Focus Investment Banking

AUGUST 6, 2023

ESG isn’t just a matter for large, publicly traded companies. Conversely, companies that ignore or perform poorly in environmental, social, and governance criteria are more likely to be left behind. This is particularly true if your partners are publicly traded or foreign-owned. It can also engender government support.”

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The TRADE

JULY 11, 2023

To help boost the attractiveness of the UK’s financial services sector, the UK government revealed last night that it had accepted all recommendations from Rachel Kent’s UK Investment Research Review, published yesterday.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

Will 2023 see a resurgence of traditional public M&A deals or will macro factors and the looming threat of regulatory review continue to push biotechnology companies down creative paths? It’s a more challenging market environment right now than we’ve seen in many years,” said Charlie Kim , who co-chairs Cooley’s capital markets practice.

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Cooley M&A

OCTOBER 29, 2020

On September 24, Cooley M&A partner, Garth Osterman, moderated a webinar on the current trend in going public: SPACs! Revisiting Governance Documentation. The panelists noted that several practitioners and organizations are currently revisiting their forms to consider these sorts of changes.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 22, 2021

The US government implemented a number of economic stimulus measures that rippled across the M&A landscape. But given the number of SPACs that went public in 2020 and have yet to announce a business combination (204 of 247), expect to see many more SPAC business combinations in 2021. 2020, in all its variety, was no different.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

These developments may ratchet up the pressure on target boards to dismantle structural governance protections, modify their capital allocation policies or pursue divestitures of non-core businesses.

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