JD Supra: Mergers

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Life sciences venture capital (VC) funding and IPOs have picked up in 2024, and anticipated Federal Reserve interest rate cuts will likely further accelerate this trend. The life sciences industry is well positioned for growth in 2025, fueled by strong investor interest and technological advancements, especially in AI. By: Goodwin

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JD Supra: Mergers

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

03 What’s ahead for tech and life sciences IPOs? 04 The Download Quiz: Venture Capital Trends / 01A CONVERSATION WITH EVERCORE. 01 A conversation with Evercore on the market outlook 02 Will there be an alternative path to public? By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

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JD Supra: Mergers

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

We believe this is the wrong question—we view a reverse merger as "going public" during your cross-over round, rather than as an alternative to an IPO. By: Mintz - Securities & Capital Markets *This piece appears in PitchBook’s 2023 Annual US VC Valuations Report.

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Deal Lawyers

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

PitchBook recently published its 2023 Venture Capital Valuations Report, and not surprisingly, the news is pretty grim. IPOs were practical non-existent and the valuations for deals that did get done were pretty dismal, but this excerpt says there’s […] VC valuations continued to head south from their 2021-22 levels.

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JD Supra: Mergers

AUGUST 7, 2024

Global Market Update - The first half of 2024 saw an overall 12% decrease in IPO activity, with a total of 551 listings across global exchanges. Capital raised fell by 16% to US$52.2 While the Americas and EMEIA regions are enjoying steady growth, the Asia-Pacific region continues to.

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JD Supra: Mergers

APRIL 16, 2024

There have been 44 initial public offerings (IPOs) listed on the US stock markets in 2024 thus far, many of which continue to trade at a premium to their initial offering price, demonstrating the strength and buoyancy of current public markets.

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JD Supra: Mergers

APRIL 23, 2024

Initial public offerings (IPOs) and M&A exits are the two most common means of achieving liquidity in a private company. By: Mintz - Venture Capital & Emerging Companies This article addresses an acquisition transaction, which requires preparation and oversight that many founders and managers need to learn as they go.

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Financial Times - Banking

OCTOBER 17, 2023

US lender can only hope to position itself for a rebound in IPOs and merger activity

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Growth Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

By Dom Walbanke on Growth Business - Your gateway to entrepreneurial success In the UK, cleantech, AI, health and biotech dominates venture capital funding – a trend that looks to continue into Q4 and early in the new year. It invests across seed to Series A stages.

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Deal Lawyers

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Here’s a post I recently shared on TheCorporateCounsel.net blog: The Goodwin team that represented the issuer in the first IPO by a traditional venture-backed technology company in more than 18 months recently wrote an alert explaining why the company’s high vote/low vote capitalization structure — which is very common in venture-backed technology (..)

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TechCrunch: M&A

MAY 31, 2023

million in capital from the likes of Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins. They were u sually companies in the pre-IPO phase with hundreds to thousands of engineers where the manager wanted to start tracking what others are doing, and looking for tools to help with decision-making.” Stripe was the kind of customer we served,” Boulanger said.

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Global Banking & Finance

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

By Hadeel Al Sayegh, Andres Gonzalez and Federico Maccioni DUBAI/LONDON (Reuters) -Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways plans to make its stock market debut no sooner than 2025, two people familiar with the matter said, in potentially the first IPO of a major Gulf airline as the UAE’s capital ramps up effort to become a global travel […]

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Cooley M&A

APRIL 27, 2021

Cooley, DFIN, PwC, Nasdaq and The Blueshirt Group took part in a two-part webinar series Behind the Scenes of the 2021 IPO & SPAC Boom on May 4 & 11, 2021. Capital markets update with Morgan Stanley Planning and executing a successful SPAC merger. Planning and executing a successful IPO The investor perspective.

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TechCrunch: M&A

JULY 27, 2023

And those rosy prospects attracted major backers like Madrone Capital Partners, DNX Ventures and Ridge Ventures. million users to the platform, and comes as Upgrade weighs an IPO. At one point, Uplift was on track to drive nearly $1 billion in loans — or so the company’s president, Robert Soderbery, claimed.

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Cooley M&A

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Market volatility, a low interest rate environment and disillusionment with the IPO process, have made SPACs an attractive alternative for private companies looking to go public in recent months. According to Odeon Capital Group research, as of December 2, 2020, 210 SPAC IPOs had been completed representing gross proceeds of ~$72 billion.

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4Degrees

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In the fast-paced venture capital world, deal sourcing and mega IPO exits often capture the spotlight, but the true backbone of successful investing lies in the due diligence process. Though sometimes seen as mundane, this critical stage is essential in distinguishing promising startup companies from the multitude.

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Growth Business

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The knock-on effect of a challenging venture capital climate has been underwhelming recent Nasdaq IPOs from tech companies such as chip designer Arm and grocery app Instacart, resulting in VC firms advising start-ups not to list until next year. But what is a VCT and how does it differ to regular venture capital?

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Global Banking & Finance

JUNE 11, 2024

Golden Goose targets $2 billion market cap in Milan IPO MILAN (Reuters) – Golden Goose is aiming for a market capitalization of up to 1.86 billion euros ($2 billion) in its initial public offering on the Milan bourse, the Italian luxury sneaker maker said on Tuesday. The company set the price range for the share […]

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Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 18, 2024

In that environment, very few firms sought IPOs, and there was a major slowdown in overall exits, whether private or public. And will that mean that some of the privately held management consulting firms or other professional services companies will choose an IPO this year? But those companies have been public for more than 20 years.

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OfficeHours

JUNE 6, 2023

Venture capital focuses on early-stage companies with high growth potential. VC investors provide capital to startups and small businesses in exchange for equity ownership. These investments are typically made in companies that are seeking capital to fund expansion, acquisitions, or other strategic initiatives.

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Global Banking & Finance

MARCH 4, 2024

billion IPO by March end FRANKFURT(Reuters) – German perfume retailer Douglas said on Monday it will pursue a 1.1 billion) initial public offering (IPO) on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, with the listing to be completed in the first quarter of 2024, subject to capital market […] billion euro (about $1.2

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The Harvard Law School Forum

OCTOBER 19, 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.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

MARCH 13, 2024

Some argue that GE offers the best of both worlds: the opportunity to fund innovation and growth – as in venture capital – plus the ability to limit downside risk and invest in proven companies – as in private equity. In the 2010s, startups began to postpone their IPOs, but they still needed funding.

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OfficeHours

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Initial Public Offering (IPO) One way to exit an investment involves taking the company public through an initial public offering (IPO). An IPO involves offering shares of a privately held company to the public in a new stock issuance.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Even though we’ve covered industry groups vs. product groups and teams such as M&A , ECM , DCM , and Leveraged Finance , we continue to get questions about capital markets vs. investment banking. The questions usually go like this: Are capital markets teams (ECM, DCM, and LevFin) “real” investment banking? Do you learn anything?

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Growth Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

By Dom Walbanke on Growth Business - Your gateway to entrepreneurial success Corporate venture capital is venture capital supplied by large corporates to high-growth start-ups. It is interested in companies at pre-Series A through to pre-IPO stage.

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Global Banking & Finance

DECEMBER 1, 2024

By Miho Uranaka and Sam Nussey TOKYO (Reuters) -Bain Capital-backed chipmaker Kioxia has set a tentative price range of 1,390 to 1,520 yen ($9.22 to $10.09) per share for its initial public offering, two people familiar with the matter said. They spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of Kioxia’s regulatory filing expected on Monday.

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TechCrunch: M&A

JUNE 26, 2023

To capitalize on these changes, it is essential to optimize investments which drive better business value, and Apptio does just that,” said Arvind Krishna, CEO and chairman, IBM, in a statement. SaaS is not a fixed cost, which can be a blessing but can also often be a curse when it comes to managing how budgets are planned and spent.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Look around online, and you will quickly discover that most coverage of venture capital interview questions is junk. Categories of Venture Capital Interview Questions I would split VC interview questions into 6 main categories. Venture Capital Interview Questions: Fit / Background Q: Walk me through your resume.

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Growth Business

JULY 26, 2023

The funding rounds Pre-seed Your business is little more than an idea and a plan and you require some starting capital to get the ball rolling. If you go down the venture capital route, you can expect to give up between 10 and 20 per cent equity in return for funding. These elements convince us to jump in with investment.”

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InvestmentBank.com

JANUARY 14, 2021

The Overall Space Similar to other spaces across the globe, the initial state of emergency regarding Covid-19 in the United States brought heavy concerns for those in venture capital. Second, the IPO market, a key exit avenue for VC investments, proved increasingly strong and resilient throughout the year.

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TechCrunch: M&A

MAY 8, 2023

It had raised just over $37 million, per Pitchbook data , with backers in addition to Insight including Left Lane Capital, T-Ventures, and more. Barnes said that an IPO was part of the long-term plan but that “it’s not something we are targeting right now.”

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The TRADE

JANUARY 3, 2024

They will need to take the Capital Markets Union more seriously and remove the frictional cost of trading between countries. In light of geopolitical realities, sluggish economic growth, and constraint public finances, it will be particularly critical for the EU to ensure a new vision in regard to the Capital Markets Union.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 16, 2024

billion of equity raised over the last five years, as well as ranking number one for UK IPOs under £1 billion market capitalisation by deal volume over the same time frame. Together the two firms have an aggregate of £9.9 The new combined entity will have offices in Cambridge, Guernsey, Leeds, London, and New York.

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Growth Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

By Rory Bennett on Growth Business - Your gateway to entrepreneurial success On the face of it, Britain’s venture capital firms have never been more ready to invest in your start-up. Last year, venture capital raised £6.8 Capital invested by venture capital trusts increased by 8 per cent last year to £664 million.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

JULY 12, 2023

but the venture capital case study remains a bit mysterious. We’ll go through a short example for a fictional startup called PitchBookGPT , which comes directly from our new Venture Capital & Growth Equity Modeling course. There’s plenty of information online about case studies in finance interviews (IB, PE, etc.),

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Growth Business

JULY 17, 2024

Venture capitalists Venture capital is finance provided for an equity stake in a potentially high growth company, and is behind some of the best know and most innovative businesses in the UK such as Pizza Express, Centre Parcs, Odeon, UCI cinemas and Spotify. More on venture capital backing How do you know it’s time to raise venture capital?

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