Cooley M&A

JANUARY 30, 2024

Activist target profile: Top flags for tech and healthcare companies Activists are stock pickers – generally building a position at a target company only if they can drive meaningful risk-adjusted returns. Software companies Citrix, Zendesk and Anaplan each being sold to private equity sponsors after activist campaigns in 2022.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 23, 2024

Complex and novel transaction structures for the sector also were a prominent result of the market and regulatory environment, with reverse mergers remaining a fixture and stock-for-stock deals and take-private transactions led by private equity sponsors entering the scene. billion.

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M&A Mergers and Acquisitions Pharmaceutical Acquisitions 52

Peak Frameworks

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Loan Origination or Service Fees: This is a one-time fee charged by the bank when initiating a new loan, serving as a setup fee for the loan process. This can be trading on behalf of their clients (like when you buy a stock through a bank's brokerage service) or proprietary trading where banks invest their own money.

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Banking Bank Proprietary Trading Investment Banking 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

However, deal activity fizzled in the second half of 2022, as high inflation, aggressive anti-inflation monetary policies, geopolitical instability, assertive antitrust regulators and tightening financing markets depressed target valuations, reduced strategic acquirer confidence and sidelined private equity sponsor buyers. trillion. [2]

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M&A Mergers and Acquisitions Private Equity Mergers 52

Focus Investment Banking

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Beginning in 2020, there was a wave of announcements for private equity firms entering the car wash industry. It seemed like every month there was news that private equity firm “ABC” acquired or invested in car wash chain “XYZ” with a plan to grow rapidly. What comes next?

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