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. In a small number of cases, a class of common stock is offered to the public that has no voting rights at all.

M&A 103

M&A IPO Shares Stock 103

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). Buying and selling a company has many overlaps to buying and selling a house. the house failed to increase in expected value), mature market (i.e.

M&A 130

M&A Acquisitions Sale Investment 130

TechCrunch: M&A

JULY 21, 2023

” Founded in 2003, Trans-cab started with a fleet of 50 taxis and tried to go public twice. Consolidation via mergers and acquisitions is on the rise in the tech industry as tight private capital and a slow initial public offering market due to the economic downturn are impacted by growing inflations and high-interest rate headwinds.

Mergers and Acquisitions 246

Mergers and Acquisitions Initial Public Offering Acquisitions Management 246

The New York Times: Banking

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Next year’s biggest headwinds for deal making will be “geopolitics, geopolitics and geopolitics,” says Viswas Raghavan, the co-head of global investment banking at JPMorgan Chase.

M&A 82

M&A Investment Banking Bank Banking 82

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. In a small number of cases, a class of common stock is offered to the public that has no voting rights at all.

M&A 59

M&A IPO Shares Mergers and Acquisitions 59

Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

Although 2022 saw a general decline in M&A activity in the life sciences industry compared to 2021’s frenetic pace (when deal volume was up 52% from 2020 ), life sciences deal flow in 2022 on balance remained strong despite the headwinds. Let’s dig in. Let’s dig in.

M&A 40

M&A Mergers and Acquisitions Pharmaceutical Collaboration 40

Cooley M&A

MARCH 1, 2019

These include prevailing market sentiment, current appetite for acquisitions in a particular sector and the political and economic environment, all of which can change well within a given transaction timetable. Exiting an investment is an inherently uncertain process. Do you have buy-in for the transaction from all relevant stakeholders?

IPO 52

IPO Valuation M&A Business 52