JD Supra: Mergers

AUGUST 8, 2024

Below is his conversation with Gary Grote, Managing Director at Bridgepoint Investment Banking, which focuses on capital raising and M&A advisory solutions. Gary focuses on deals in the healthcare, leveraged finance, financial services, and real estate industries.

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JD Supra: Mergers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Quilam Capital's debt investment in Merchant Money and Fasanara Capital's debt investment in Novicap). We are seeing - Continued availability of growth capital for specialty lenders—SME lenders attract the most capital in the previous 12 months - VC debt cheques (e.g., By: White & Case LLP

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JD Supra: Mergers

OCTOBER 1, 2024

UK & European Financial Services M&A: Sector Trends H2 2023 | H1 2024 — Brokers / Corporate Finance - Mid-market investment banks consolidate at the fastest rate yet—Panmure Gordon & Liberum, Redburn (Europe) & Atlantic Equities and Cenkos Securities & FinnCap Group mergers reshape the City skyline.

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JD Supra: Mergers

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

"We’re currently seeing a lot of follow-on investments into AI. For example, sponsors are making incremental investments into portfolio companies or using portco balance sheet cash and/or stock to finance acquisitions of minority investments in or joint venture transactions with AI-focused companies.

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JD Supra: Mergers

JANUARY 22, 2025

In this survey, we track investment trends as the market slowed for CVC financings. We also analyze a survey of key economic terms of the largest Q3 2024 venture capital investments in which CVC programs either led the round or participated as significant or anchor investors. Only 23.2% By: Morgan Lewis

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JD Supra: Mergers

JANUARY 22, 2025

By: Troutman Pepper Locke

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JD Supra: Mergers

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This fall, Latham’s Investment Funds Practice provided guidance on financing options and considerations for funds and portfolio companies in the second installment of the Private Funds Breakfast Series.

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JD Supra: Mergers

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Food Venture Financing Trends - Nongshim, a South Korean food and beverage company, announced that it is investing $7.4 million in developing foodtech startups and technologies. By: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

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TechCrunch: M&A

AUGUST 20, 2024

X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, looks like a pretty bad investment right about now. As readers might recall, billionaire Elon Musk borrowed $13 billion from Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and five other major banks to help finance the $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, as it was then called.

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JD Supra: Mergers

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The primary purpose of a capital call facility is to provide bridge financing to a fund borrower that may be drawn upon, in lieu of calling capital, to make investments in accordance with the fund’s business purpose.

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JD Supra: Mergers

JUNE 21, 2024

Primary investment grade bond issuance surged in Q1 2024 as investors ramped up exposure to high-quality borrowers in a high interest rate environment. In the US, investment grade corporate borrowers secured US$429.7 billion of financing in Q1 2024; the highest level of quarterly issuance since Q2 2020, according to S&P Global.

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JD Supra: Mergers

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Food Venture Financing Trends - - Ferrara Candy announced that it plans to buy Jelly Belly Candy, the prominent jelly bean business, for an undisclosed amount. Tyson Foods announced that it plans to make a strategic minority investment in Protix, an insect protein startup company. By: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

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JD Supra: Mergers

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Amendments to the UK real estate investment trust (REIT) rules were introduced in the new Finance Bill 2023-2024, which is expected to become law in the summer of 2024.

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JD Supra: Mergers

MAY 22, 2024

McGuireWoods recently held its 20th Annual Healthcare Private Equity and Finance Conference (HCPE Conference) in Chicago. The conference drew more than 1,000 professionals from private equity funds, senior and mezzanine lenders, and investment banks, as well as C-level executives, consultants and principals in the healthcare industry.

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JD Supra: Mergers

MAY 21, 2024

Debt finance plays a key role in all parts of the capital structure for private investment funds and their investors.

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JD Supra: Mergers

JANUARY 18, 2024

14,801/2024 creates infrastructure debentures, changes rules for incentivized debentures and investment funds in the sector, including tax guidelines, and promotes incentives for raising funds through the issuance of debt securities abroad (bonds). New Law No. By: Mayer Brown

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JD Supra: Mergers

MAY 30, 2024

Given the recent growth of the secondaries market in the litigation finance space, Secondary Investors should consider how to best approach their review of potential transactions. In addition to the economics of a given investment, there are key legal issues Secondary Investors should consider. By: Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

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JD Supra: Mergers

JUNE 15, 2023

Therefore, in this report we focus on recent developments that stand to impact healthcare financings. Please see full Report below for more. By: Paul Hastings LLP

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JD Supra: Mergers

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Impact investing has been gaining new prominence recently to respond to the environmental and social challenges that the traditional frameworks of philanthropy alone could not address. Some examples of impact investors include development finance institutions, banks, impact investing firms, family offices, public.

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European Investment Bank

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The European Investment Bank is participating in the 2X Challenge, a global initiative to improve women’s access to quality employment, support their business leadership and to provide them access to finance. Those goals include adhering to criteria that provide a backbone for gender-lens investing.

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JD Supra: Mergers

MAY 23, 2024

As applications and use cases for digital assets and their blockchain infrastructure grow and become more sophisticated, investments and valuations for businesses in these areas have grown as well. The growing number of opportunities have attracted a diverse group of investors and lenders.

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JD Supra: Mergers

APRIL 30, 2024

Though 2023 ended in much the same way as it began, with global geopolitical instability and high interest rates, investment in Québec has remained active, particularly in the Montréal area.

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JD Supra: Mergers

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Moët Hennessy, the luxury wine and spirits producer, announced a minority investment in French Bloom, a nonalcoholic sparkling wine brand. Duckhorn Portfolio, a luxury wine company, announced that it was being acquired by Butterfly Equity, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, for $1.95 billion in a cash transaction.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 10, 2025

MetLife Investment Management (MIM) has reached a definitive agreement to acquire three investment teams and assets managed by Mesirow, an independent financial services firm. As part of the move, MIM is acquiring the high yield and bank loan, strategic fixed income and small-cap equity teams and certain related investment products.

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OfficeHours

MAY 24, 2023

Investment banking is one of the most sought-after careers in the finance world. Investment banking is highly desirable due to its potential for high lifetime earnings, its interesting and impactful work, and it serves as a springboard for a career in finance. Maybe even more important than your major is your GPA.

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OfficeHours

MAY 31, 2023

A lot of young finance professionals are overwhelmed by the number of options they have when it comes to learning materials. Something that distinguishes investment banking interviews from many other first careers is that you’re expected to walk in knowing a lot of things right off the bat. and how our process works.

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How2Exit

MARCH 18, 2024

b' E195: Boopos: Financing Subscription Businesses with Ignacio Villanueva - Watch Here rn rn About the Guest(s): rn Ignacio Villanueva is the VP of Origination of Boopos, a finance company that specializes in providing capital for subscription-based businesses. Don't try to win the system.

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Tyton Partners

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Investing in Tomorrow: Lifetime Value of Financial Education in High School Tyton Partners’ 2024 Investing in Tomorrow research publication focuses on how schools, K-12 providers, and state and local agencies can positively influence the lasting impact of high school financial education on students’ future financial well-being.

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MergersCorp M&A International

DECEMBER 2, 2024

New York, NY – The Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) in New York is excited to announce its strategic partnership with MergersCorp M&A International, an american leading investment banking and advisory firm specializing in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and corporate finance. As the U.S.

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How2Exit

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Duckworth has an extensive background in finance, starting from an unexpected entry into the field from music composition. His career transitioned into investment banking and fractional CFO services, where he developed significant expertise in mergers and acquisitions, particularly roll-ups.

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JD Supra: Mergers

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

This report series examines quarterly trends in life sciences venture investment. Key findings for Q3 2023 include: Life sciences VC deal value in Q3 2023 totaled $7.7 billion, representing an uptick from last quarter across fewer deals. Total deal value has grown each quarter in 2023 for a year-to-date (YTD) total of $21.4

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OfficeHours

MAY 31, 2023

As the era of exclusive video interviews gradually fades and finance professionals return to the office, the significance of mastering body language during in-person interviews cannot be underestimated. In the realm of finance, where long days collaborating with colleagues are the norm, personality and fit hold immense weight.

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JD Supra: Mergers

MARCH 22, 2024

In the European market, many lenders - particularly investment banks - are focused on ensuring that they have recourse to the underlying assets of the fund via their security documents. NAV facilities come in all shapes and sizes and, unlike subscription facilities, there is no standardised collateral package for these kinds of transactions.

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JD Supra: Mergers

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Our Band 1 ranked London TCG team closed over 200 growth financings and tech M&A deals totalling $3bn in 2023 and has dominated the European venture capital tech market for 34. The Series is written by members of our market-leading London Technology Companies Group (TCG), with contributions from other specialists.

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JD Supra: Mergers

AUGUST 29, 2024

These portfolios present challenges for financings, including issues with valuation, enforcement, and liquidation.

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JD Supra: Mergers

MARCH 11, 2025

India's insurance sector is poised for a major transformation following the Finance Minister of Indias February 1, 2025 announcement of a proposal to increase the FDI limit in the sector from 74% to 100%. This development presents opportunities for foreign investors in one of the world's fastest growing insurance markets. By: Mayer Brown

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European Investment Bank

OCTOBER 19, 2023

From chemicals and life sciences to finance and renewable energy, quantum technologies can speed up the development of groundbreaking new products and improve the ways we do things now. Why should we already begin to boost investment into the nascent European quantum industry?

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