Focus Investment Banking

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The benefits of going public are significant. 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. So over the last 30 years, fewer and fewer companies have been going public. Today, the number of U.S.

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Cooley M&A

MARCH 1, 2019

Exiting an investment is an inherently uncertain process. Even where pre-IPO holders are able to participate in a hybrid primary-secondary IPO, the transaction will not serve as a complete exit for pre-IPO holders since new investors will ensure that they retain significant skin in the game.

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MergersCorp M&A International

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The firm aims to facilitate smoother transactions and enhance operational efficiencies for these investment vehicles, which have gained immense popularity over the past few years. The post MergersCorp Expands Services to SPAC Companies Amid Growing Market Demand appeared first on MergersCorp M&A International | Investment Banking.

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Cooley M&A

OCTOBER 29, 2020

is the increased frequency at which SPAC IPOs are occurring. As reflected in Chart 1 , 102 SPAC IPOs have been announced this year as of September 18, 2020—almost double the number of SPAC IPOs in all of last year (and more than double the number of SPAC IPOs in 2018). SPAC vs. IPO. A distinct feature of SPAC 3.0

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The TRADE

JULY 11, 2023

To help boost the attractiveness of the UK’s financial services sector, the UK government revealed last night that it had accepted all recommendations from Rachel Kent’s UK Investment Research Review, published yesterday. We see this proposal as a progressive step, with its success dependent on securing appropriate funding.”

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Mergers and Inquisitions

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This partially explains why sports investment banking has become a hot field, with JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs launching their own sports coverage groups. We’ll do a full breakdown of the sector here, but as usual, we need to start with the definitions, trends, and drivers: Table Of Contents What is Sports Investment Banking?

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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. Novartis announced plans to spin off its generics and biosimilars division into a publicly traded stand-alone company. Let’s dig in.

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Software Equity Group

OCTOBER 22, 2024

WATCH NOW : Craft a Winning Pricing Strategy to Maximize ARR Growth and Valuation Net Retention in Public Software Companies: Insights from the SEG SaaS Index We recently began tracking net retention information in our SEG SaaS Index , which tracks the performance of 120+ publicly traded software companies.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 22, 2021

2020 was also a blockbuster year for special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) activity, as 247 SPAC IPOs raised more than $75 billion (a 525% increase compared to the amount raised by SPAC IPOs in 2019) [3]. Creative deal terms and financing arrangements were also attractive aspects of SPAC deals as compared to their IPO cousin.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 20, 2022

A survey conducted at the beginning of 2021 found that 61% of surveyed life sciences executives believed they had overperformed on digital transformation during the pandemic relative to their competitors and 67% expected to increase that investment. [2] billion in a bid to acquire cutting edge research capabilities. time highs in 2021.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

Some sponsors, while unable to present compelling take-private proposals to targets, have deployed capital in private investments in public equity (PIPEs) of public targets, marketing these investments as both a vote of confidence for the incumbent board and much-needed liquidity to help the target weather the downturn.

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Focus Investment Banking

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

McKessons acquisition of PRISM Vision Group is an important milestone for private equitys investments in optometry practices. At the same time, there has always been uncertainty about the ultimate home for these assets, since private equity does not keep its investments forever.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 22, 2025

This approach, combining M&A and initial public offering (IPO) preparations on parallel tracks, allows companies to maximize optionality in an uncertain market. Of course, the targets leverage in the M&A track of a dual-track process inherently increases when the IPO track is a viable strategy.

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