MergersCorp M&A International

AUGUST 9, 2024

While both hedge funds and private equity are alternatives to traditional investments, they serve different purposes, employ various strategies, and cater to distinct investor profiles. Definitions Hedge Funds : Hedge funds are pooled investment funds that employ a variety of strategies to generate high returns for their investors.

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Wall Street Mojo

JANUARY 17, 2024

A profit and loss (P&L) statement, sometimes called as an income statement, is a financial report that provides investors and outsiders with a financial overview of a company. The P&L outcome plotted on a trendline assists investors in understanding the organization’s performance over time.

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Deal Law Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Under the size of the parties test, the parties, together with their affiliates, must have aggregate assets in Canada or annual gross revenues from sales in, from or into Canada, in excess of C$400 million. It is adjusted annually, and for 2021 the threshold is C$415 million, down from C$428 million in 2020.

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OfficeHours

AUGUST 20, 2023

Private equity involves investing capital directly into private businesses that are not publicly traded on stock exchanges (that would be a hedge fund). As further discussed below, private equity firms raise funds from institutional investors and use these funds to acquire ownership stakes in businesses.

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Cooley M&A

MARCH 1, 2019

A dual-track process reduces the possibility that the vagaries of the stock market and industry-specific dynamics will have a detrimental effect on the overall exit by opening the investment opportunity to public markets as well as financial and strategic investors, with each influenced by the others.

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Focus Investment Banking

AUGUST 6, 2023

ESG isn’t just a matter for large, publicly traded companies. This is particularly true if your partners are publicly traded or foreign-owned. Companies that can demonstrate strong ESG programs are more likely to command greater valuations when it comes to a sale. It can also engender government support.”

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Sun Acquisitions

JULY 21, 2023

It involves analyzing market trends, customer behavior, sales and marketing strategies, and potential growth and expansion. Investor Confidence: For publicly traded companies, due diligence provides transparency and accountability, enhancing investor confidence.

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Software Equity Group

MARCH 18, 2024

Software Equity Group’s expertise becomes invaluable for those whose exit strategy involves seeking majority investment or strategic sale. The SEG SaaS Index helps users conduct their own research on over 100 publicly traded SaaS companies. Knowing what buyers and investors are looking for gives us an edge when negotiating.

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Software Equity Group

DECEMBER 26, 2022

To get the best results, you need to go into the process knowing what your goals are for a sale. With record amounts of deployable capital behind them, private equity (PE) investors account for nearly 60% of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals in tech today. This capital from the PE is specifically earmarked for growth.

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Viking Mergers & Acquisitions

APRIL 17, 2023

Jimmy’s uncle was a lifelong risk-taker who became a Navy fighter pilot and, later, a successful investor. He worked with large publicly traded engineering and technology companies, small privately owned businesses, and several government entities. As a result, he learned the value of consistency, staying the course, and avoiding risk.

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Intrepid Banker Insights

MARCH 28, 2023

An increase in days sales outstanding (DSO) may be a sign that customers are experiencing challenges, an early indicator of liquidity issues down the line. This is important because it may ripple down into how a company’s bank or investor base may view the risk profile when more capital is sought.

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Software Equity Group

MAY 7, 2024

Buyers and investors have adapted to the current markets and prioritized durable and sustainable M&A targets. As for key product categories, SaaS businesses focused on Sales and Marketing led the pack in 2023 with 294 transactions. In 2023, most SaaS M&A deals were led by PE investors.

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Software Equity Group

MAY 8, 2024

Buyers and investors have adapted to the current markets and prioritized durable and sustainable M&A targets. As for key product categories, SaaS businesses focused on Sales and Marketing led the pack in 2023 with 294 transactions. In 2023, most SaaS M&A deals were led by PE investors.

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Software Equity Group

MARCH 13, 2023

While median EV/Revenue multiples declined from 4Q20–1Q22, they still outperformed the median public market multiple, and SaaS M&A deal volume jumped to a new record. Despite the macroeconomic uncertainty, buyers and investors are still willing to pay a premium for mission-critical, recession-resistant companies.

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Software Equity Group

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Public SaaS companies enjoyed an unprecedented run from 2009 through 2021, but last year brought a wave of macroeconomic uncertainty, including rising interest rates, record inflation, supply chain problems, and geopolitical unrest. What is the SEG Index? Companies exceeding 80% surpassed the Index median by 22%.

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Cooley M&A

MARCH 2, 2021

A SPAC is a publicly traded shell company with no underlying operating business that seeks to merge with a target operating company. The combined company benefits from the target’s operations and the liquidity of the SPAC’s publicly traded securities. What is a SPAC. Special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) are on the rise.

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Software Equity Group

JANUARY 31, 2023

It impacts how you go about staging information for a prospective buyer or investor, the timing of your deal, and more. M&A transactions are smart money , meaning the capital involved comes from institutional investors and experienced financial professionals. These firms aren’t relying solely on their own money to make investments.

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Solganick & Co.

APRIL 24, 2024

Note : Solganick has advised on the sale of three Snowflake Partners over the last 24 months; and advised on the sale of 4 additional data analytics firms. Managed Services Providers (MSPs) The managed services provider (MSP) industry saw strong M&A activity in Q1 2024.

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Software Equity Group

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Understanding and optimizing NRR has become crucial for software companies looking to drive sustainable growth and attract buyer and investor interest. In this article, we will explore NRR in depth, examining its role in public software companies and sharing takeaways for leaders and executives. What is Net Revenue Retention Rate?

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Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 17, 2025

As an example, he offered a hypothetical single shop doing $3 million in sales at a 10% EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) margin. For the example, Strandberg used The Boyd Group , which owns Gerber Collision & Glass , as its a publicly traded company. billion, and its adjusted EBITDA was $368.2

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Razorpay

JULY 27, 2023

Investment Banking Services Initial Public Offering (IPO) When a privately-owned business wants to become a publicly traded company, it goes through an IPO , or Initial Public Offering. Here’s more detail into the services that investment banks provide to businesses. How do they do this? Let’s understand with an example.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 22, 2020

billion; Audentes Therapeutics’ sale to Astellas for $3 billion; Ra Pharmaceuticals’ pending sale to UCB for $2.5 billion; and Synthorx’s sale to Sanofi $2.5 billion acquisition of The Medicines Company. Other notable deals that passed the $1 billion mark in 2019 included Vitrolife’s acquisition of Parallabs for £1.9

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Cooley M&A

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In a small number of cases, a class of common stock is offered to the public that has no voting rights at all. Voting agreements in public M&A transactions. Take, for example, the acquisition of Inovalon Holdings, a dual-class company that completed its IPO in 2015, by a consortium of private equity investors.

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Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 10, 2025

They’re doing $3,000,000 in sales at a 10% EBITDA profitability margin. Now say we’re in good fortune here for this example because there is only one Pureplay Collision Group that is publicly traded and we know them as the Boy Group or Gerber Collision and Glass. So let’s talk about taking on investors.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

Amid depressed valuations, biotechnology companies also saw an increasing number of demands from activist investors that in certain cases led to more deal activity. For example, the sale of Horizon Therapeutics to Amgen for approximately $28 billion was the third-largest all-cash transaction in the pharmaceutical sector in history.

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Cooley M&A

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The target’s valuation still needs to be supported by the market, but having sophisticated and credible PIPE investors that support the valuation (as the majority of SPAC 3.0 He also stated that the SEC will be reviewing documentation to ensure that investors are getting the same rigorous disclosure that they would get in an IPO transaction.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

DECEMBER 4, 2024

However, one common point across all the verticals is that IPOs are not common because there aren’t that many publicly traded sports teams, stadiums, or arenas. Potential for Revenue Growth – Can the team monetize more effectively via the sale of additional streaming/broadcast rights?

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

Despite the mixed success of these campaigns, their prevalence has led public company boards to focus on activist preparedness –particularly as private equity sponsors increasingly team up with, or quickly follow, activists advocating for a sale.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 20, 2022

For example, early in 2021, Zimmer Biomet Holdings announced that it would spin off its spine and dental businesses into a new publicly traded company as a way to “optimize resource allocation” among its remaining businesses. closing friction. billion (including earnouts). And, by some measures, almost 75% of private?target

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Focus Investment Banking

DECEMBER 20, 2024

While questions around the ultimate buyers of these organizations have been building, the sale of RCA, the largest retina practice portfolio in the U.S., to a strategic buyer confirms the value retina practices hold for healthcare investors and operators.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 22, 2025

By 2030, more than 190 commercial drugs will lose patent exclusivity , putting at risk $236 billion in Big Pharma sales. As we discussed in Cooleys August 2024 Market Talks, the landscape for IPOs has continued to gain steam over the course of the year, with many companies opting for public offerings to capture investor interest.

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Sidley Shareholder Litigation

MARCH 28, 2025

Five Takeaways from New Complaints Filed in 2024 Plaintiffs filed 44 new class actions against publicly traded life sciences companies in 2024. In 2024, the number dropped to twoone against a company developing a vaccine and the other against a company with an approved vaccine facing poor sales as demand declined.

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