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Grab acquires Singapore’s third-largest taxi operator Trans-cab 

TechCrunch: M&A

The deal, Grab’s first local competitor acquisition, is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2023 and includes “Trans-cab’s taxi and car rental business, maintenance workshops and fuel pump operations.” ” Founded in 2003, Trans-cab started with a fleet of 50 taxis and tried to go public twice.

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IPOs, Inflation Data and More Are at Risk in a Shutdown

The New York Times: Mergers, Acquisitions and Dive

Important economic data could be delayed, as could regulators’ decisions on mergers and new public listings.

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UK chip designer Arm valued at $51 a share ahead of Wall Street IPO

The Guardian: Mergers & Acquisitions

British tech firm valued at $52.3bn before highly anticipated flotation on Nasdaq by private owner SoftBank The British chip designer Arm has secured a $52.3bn (£41.9bn) valuation in its initial public offering (IPO), before its highly anticipated return to the stock market in New York on Thursday.

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Considerations for Dual-Class Companies Contemplating M&A Transactions

The Harvard Law School Forum

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. Prominent dual-class companies include Alphabet, Meta Platforms, Snap and Lyft.

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2024 M&A Outlook After a Rough Year for Deal Makers

The New York Times: Banking

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.

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How do Banks Make Money? Explanation, Examples

Peak Frameworks

When Facebook went public in 2012, it needed an investment bank to handle the Initial Public Offering (IPO). Capital Buffer: Regulatory bodies require banks to maintain a certain level of capital to ensure they can weather economic downturns. Many banks had extended loans to customers who couldn’t pay them back.

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Cooley’s 2022 Life Sciences M&A Year in Review

Cooley M&A

But it wasn’t all carve outs and concerned investors – even with the headwinds in the industry and beyond, there were still several traditional public M&A deals involving biotechnology or medical device companies, as large pharmaceutical companies continued to have cash to deploy for acquisitions. Let’s dig in.

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