Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 18, 2024

stock markets are at or near their all-time highs. The S&P 500 has recently traded near 4800, close to its record at the end of 2021. In that environment, very few firms sought IPOs, and there was a major slowdown in overall exits, whether private or public. But those companies have been public for more than 20 years.

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TechCrunch: M&A

JULY 27, 2023

Upgrade, a provider of personal credit lines and other consumer financial products, today announced that it’s agreed to acquire Uplift, the buy now, pay later (BNPL) vendor, for $100 million in cash and stock. Klarna , once Europe’s most valuable VC-backed company, suffered an 85% valuation cut, from $45.6

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Wall Street Mojo

JANUARY 3, 2024

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Software Equity Group

MARCH 13, 2023

The public markets may have taken a beating, but behind the gloom-and-doom headlines, there was still plenty of good news for private SaaS companies in 2022. On the surface, things looked rough: the Dow Jones, S&P 500, and the NASDAQ all finished the year with significant losses, with tech stocks hit particularly hard.

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RKJ Partners

AUGUST 6, 2017

What is Valuation? Valuation can be simply defined as the process of assigning an estimated dollar amount or range to the worth of an item, good, or service. During preliminary due diligence, the view of valuation is often heavily contingent on the financial information provided by the seller.

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Cooley M&A

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Given that a SPAC is an alternative means to going public, a significant portion of the webinar was dedicated to discussing some of the key differences—and similarities—between a SPAC and a traditional IPO. Valuation Certainty. Competition / Variation. Another feature of SPAC 3.0 is the competition among SPACs for potential targets.

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Wall Street Mojo

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

When listed as publicly traded companies, they mostly become small-cap and micro-cap stocks trading on the exchange. Since the company is new, it is less in valuation, but Ryan is adamant about offering better products and services. In 2022, the company generated an annual revenue of $9 million.

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

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Cooley M&A

MARCH 1, 2019

Even for a thriving business with a viable equity story, committed stakeholders and the right advisers, the final deal terms and valuation are typically guided by factors beyond a company’s control. Stock market forces also make the timing of an eventual outright exit and the final blended valuation of equity sales over time uncertain.

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Software Equity Group

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Strategic buyers These types of buyers run the gamut; they can be publicly traded or privately owned software companies. Due to strategic buyers having synergies and business rationale for making acquisitions, they have historically paid higher valuation multiples than financial buyers.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 22, 2021

Despite dealmaking anxieties in the first half of the year, valuations remained strong, and discount opportunities were few and far between. But given the number of SPACs that went public in 2020 and have yet to announce a business combination (204 of 247), expect to see many more SPAC business combinations in 2021.

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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

JULY 9, 2021

To determine the fair value of Regal’s common stock at the effective time of the merger, the court reduced the deal price by $3.77/share, Following the adjustments for synergies and changes in Regal’s value between signing and closing, the fair market value of Regal’s common stock was determined to be $23.60/share,

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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?

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