Fri.Mar 28, 2025

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SPAC Perspective: What Do We Do About Cayman?

JD Supra: Mergers

Cayman continues to be a hot topic among SPACs. It comes up in almost every conversation I have about SPACs and de-SPACs. My clients are asking: Should they incorporate in the Cayman Islands and then remain there after their business combination?

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Elon Musk Says He Has Sold X to xAI

The New York Times: Mergers, Acquisitions and Dive

Mr. Musk said the deal valued xAI, his artificial intelligence start-up, at $80 billion, and X at $30 billion.

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Guide to Canadian Public Mergers and Acquisitions

JD Supra: Mergers

From navigating relevant legislation and regulators to choosing the right deal structure, there are many factors to consider in Canadian M&A deals. Our guide addresses the key challenges and questions businesses may encounter when planning a public M&A deal in the Canadian market.

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Charlie Javice Found Guilty of Defrauding JPMorgan in $175 Million Acquisition

The New York Times: Banking

Federal prosecutors convinced a jury that Ms. Javice faked much of her customer list before selling her start-up, Frank, to the bank.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Food Venture Financing News - Weekly Issue No. 229

JD Supra: Mergers

Food Venture Financing Trends - Fresh Del Monte, a fresh fruit and vegetable grocer, is buying a majority stake in Avolio, positioning itself in the growing avocado oil market, which is expected to expand from $637 million to a $1.2 billion business by 2032.

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Tech could see a rebound soon. How to play it while hedging against potential downside

CNBC: Investing

March Madness (in markets) is hopefully coming to an end.

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Deutsche Bank slashes Tesla price target as first-quarter deliveries come under pressure

CNBC: Investing

Deutsche Bank sees "material downside" to Tesla's current-quarter deliveries.

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Juntos - Março de 2025

JD Supra: Mergers

Agncia antitruste inicia ao contra prestadores de servios de sade. A autoridade antitruste da Argentina, a Comisso Nacional de Defesa da Concorrncia (Comisin Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia, CNDC), iniciou uma investigao sobre diversas organizaes de servios de sade para apurar possveis prticas de preos combinados. A investigao foi iniciada aps a adoo de medidas cautelares contra os prestadores que ordenaram a reverso de certos reajustes de preo.

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Advice from a CCIE: How to Carve Your Path to Cisco Certification Success

Cisco: M&A

Discover the journey of a CCIE Service Provider certification holder and learn his secrets to Cisco certification success.

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Juntos - March 2025

JD Supra: Mergers

Antitrust agency brings action against health service providers. Argentinas antitrust enforcer, the National Commission for Competition Defense (CNDC), has opened an investigation of several health services organizations relating to potential concerted pricing practices. The investigation follows the issuance of preliminary injunctions against the providers that ordered the rollback of certain price increases.

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Top 3 Banking Secrets to Stay Relevant with Gen Z Consumers

Speaker: Brian Muse-McKenney, Chief Revenue Officer & Matt Simester, Cards and Payments Expert

In today’s world of social media, dating apps, and remote work, businesses risk becoming irrelevant (or getting "ghosted") if they fail to meet the evolving needs of Gen Z consumers. Credit cards with flexible payment options, especially for young adults with little-to-no credit history, are a particularly important and valuable solution for this generation.

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Joel Greenblatt defends value investing: It's not difficult to beat the market

CNBC: Investing

"We're literally valuing businesses, like we're private equity investors buying the whole business," Joel Greenblatt said.

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Corporate Debtors and Transactions at an Undervalue–Lessons From the UK Supreme Court: El-Husseini and Another v Invest Bank PSC

JD Supra: Mergers

The UK Supreme Courts recent decision in El-Husseini and another v Invest Bank PSC [2025] UKSC 4 has clarified the circumstances in which section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (the Act) provides protection against attempts by debtors to defeat their creditors and make themselves judgment-proof..

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Short-term Treasury prices are set to go higher based on the charts, says Carter Worth

CNBC: Investing

The 2-year Treasury note yield is judged to be headed lower in the days and weeks ahead.

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M&A Mortgage Tech

JD Supra: Mergers

Join us for a new episode of Financial Services Focus, with partner Lauren Pryor, co-lead of the Financial Services Product Team, and Brad Peterson, a partner at the firms Chicago office and member of the Technology & IP Transactions practice. They are joined by John Guzzo and Ted Conway, Managing Directors at KBW, to dive into the evolving world of mortgage servicing technology trends.

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Enhance Customer Value: Unleash Your Data’s Potential

The complexity of financial data, the need for real-time insight, and the demand for user-friendly visualizations can seem daunting when it comes to analytics - but there is an easier way. With Logi Symphony, we aim to turn these challenges into opportunities. Our platform empowers you to seamlessly integrate advanced data analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting into your applications, transforming raw data into actionable insights.

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These are analysts' favorite S&P 500 stocks as the second quarter approaches

CNBC: Investing

With the current quarter winding down, there are some stocks that investors should keep an eye on heading into the next period.

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Earnout submissions challenged

JD Supra: Mergers

The High Court has ruled that earn-out calculations, emailed by the buyer to the sellers in relation to a share sale, were not validly communicated. Earnout calculations and notice provisions - Under an earnout provision in a share purchase agreement, the buyer was required to submit its revenue determinations to the sellers. It did so by email. Initially for Year 1 post completion and then for Year 2.

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These tech stocks have 40% upside as long as there’s no recession, says HSBC

CNBC: Investing

The software sector has become much less cyclical and could be a good hedge against uncertainty, HSBC said.

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Juntos - Marzo 2025

JD Supra: Mergers

Agencia antimonopolio toma accin contra proveedores de servicios mdicos. El organismo antimonopolio de Argentina, la Comisin Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia (CNDC), est investigando a varias organizaciones de la industria mdica por supuestas prcticas concertadas, incluyendo fijacin de precios. La investigacin comienza tras la aplicacin de medidas cautelares contra los proveedores, los cuales ordenaron la reversin de ciertos aumentos de precios.

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Predictions You Can Rely On: How Data Drives Successful Financial Forecasting

Speaker: Robbie Bhathal, Founder & CEO, and Matthew Acalin, Head of Credit Intelligence

In today's volatile financial environment, how confident are you in your company’s financial forecasting? To get the most accurate cash predictions that will lead to long-term financial survival, real-time data is critical. Innovative cash management strategies can lead to better credit opportunities, more sustainable growth, and long-term financial prosperity.

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Here are Friday's biggest analyst calls of the day: Netflix, Tesla, Nike, Meta, Disney, Ferrari and more

CNBC: Investing

Here are Friday's biggest calls on Wall Street.

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Delaware Amends Section 220 – Will Scope of ‘Books and Records’ Production Be Limited?

JD Supra: Mergers

On March 25, 2025, the Delaware Legislature enacted Senate Bill 21, significantly amending the Delaware General Corporation Law. Among its notable changes is an effort to narrow document production under Section 220, which governs stockholders access to corporate books and records though questions remain whether a compelling need exception will ultimately swallow the rule.

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Dollar General is a buy as consumers move to trade down, says this strategist

CNBC: Investing

The strategist expects economic growth to slow in the second half of 2025, thanks to a combination of worries centered on tariffs and inflation threats.

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Connecticut and Maine Propose New Restrictions on Private Equity and REITs in Health Care Transactions

JD Supra: Mergers

Since our recent updates, additional bills have been introduced that, if passed, will impact transactions across the healthcare industry. This alert contains an overview of legislation recently introduced in Connecticut and Maine, as well as further anticipated activity in Maine, continuing recent trends among state legislatures this year.

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Deliver Mission Critical Insights in Real Time with Data & Analytics

In the fast-moving manufacturing sector, delivering mission-critical data insights to empower your end users or customers can be a challenge. Traditional BI tools can be cumbersome and difficult to integrate - but it doesn't have to be this way. Logi Symphony offers a powerful and user-friendly solution, allowing you to seamlessly embed self-service analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting directly into your applications.

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Jefferies upgrades this chip stock due to low China exposure compared to peers

CNBC: Investing

The bank upgraded the semiconductor manufacturer to buy from hold.

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Ruling of the German Federal Labor Court on the Invalidity of Expiry Clauses in ESOP/VSOP - Applicability of the Ruling to MEPs

JD Supra: Mergers

On March 19, 2025, the German Federal Labor Court ("BAG") ruled that clauses that qualify as general terms and conditions and stipulate that virtual option rights that are already vested at the time of termination of an employment agreement shall expire with immediate effect ("Expiration Clauses") are inappropriately disadvantageous for the beneficiary and therefore invalid ("Ruling").

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These dividend stocks will benefit from longevity's 'transformational' opportunity, UBS says

CNBC: Investing

The aging population will be a tailwind for the stock market, and two dividend-paying stocks are among the beneficiaries, according to UBS.

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OCC Charts a New Path for FinTech Banking

JD Supra: Mergers

On March 17, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced that the agency granted conditional approval for a leading FinTech company to indirectly acquire a nationally chartered bank, enabling the FinTech company to expand the bank's nationwide lending and deposit-taking activities and to provide a loan origination platform for partner banks.

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Using Data & Analytics for Improving Healthcare Innovation and Outcomes

In the rapidly evolving healthcare industry, delivering data insights to end users or customers can be a significant challenge for product managers, product owners, and application team developers. The complexity of healthcare data, the need for real-time analytics, and the demand for user-friendly interfaces can often seem overwhelming. But with Logi Symphony, these challenges become opportunities.

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Will Stewart Featured in SFBJ on Succession Planning | PCE

PCE

Planning for the future of your business is never easybut its essential. PCE Managing Director Will Stewart recently joined a panel of experts for a featured article in the South Florida Business Journal, sponsored by First American Bank. The conversation focused on a critical question: How can business owners better prepare for succession?

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Transparency In Merger Enforcement: Taking Stock of the Deals That Didn't Bark

JD Supra: Mergers

More than 82% of merger enforcement actions announced by the U.S. antitrust agencies in 2024 involved a litigated challenge (complaint) or the deal being abandoned. But only 17 enforcement actions were reported in totalwell below the number of Second Requests reported by the agencies each year in annual reports to Congress.

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Pactiv Evergreen Inc. Announces Receipt of All Required Regulatory Approvals for Planned Acquisition by Novolex

Global Newswire by Notified: M&A

Pactiv Evergreen Inc. Announces Receipt of All Required Regulatory Approvals for Planned Acquisition by Novolex.

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Massachusetts: Expansion of Oversight Authority — New Notice of Material Change Form for Health Care Transactions

JD Supra: Mergers

The Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (the HPC), an independent state agency that works to improve affordability of health care for residents of the Commonwealth, released Advance Guidance (before finalization of new regulations) for Providers and Provider Organizations considering transactions subject to the HPCs updated Notice of Material Change (MCN) process.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?