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Past Event: SPACs: The Next Gen IPO or Just a Fad?

Cooley M&A

On November 24th, Burson Cohn & Wolfe (BCW) brought together experts from across financial services to discuss current activity and prospects for special purpose acquisition companies (“SPAC”). Going Public via a SPAC vs. an IPO or Direct Listing. What’s Driving the Interest in SPACs.

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Panmure Gordon and Liberum agree merger to create new investment banking giant in the UK

The TRADE

The new firm – Panmure Liberum – will be a market maker in over 750 stocks with all-cap execution capabilities and have over 250 quoted corporate clients with market cap of £250 million. 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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How Merchant Banks Help Businesses Grow and Succeed

Razorpay

Huge corporations have investment banks. 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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Growth Equity: The Child Prodigy of Private Equity and Venture Capital, or an Artifact of Easy Money?

Mergers and Inquisitions

This style is about purchasing minority stakes in cash-flow-negative-but-high-growth companies that want to scale and eventually go public or sell (think: Uber or Airbnb before their IPOs). In the 2010s, startups began to postpone their IPOs, but they still needed funding. There’s usually a long list of previous VC investors as well.

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Breaking Barriers: A Conversation with Lawton Fitt Event Recap

TM Capital

At Goldman Sachs, she led the firm’s technology IPO business and became the first female partner of Goldman Sachs’ equity division. ” Fitt’s experience highlights the significant strides that the financial services industry and broader business world have made toward gender balance over the last 50 years.

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Spot Cyber & IT Challenges Through Improved Due Diligence

M&A Leadership Council

Mark Herndon (MH): IT M&A leaders often talk about adding more strategic value throughout the M&A lifecycle for both corporate development and the enterprise integration lead. MH: Anna, how would you advise a company’s CISO to engage corporate development early in the strategic development and target selection process?

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Spot Cyber & IT Challenges

M&A Leadership Council

MH: IT M&A leaders often talk about adding more strategic value throughout the M&A lifecycle for both corporate development and the enterprise integration lead. MH: Anna, how would you advise a company’s CISO to engage corporate development early in the strategic development and target selection process?

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