Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 18, 2024

In that environment, very few firms sought IPOs, and there was a major slowdown in overall exits, whether private or public. And will that mean that some of the privately held management consulting firms or other professional services companies will choose an IPO this year? But those companies have been public for more than 20 years.

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Global Banking & Finance

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

(Reuters) -Payments firm Klarna began the process of going public for a second time in three years despite a sharp drop in its valuation, making it the largest Swedish company to float its shares in the U.S. since Spotify’s listing in 2018. The buy now, pay later (BNPL) company said on Tuesday it had confidentially […]

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Software Equity Group

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The difference pays off in higher valuations: Companies that can retain and grow within their customer bases, particularly in the face of a recession, are rewarded with higher multiples. In this article, we will explore NRR in depth, examining its role in public software companies and sharing takeaways for leaders and executives.

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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. Valuation Certainty.

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How2Exit

APRIL 8, 2024

rn Episode Summary: rn In this episode of the How2Exit podcast, host Ronald Skelton welcomes Dominic Wells to discuss the landscape of business acquisitions, particularly in the context of a rapidly evolving market influenced by concerns around AI, economic stability, and business valuations. rn "There's a lot of attractive opportunities.

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Razorpay

JULY 27, 2023

Investment banking is a branch of banking that organizes and enables large, complex financial transactions for businesses, like mergers, IPOs or underwriting. 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.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

JANUARY 24, 2024

They invest when companies already have revenue (like PE firms), but they do so by purchasing minority stakes , holding them, and selling in an IPO or M&A exit (like VC firms). Specifically, should we invest €60 million at a pre-money valuation of €1.2 new shares get created). multiple and 30% IRR?

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Cooley M&A

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Cooper highlighted trends in market activity, deal structuring and challenges facing buyers and sellers – including antitrust scrutiny, shareholder activism, valuation gaps and a continued, but potentially subsiding, backdrop of market instability. View the full video here.

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Growth Business

JULY 26, 2023

Between these funding rounds there’s typically a three-times change in valuation. “In In the early stages, [the valuation is] driven by the team, product and market; in the later stages it is driven by revenue numbers,” Kanji explains. Companies can look to raise between £15m and £100m at this stage with a valuation of over £200m.

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Growth Business

JULY 17, 2024

Typically they take a share in the business in return for their investment, and because of this tend to take more interest in the business, often using their experience and expertise to enhance the success of the concern they have invested in. Instead, investors become partial owners of the business and share in its profits and losses.

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Cooley M&A

MARCH 22, 2023

For UK companies, structuring the deal as a share purchase agreement with all shareholders signing up to the transaction or as a scheme of arrangements – which requires majority shareholder approval (50% by headcount and 75% by value of votes represented in a shareholder meeting) – are the preferred routes. While the U.S.

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Wall Street Mojo

JANUARY 17, 2024

read more like investors, shareholders Shareholders A shareholder is an individual or an institution that owns one or more shares of stock in a public or a private corporation and, therefore, are the legal owners of the company. The ownership percentage depends on the number of shares they hold against the company's total shares.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Investment Banking: Deals The basic difference is that in “investment banking” groups, such as technology , TMT , healthcare , or consumer retail , you work on various deal types: sell-side and buy-side M&A, leveraged buyouts, IPOs, follow-on offerings, and bond issuances. or debt offerings (investment-grade or high-yield bonds).

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Mergers and Inquisitions

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Operating metrics and valuation multiples , especially for the assets and companies that are the most different (see below). So, even if you’re advising entire companies, you must still be familiar with asset-level modeling and valuation and how an entire portfolio works. What Do You Do as an Analyst or Associate?

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Mergers and Inquisitions

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Technical Questions – You could get standard questions about accounting and valuation or VC-specific questions about cap tables, key metrics in your industry, or how to value startups. Q: Tell me about the current IPO, M&A, and VC funding markets. Q: Which current startup would you invest in?

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Peak Frameworks

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A shareholder is an individual or entity that owns shares or stock in a corporation. Types of Shareholders: Common Shareholders : These individuals hold common shares, entitling them to voting rights and dividends. company to hit a $1 trillion valuation , it directly benefited shareholders.

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Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 3, 2024

Cava opened the IPO window and showed that a good company can go public in any market. While the uptick in M&A activity was a positive for 2023, some deals reflected adjusted expectations from sellers on valuations. a share, below its 52-week high and at only a slight premium on its trading price.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

MAY 24, 2023

They have their investment thesis and valuation, and the earnings announcement is the event that unlocks value… …but this is not what “event-driven” means in most cases. But if we’re wrong, and the spin-off doesn’t happen or gets done at a lower valuation, the parent company’s share price would fall by only 10%.”

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Francine Way

JULY 8, 2017

PE funds typically have 4-to-7-years ownership windows for an investment and look for an exit at the end of that period through a sale or an IPO (initial public offering). Peaked market valuations: When market cycle peaks or an industry fully matures, it may be advantageous for shareholders to cash out.

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Software Equity Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

While significant tax differences exist among them, C Corps, S Corps, and LLCs share some standard features to know before digging into comparison details. Most notably, only C Corp shares qualify for the QSBS exclusion that lets you shelter up to $10M of capital gains from federal taxes. C Corp vs. S Corp vs. LLC: How Do They Compare?

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Mergers and Inquisitions

JULY 12, 2023

They want a $2 million seed investment at a $20 million post-money valuation, meaning that we (the VCs) will own 10% if we invest. Here’s a summary of the different stages: Since the asking valuation is $20 million, we can reframe this case study as: “Could this company potentially reach 100x that valuation, or $2 billion?

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Software Equity Group

MARCH 21, 2023

Equity: Minority Financing Equity financing involves selling a portion of company ownership through shares to raise capital and have the funds needed to execute your vision. Equity: Majority Financing The equity option SEG advises SaaS companies on is majority financing, when you sell more than 50% of company shares to an investor or buyer.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

MARCH 13, 2024

This style is about purchasing minority stakes in cash-flow-negative-but-high-growth companies that want to scale and eventually go public or sell (think: Uber or Airbnb before their IPOs). Valuations are high, the returns depend on future growth, and deals are for primary capital , i.e., new cash the business needs.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 23, 2024

Strained access to public markets and funding The IPO market remained relatively inactive in 2023, leading many life sciences companies looking to raise funds to turn to other exit strategies. Additional major acquisitions of 2023 included Pfizer’s acquisition of Seagen for $43 billion and Merck’s acquisition of Prometheus for $10.8

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Mergers and Inquisitions

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This sector is the most different in terms of valuation and technical analysis because of nuances around licensing, player salaries, and different revenue streams. Be prepared to discuss a recent sports deal (ideally involving a team or league) and have a rough idea of the trends, drivers, and valuation differences (see below).

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Cooley M&A

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Companies lacking cash turned to M&A to provide liquidity, while companies with cash on hand were able to capitalize on depressed valuations and undertake strategic transactions.

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How2Exit

JUNE 10, 2024

Throughout his career, he has been instrumental in underwriting IPOs for family-held businesses and tracking the evolution of private equity. With an illustrious career that started in the early '80s, Michael shares his journey from working in the Senate to becoming a leading expert in mergers and acquisitions.

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M&A Leadership Council

JUNE 12, 2023

We had a chance to discuss cybersecurity and IT due diligence with M&A Leadership Council’s presenters at our various events, and we are pleased to share portions of this discussion with you below. Second, impact to deal valuation or terms. MH: We often talk about due diligence findings in three successive phases.

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M&A Leadership Council

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

We recently had a chance to discuss cybersecurity and IT due diligence with M&A Leadership Council’s presenters at our various events, and we are pleased to share portions of this discussion with you below. Second, impact to deal valuation or terms. MH: We often talk about due diligence findings in three successive phases.

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Cooley M&A

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Private equity slowed but not stopped by financing environment Despite record amounts of dry powder accumulating for sponsors, high financing costs, persistent valuation gaps and a closed tech IPO market led to a significant decrease in private equity M&A activity in 2023.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 22, 2021

The initial offer for €39 per share was not well received by Qiagen shareholders, who believed that Qiagen’s equity was worth substantially more than the offered price due to the company’s involvement in the development of COVID-19 tests and related products. Earnouts Remain Popular – and Difficult.

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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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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 20, 2022

Midsize pharmaceutical buyers pursuing opportunistic acquisition strategies, with robust capital markets and high valuations having limited the pool of attractive assets available in recent years. These players have looked further afield to add new capabilities and pipeline assets. DeSPAC transactions also hit an all? time highs in 2021.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Reference any deals you’ve worked on that required analysis of these points and talk about how they affected the valuation or client’s decisions (this is more grounded than just saying, “I like high-growth companies!”). Exits Up Slightly But Still Poor – M&A activity has ticked up modestly, but the IPO market is still mostly shut.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

MARCH 5, 2025

In technology, as a startup keeps raising capital, it normally does so at gradually higher valuations as its customers, users, and revenue grow. But in biotech, companies valuations often remain close to their total capital raised until much later in the process (i.e., Short LQDA, Long UTHR: This works if you have the opposite view.

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Cooley M&A

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The tech deal floodgates still havent opened, as persistent valuation mismatches, a still (mostly) closed tech IPO market, stiff competition and worldwide regulatory scrutiny continue to weigh on activity, particularly for VC-backed exits and mega deals. billion acquisition of Altair, IBMs pending $6.4 So is tech M&A back?

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