Cooley M&A

APRIL 1, 2022

Yesterday, the SEC voted, three to one, to propose new rules and amendments regarding SPACs, shell companies, the use of projections in SEC filings and a rule addressing the status of SPACs under the Investment Company Act of 1940. The proposal arrives in the context of calls from various corners, including from SEC Chair Gary Gensler and former Acting Corp Fin Director John Coates, to treat SPACs as an alternative method of conducting an IPO under the SEC’s policy framework.

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McCombie Group

MARCH 31, 2022

This article was originally published in Forbes. Business owners are often intimidated by the mystique and the limited information available about private equity (PE) firms and how they operate. The goal of this article is to help explain their mechanics and typical strategy. PE buyers are neither inherently better or worse for sellers, they just… The post The Alchemy Of Private Equity Explained appeared first on McCombie Group.

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Sica Fletcher

MARCH 31, 2022

As the leading strategic advisor to the insurance brokerage industry, Sica | Fletcher advises on substantially more transactions than any other advisor in the industry. In our strategic advisory business on the buy-side and sell-side, we have advised on nearly 400 closed transactions over the past three years. We are delighted to announce that we have aggregated this data into the most comprehensive study in the history of our industry on multiples paid in insurance agency and brokerage acquisit

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M&A Leadership Council

MARCH 29, 2022

. 7 Key Integration Initiatives and Objectives to Consider. By Mark Herndon, Chairman of M&A Leadership Council. The acquisition of Tiffany & Co. (TIF) by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH) was not technically a hostile takeover, but given the outright insults, threats, lawsuits, back-channel dealings, and portended government intervention – it certainly could not have been more hostile.

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Cooley M&A

MARCH 30, 2022

Last week, the SEC issued a number of new CDIs related primarily to M&A transactions, including Forms 8-K, communications under Rule 14a-12, and, in the context of de-SPAC transactions, the Rule 14e-5 prohibition of purchases outside of a tender offer. To learn more about these updates, please see the recent post on Cooley PubCo.

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Deal Law Wire

MARCH 29, 2022

Cannabis-related cross-border transactions have become more creative since the initial wave of transactions that occurred post-legalization in Canada. Changes in the US federal law enforcement policy, coupled with the Toronto Stock Exchange (the TSX ) and the TSX Venture Exchange (the TSXV ) clarifying their positions on listed issuers that are involved in marijuana-related activities in the US, may have played a part in the transaction structures that we are now seeing.

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Cooley M&A

MARCH 29, 2022

The corporate sector’s approach to environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues – or “ESG” (the shorthand by which they are commonly referred) – has risen in prominence in recent years as investors have become increasingly socially conscious. It’s clear that what was once just an industry buzzword is here to stay, and companies must do more than pay lip service to ESG issues to satisfy critical investors.

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