OfficeHours

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Initial Public Offering (IPO) One way to exit an investment involves taking the company public through an initial public offering (IPO). An IPO involves offering shares of a privately held company to the public in a new stock issuance.

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Investors IPO Private Equity Initial Public Offering 100

Deal Law Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Retail investors are becoming an increasingly significant source of capital on public markets, and dealmakers should be aware of how this development can impact M&A transactions and the decision to go public. Public Companies. Implications for Dealmakers. Private Companies.

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Focus Investment Banking

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

I still recall the metric that was drilled into me back then: hit $50 million in revenue and a few back-to-back years of profitability and you, too, can go public. The benefits of going public are significant. It turns out that there are fewer public companies of all types across all industries. stock market.

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Private Equity IPO Equities Public Trading 52

Cooley M&A

MARCH 22, 2023

With the US initial public offering markets continuing to remain largely closed, and special purpose acquisition company combinations being costly and complex, there’s a new kid in town for foreign companies looking to go public in the US: reverse mergers. public company shareholder approval.

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Mergers IT Mergers and Acquisitions IPO 52

Cooley M&A

APRIL 5, 2024

Background At the center of this case is investment bank Moelis & Company and the stockholder agreement that it entered into with its founder prior to its initial public offering. The charter provision approach, however, may not work for corporations with a single class of common stock.

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M&A Mergers and Acquisitions Mergers Corporation 52

Cooley M&A

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The rise of founder-led, venture capital-backed companies in recent years has coincided with a surge of companies implementing dual-class share structures in connection with their initial public offerings. In a small number of cases, a class of common stock is offered to the public that has no voting rights at all.

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M&A IPO Shares Mergers and Acquisitions 59

Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

Although there were 104 initial public offerings of biotechnology companies in 2021 that raised nearly $15 billion in funds, 2022 saw only 22 such IPOs collectively raising less than $2 billion. Let’s dig in. Activists may be able to take advantage of high trading volumes to accumulate positions without early detection.

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M&A Mergers and Acquisitions Pharmaceutical Collaboration 40