JD Supra: Mergers

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

By: Troutman Pepper

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JD Supra: Mergers

AUGUST 13, 2024

A recent wave of state legislation is changing the course of healthcare transactions, and organizations (particularly private equity-backed organizations) that engage in mergers and acquisitions in the healthcare industry should prepare for increased scrutiny. By: BakerHostetler

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JD Supra: Mergers

MAY 18, 2023

Tech valuations fell through the second half 2022 and M&A in the sector shifted gears producing a rise in lower-value deals, particularly among private equity (PE) firms.

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JD Supra: Mergers

AUGUST 15, 2024

private equity investors has reached an all-time high, and with capital on the sideline ready to deploy, pressure to get deals done is on the rise. With that backdrop, navigating the healthcare M&A landscape continues to be increasingly challenging, especially with an ever-evolving regulatory landscape. Although the U.S.

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JD Supra: Mergers

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In recent years, the landscape of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) financing in private equity (PE) has experienced significant changes. Rising costs of debt and fluctuating availability have compelled PE firms to reassess their financing strategies. By: Bennett Jones LLP

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JD Supra: Mergers

MARCH 6, 2025

Professional services firms remain highly sought after by private equity (PE) investors. As of February 2025, the M&A landscape is showing promising signs of resurgence, with expectations of increased deal activity throughout the year. By: Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

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Midaxo

AUGUST 2, 2023

The most recent Transaction Advisors Institute (TAI) M&A conference was held at the University of Chicago in late June and covered topics ranging from current challenges impacting complex transactions to innovative methods to improve deal performance. Key M&A Takeaways for Q2 2023 1.

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Deal Lawyers

MAY 7, 2024

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know I’ve got a soft spot for M&A history. That’s why this CLS Blue Sky Blog discussing a new article on the history of private equity caught my eye.

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How2Exit

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

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OfficeHours

JUNE 6, 2023

The private equity industry has experienced significant growth in recent years, leading to a highly competitive job market for aspiring professionals, particularly at the associate level. Below, I will provide a comprehensive guide on how to stand out in the competitive private equity associate job market.

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JD Supra: Mergers

APRIL 8, 2024

The National Security Division (NSD) of the Department of Justice announced a new self-disclosure policy on March 7, 2024 (M&A Policy) that impacts corporations, private equity firms, and venture capital firms and their merger and acquisition activities. By: Allen & Overy LLP

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TechCrunch: M&A

DECEMBER 25, 2023

It was a slow year in enterprise technology M&A, and the total was the second lowest since we started compiling the data in 2018. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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JD Supra: Mergers

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Antin Infrastructure Partners[1] that a private equity sponsor could walk away from its agreement to acquire a company for $250 million because a $215,000 ownership claim by an ex-employee constituted a breach of the sellers’ bring-down condition.

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JD Supra: Mergers

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Below is his conversation with Jordan Gerber, a Managing Director at Caber Hill Advisors, an M&A advisory firm that focuses on helping privately-held, middle-market businesses transact with strategic or private-equity-backed buyers. By: Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

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JD Supra: Mergers

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The CTA reporting obligations also impact due diligence for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and in-house formation of new entities. By: McDermott Will & Emery

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Private Equity Info

JANUARY 16, 2024

Private Equity Info is a valuable resource for private equity firms seeking to enhance seal sourcing, monitor competitor deal flow activities, and build a robust executive recruiting network, while working more efficiently with advanced M&A search tools.

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TechCrunch: M&A

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Zuora, a company selling software to help businesses manage their subscription-based services, has agreed to be acquired by private equity firms GIC and Silver Lake for $1.7 It’ll take Zuora, which is currently publicly traded, private.

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Deal Lawyers

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

You might think that with 2023’s challenging M&A environment, PE fund employees would be experiencing a big compensation hit. In fact, this excerpt says that those folks are seeing double-digit increases in their pay: The median total cash compensation for all levels of private equity employees […]

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JD Supra: Mergers

JUNE 1, 2023

The trio explore current instabilities in the market with respect to deal flow, valuation issues, and emerging risks.

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JD Supra: Mergers

JUNE 16, 2023

Hosts Lynda Bennett and Eric Jesse build on their recent discussion with Lowenstein M&A Chair and Transactions & Advisory Group co-Chair Marita Makinen about the current state of play in the M&A and private equity space.

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OfficeHours

JULY 18, 2023

In the pursuit of attractive equity returns, private equity firms have developed numerous innovative strategies beyond typical leveraged buyouts and take-private transactions. As it happens, this is an industry that has experienced a significant amount of private equity-backed roll-up activity.

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Deal Lawyers

AUGUST 15, 2024

According to a recent PitchBook article, strategic buyers are increasingly willing to pay through the nose for assets held by private equity funds – and a lot of those funds are increasingly looking to strategic buyers to supply an off-ramp for their investments.

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JD Supra: Mergers

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Join us for a lively 30-minute discussion where our head of transactional insurance and the head of our private equity practice discuss top trends in M&A and PE.

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JD Supra: Mergers

MAY 29, 2024

The Canadian market has seen take-private transactions outpace initial public offerings recently, with public companies having an aggregate market capitalization of approximately C$12.5 billion “going private” in 2023 alone.

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JD Supra: Mergers

JULY 25, 2024

In this special edition of Bennett Jones' quarterly M&A update, we look at deal activity and the investment climate in Canada with a focus on the Québec market. By: Bennett Jones LLP

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JD Supra: Mergers

OCTOBER 17, 2024

To help businesses, investors, and deal professionals better understand the evolving M&A market, Rob Connolly – a partner in and leader of LP’s Corporate Practice Group – shares a series of conversations with M&A experts. Robert has over 20 years of investment banking and private equity.

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Deal Lawyers

JULY 12, 2024

The fourth quarter of 2023 saw an uptick in global M&A activity that’s continued through the second quarter of 2024, but until recently, Private Equity didn’t appear to participate in the rebound. According to a new PitchBook report on PE deal activity, that started to change in the second quarter.

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TechCrunch: M&A

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Website builder Squarespace is no longer a publicly traded company, after private equity firm Permira procured all remaining common stock in the firm. Permira first revealed plans to acquire Squarespace back in May, offering shareholders in the NYSE-traded company $44 per share — this equated to an equity valuation of $6.6

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JD Supra: Mergers

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have been common in the U.S. Within the subset of M&A that are acquisitions, buyers are bifurcated into two primary categories defined by the motivation for the acquisition: financial versus strategic.

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OfficeHours

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Learn more from our leading Private Equity Course! Is Private Equity Right for You? To know if the buyside is right for you, let’s start with a textbook understanding of “What is private equity?” To know if the buyside is right for you, let’s start with a textbook understanding of “What is private equity?”

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JD Supra: Mergers

MAY 3, 2024

Last week on April 23, 2024, the FTC adopted a final rule that would effectively ban non-compete agreements in the context of employment relationships when the rule becomes effective on September 4, 2024, absent a stay or injunctive relief. The rule would render unenforceable a broad array of employment-based non-competition agreements.

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Global Banking & Finance

AUGUST 8, 2024

Regarding mergers and acquisitions (M&A), private equity continues to show robust interest in acquiring lower middle market (LMM) companies. While large M&A transaction volume fell in the first half of 2024, the allure of LMM acquisitions remains high.

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Beyond M&A

MAY 18, 2023

Technology due diligence varies when performed by two major players in the field: Private Equity (PE) firms and Strategic Corporate Buyers. Private Equity: A Thorough Approach to Technology Due Diligence Especially when entering a new industry, PE firms typically conduct a more rigorous and exhaustive technology due diligence process.

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Private Equity Info

JULY 10, 2023

Private equity firms collectively acquire thousands of companies every year. Platform acquisitions therefore signal that an industry may experience accelerated M&A activity and investment by private equity firms.

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How2Exit

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

He has had the honor of serving as president and CEO of three national private equity-backed service companies over the past 21 years. The private equity world has changed drastically since Adam first started. Adam was recruited to join this industry and he was initially unfamiliar with the concept of private equity.

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Deal Lawyers

OCTOBER 24, 2024

According to Dykema’s “20th Annual M&A Outlook Survey”, the big stories for 2025 are the burgeoning use of AI in the deal process and an expectation that private equity will lead a resurgence in deals next year.

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TechCrunch: M&A

MAY 6, 2024

As DocuSign reportedly explores a sale to private equity, it’s acquiring a company itself. On Monday, DocuSign (which now prefers to go by Docusign, with a lowercase “S,” a PR rep from the company tells me) announced that it’s buying Lexion, a contract workflow automation startup, for $165 million.

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