TechCrunch: M&A

OCTOBER 5, 2023

billion to acquire SP Plus, a provider of parking facility management services, in a combination of equity and debt. AI-powered parking platform Metropolis today announced that it raised $1.7

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JD Supra: Mergers

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

European loan and bond issuance nearly doubled year-on-year. Refinancing and repricing drove activity, as issuers. By: White & Case LLP

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JD Supra: Mergers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We are seeing - Continued availability of growth capital for specialty lenders—SME lenders attract the most capital in the previous 12 months - VC debt cheques (e.g., Quilam Capital's debt investment in Merchant Money and Fasanara Capital's debt investment in Novicap). By: White & Case LLP

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JD Supra: Mergers

JUNE 21, 2024

Primary investment grade bond issuance surged in Q1 2024 as investors ramped up exposure to high-quality borrowers in a high interest rate environment. In the US, investment grade corporate borrowers secured US$429.7 billion of financing in Q1 2024; the highest level of quarterly issuance since Q2 2020, according to S&P Global.

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TechCrunch: M&A

JULY 25, 2023

Indeed, iRobot has said that it is having to raise $200 million in debt to “fund its ongoing operations,” a debt that Amazon will take on when (or if) the deal finally closes — and that is why it has tabled a new lower bid for iRobot. While the U.K. In the U.S.,

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Mergers and Inquisitions

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Ask anyone interested in distressed debt hedge funds for “the pitch,” and they’ll probably mention one of the following: “It’s like long/short equity or credit , but more interesting!” Distressed debt investing offers advantages over other hedge fund strategies , but the marketing often oversells the benefits.

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JD Supra: Mergers

AUGUST 16, 2024

Distressed mergers and acquisitions (M&A) involve companies in financial or operational distress, potentially on the brink of insolvency or already grappling with significant debt burdens.

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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. Acquiring companies need to understand the target’s digital capabilities, potential technology debts, and how well their systems integrate with their own.

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JD Supra: Mergers

JUNE 27, 2024

capital markets’ resilience and ability to adapt, IPOs, debt markets and mergers and acquisitions (and related financings) have shown substantial increases over 2023. As a testament to the U.S.

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TechCrunch: M&A

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As companies look to stave off technical debt, a process of aging systems limiting a company’s ability to modernize, the first step is simply understanding the state of your architecture. SAP announced today that it is acquiring German startup LeanIX, a software service which helps companies map out their architecture.

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TechCrunch: M&A

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Arctic Wolf, a cybersecurity company that’s raised hundreds of millions of dollars in debt and equity, today announced that it plans to acquire Revelstoke, a company developing a security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) platform, for an undisclosed amount.

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JD Supra: Mergers

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Macroeconomic uncertainty has impacted Indonesian debt markets in recent years. But, after a period of disruption, prospects for domestic and offshore debt issuances are brightening. By: White & Case LLP

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The New York Times: Mergers, Acquisitions and Dive

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But their crushing debt load could be a turn-off. A potential deal could bolster their streaming businesses and negotiating power with cable operators.

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JD Supra: Mergers

JUNE 26, 2024

The challenges facing financial sponsors in the past couple of years have been widely discussed. Their funds have amassed over $1 trillion in dry powder that they are competing to deploy in a weak exit market. By: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

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Midaxo

AUGUST 2, 2023

Midaxo was pleased to showcase its productivity platform for corporate development, which includes purpose-built pipeline management, due diligence and post-merger integration modules. The current high-interest-rate environment is complicating matters by making it more difficult to pencil out debt-driven private equity deals.

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The Guardian: Mergers & Acquisitions

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Online fashion retailer’s sale of 75% stake to Jack & Jones owner could bring store back to the high street Business live – latest updates Asos has sold a majority stake in Topshop for £135m in a deal that will help it repay debts and could see the brand return to the high street, as fashion retailers struggle after a soggy summer.

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Francine Way

JUNE 22, 2020

I learned a few new things in these 2 roles, including how to evaluate a merger opportunity and present it to a corporation’s Board of Directors (BoD). To pick up where we last left off with valuation, I will cover the topic of a Merger Relative Valuation in this blog post and move on to other non-valuation topics from here.

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JD Supra: Mergers

JUNE 3, 2024

For companies, this makes funding growth initiatives and refinancing existing debt much more expensive. As central banks continue their campaign to cool inflation, interest rates remain at elevated levels not seen in well over a decade. By: White & Case LLP

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JD Supra: Mergers

MARCH 10, 2025

The Review covered a firms operating in range of private asset classes, including: venture capital, infrastructure (equity and debt), private equity and private debt. By: Proskauer - Regulatory & Compliance

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JD Supra: Mergers

JANUARY 18, 2024

14,801/2024 creates infrastructure debentures, changes rules for incentivized debentures and investment funds in the sector, including tax guidelines, and promotes incentives for raising funds through the issuance of debt securities abroad (bonds). New Law No. By: Mayer Brown

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JD Supra: Mergers

JULY 15, 2024

Welcome to this edition of Credit Conditions, a quarterly publication from McDermott Will & Emery that analyzes recent debt market trends. Key Debt Market Trends - Interest Rates - “Start your engines” has shifted to “hold your horses” as rates continue to remain “higher for longer.”

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JD Supra: Mergers

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

After a subdued 2023 during which it was challenging for private equity (PE) to raise debt financing as a result of elevated interest rates and a difficult syndicated lending market, 2024 featured a material shift in the global credit landscape. By: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

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The TRADE

JANUARY 16, 2024

Specialist financial services investor, Atlas Merchant Capital, is backing the merger, providing enough liquidity to support Panmure Liberum’s long-term strategic ambitions. The post Panmure Gordon and Liberum agree merger to create new investment banking giant in the UK appeared first on The TRADE.

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JD Supra: Mergers

MARCH 27, 2024

Higher interest rates presented a challenging environment for dealmakers and the debt markets in 2023. In this edition of Credit Conditions, we look back at last year’s key market trends and explore their potential impact on debt markets in the coming year. But what does 2024 have in store? By: McDermott Will & Emery

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JD Supra: Mergers

MAY 17, 2024

By: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

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JD Supra: Mergers

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Equity and debt cheques from financial sponsors fuel growth, with investment committee appetite across the full spectrum from Seed through to late stage / pre-IPO. The payments sector bucks the trend on IPOs. Current market: M&A activity levels retain a monumental high. By: White & Case LLP

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JD Supra: Mergers

AUGUST 13, 2024

What began as an outlet for companies with riskier credit to raise debt, the private credit asset class has morphed into a viable alternative lending source for middle-market and, increasingly, large-cap companies. Private credit has grown from managing around $250 billion in assets in 2008 to nearly $1.7 trillion in assets as of June 2023.

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JD Supra: Mergers

AUGUST 30, 2023

In this edition of Fintech Flash, we discuss important things you should know about the change of control requirements when acquiring a fintech company with state lender, loan broker, debt collector, or money transmitter licenses. By: Goodwin

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JD Supra: Mergers

MARCH 12, 2024

Traditional debt financing was expensive and scarce, expectations on valuations were tricky to navigate, portfolio companies required additional attention, fundraising was not easy and regulators continued to scale up their scrutiny of the industry and its transactions.

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TechCrunch: M&A

JULY 17, 2023

The deal values Furlenco, which has raised over $225 million altogether prior to the deal against equity and in debt, at about $104.3 Sheela Foam has proposed to pay $36.5 million for the 35% stake in the Bengaluru-headquartered startup, the older firm said in a stock exchange filing.

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The TRADE

JULY 5, 2023

LCH RepoClear has merged its RepoClear Euro debt service, which includes specials and general collateral, with its tri-party basket repo clearing service €GCPlus. As a result, members are now able to settle Dutch government bonds at Euroclear Netherlands as well as Austrian and Spanish government bonds at Clearstream Banking Frankfurt.

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JD Supra: Mergers

DECEMBER 8, 2023

At McGuireWoods’ 16th annual Healthcare Finance & Growth (HCFG) Conference, panels of healthcare-focused investors and lenders provided insights about the healthcare M&A and debt markets. By: McGuireWoods LLP

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JD Supra: Mergers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

To greatly simplify, the NWC target is the minimum amount of net working capital which the Buyer requires the acquired company to have at Closing so that the Buyer can operate the business without disruption and the immediate need to add significant cash or take on additional debt. By: Whiteford

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JD Supra: Mergers

DECEMBER 7, 2023

There is a wealth of dry powder to spend but 2023 has seen M&A deal activity hampered by rising costs of debt, unstable markets, supply chain issues, general political uncertainty, and fear of global recession. So, what does 2024 have in store for European M&A? By: Proskauer Rose LLP

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Midaxo

OCTOBER 12, 2023

During a live Q&A in September — 7 Tips and Tricks for Successful Technology Due Diligence and Integrations — Mart Lumeste, Co-Founder of Intium Tech covered the challenges and best practices for creating technology integration playbooks, managing technical teams post-acquisition, and integrating technologies post-merger.

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JD Supra: Mergers

AUGUST 2, 2024

A typical European leveraged loan will comprise of various tranches of debt, for a variety of purposes, all documented within a single facilities agreement.

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Synopsys: M&A

JANUARY 27, 2023

Understanding how software is developed and the areas impacted by technical debt can help lawyers and investors assess software risks during an M&A.

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