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Novo Banco shareholders agree to unblock dividends, pave way for sale

Global Banking & Finance

LISBON (Reuters) – The three owners of Portugal’s fourth-largest bank Novo Banco have agreed to lift a ban on dividend payouts, paving the way for its potential sale or an initial public offering in 2025, the finance minister was quoted as saying on Friday.

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Figma in Talks With Bankers to Explore an I.P.O. This Year

The New York Times: Mergers, Acquisitions and Dive

The design tech company is exploring a public offering after regulators stymied its $20 billion sale to the software giant Adobe in 2023.

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Croatian food retailer Studenac plans Warsaw, Zagreb IPO

Global Banking & Finance

GDANSK (Reuters) -Croatian food retailer Studenac is planning an initial public offering with plans to list on the stock exchanges of Warsaw and Zagreb, the company said on Thursday. The offer will consist of new shares and the sale of existing shares by current shareholders.

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Arm, the Chip Designer, Files for an I.P.O. Expected to Be Among the Largest

The New York Times: Mergers, Acquisitions and Dive

filing means Arm can begin to gauge investor interest, which will be critical to the share sale.

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M&A Blog #12 – sell-side acquisition (preparation)

Francine Way

Many of these causes have their equivalences to the reasons behind the sale of a company (also known as a divestiture): Liquidity: As the equity holding period matured, investors (private equity funds behind companies) will look to sell. Once a sale has been decided, the process to look for a new owner is pretty well established.

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Women founders lose more when selling equity stakes

Growth Business

Exits – the sale of a majority stake or an initial public offering – by female owners sustained its increase in 2022, rising to 171 compared with 147 in the previous year. In the rankings, frontrunner Starling Bank is followed by children’s prepaid bank card and app, gohenry, and luxury goods sales platform, Lyst.

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Exit Strategies for PE Investors

OfficeHours

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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