Successful Acquisitions

JUNE 27, 2023

Will Cava Going Public Set the Table for Other IPOs? By David Braun, Founder and CEO, Capstone Strategic When Washington DC based restaurant chain Cava became a publicly traded company recently, it bucked a trend that has lasted nearly two years, a notable absence of American IPOs.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

DECEMBER 4, 2024

But this started changing in the 2010s and early 2020s as team values skyrocketed and billionaires, sovereign wealth funds , and sports private equity firms all jumped into the sector. SPAC IPOs for esports companies were “hot” for a short period in 2021, but they seem to have died off by now. Can teams carry debt?

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Cooley M&A

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

government shutdown disrupting the market for IPOs, Brexit uncertainty, natural disasters and various other crises, cross-border M&A activity momentum continues. In what remains largely a low organic growth environment, deals were being funded by the record levels of dry powder held by private equity and cash piles repatriated by U.S.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

APRIL 10, 2024

Amidst the miserable deal environment of the past few years, there has been one bright spot: sports private equity. Over two-thirds of NBA teams have a private equity connection or investment , and all major U.S. Table Of Contents Sports Private Equity Defined Why Did Private Equity Suddenly “Get Interested” in Sports?

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The Deal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Sloan’s first career was in entertainment, as he was the chairman of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., Sloan still sits on the board of Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. And sales of companies to investor Ron Perelman and private equity firms KKR & Co. trying to bring the Hollywood studio back from the dead.

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Cooley M&A

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Carve out tech acquisitions also continued to be attractive to strategic and private equity buyers, with GTCR’s acquisition of a majority stake in Worldpay from FIS for up to $18.5 Private equity activity accounted for only 27% of tech M&A in 2023, a six-year low (and a substantial decrease from the 2021 record of 36%).

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