public offering markets continuing to remain largely closed, and special purpose acquisition company combinations being costly and complex, there’s a new kid in town for foreign companies looking to go public in the US: reverse mergers.

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Software Equity Group

MARCH 21, 2023

Early-stage software businesses may reach a point where they seek resources to help accelerate growth and execute business goals. Software companies may choose a financing option based on their current cash flow, existing debt-to-equity ratio, future growth goals, or accessibility of financing sources for their business.

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Peak Frameworks

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Commercial Banks: These cater to businesses, providing loans, treasury, and cash management services. Morgan, which offer services in underwriting and M&A advisory. When Facebook went public in 2012, it needed an investment bank to handle the Initial Public Offering (IPO).

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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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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

In a subdued year for global M&A, deal-making in the life sciences industry came in waves, with a busy fourth quarter generating cautious optimism heading into 2024. Moving into Q2 of 2023, roughly 29% of US public biotech companies traded below their cash value.

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Sun Acquisitions

JUNE 22, 2022

Why sell your business? Selling a business is emotionally , psychologically, and financially demanding. But as professionals who broker such deals, here are the top six motivations we see for why people sell their businesses. Business owners generally have a business exit strategy. People can’t work forever.

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Razorpay

AUGUST 20, 2024

LLCs or Limited Liability Companies are businesses where the owners are protected against business debts or financial losses as the business is treated as a separate entity from the owners. Public Limited Company It is a type of entity defined in the Companies Act 2013 as an entity whose shares can be held by the general public.

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JD Supra: Mergers

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The SEC Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation has released its Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2024, shedding light on the current state of initial public offerings (IPOs) and the challenges faced by small public companies in the U.S.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

Similarly, we expect sponsors to actively pursue carve out opportunities – like Francisco Partners’ carve out acquisition of the data and analytics assets from IBM’s Watson Health business – in 2023 as tech giants streamline their portfolios to focus on their core businesses.

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Focus Investment Banking

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The reasons for this influx of investment activity are well documented but include: the industry’s attractive profit margins; market fragmentation; POS systems adoption to substantiate the “cash” portion of the business; and a recurring revenue subscription model – all combined with a low interest rate environment created a perfect storm.

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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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