Lake Country Advisors

MAY 9, 2025

A clear sense of your company’s market position shapes your negotiation tactics and marketing campaigns since buyers typically seek stable revenue, consistent profits, and a clear growth strategy. While both scenarios require diligent preparation, the middle-market sphere generally offers a more agile negotiation process.

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Focus Investment Banking

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

First, there’s the ability to raise substantial capital by issuing shares to the public in an initial public offering (IPO), as well as secondary offerings. Second, publicly traded companies gain increased visibility, which can enhance their brand image and attract even more customers.

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Cooley M&A

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Unlike prior iterations of SPAC activity and perhaps unsurprising given the increasing number of SPAC IPOs, the panelists noted that companies considering going public by way of a SPAC are often negotiating with multiple SPAC sponsors in the preliminary phase of a potential transaction. Revisiting Governance Documentation.

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Cooley M&A

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In addition, currently public dual-class companies with transfer provisions that do not contain clear carve outs for the delivery of voting agreements in the M&A context should discuss with their advisers the possibility of adopting “clear day” amendments to their charters to include these carve outs. Vote-down termination fee (i.e.,

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Cooley M&A

JULY 9, 2021

Panera Bread was a publicly traded company that JAB Holdings B.V. Key Takeaway : If a buyer is considering prepaying the deal price to appraisal petitioners, the buyer should endeavor to have the petitioners contractually agree to refund any overpayment in the event that fair value is ultimately determined to be less than the deal price.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

This post takes a deeper dive into what we see as the pivotal events and deals that propelled the life sciences industry in 2022, and our view on what to expect looking ahead to 2023. Novartis announced plans to spin off its generics and biosimilars division into a publicly traded stand-alone company.

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Transactional Delights

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

So, all those events in the post-signing period were interesting, but what happened prior to the November 2019 announcement? Well, some events that are pretty illustrative of how the line between a hostile and friendly deal is not always clear during its most interesting phase [5]. In this case, the leak worked in TIF’s favor.

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