JD Supra: Mergers

MAY 28, 2024

On May 21, 2024, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) filed the Proposed Rule to move marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) to Schedule III of the CSA. In light of the rescheduling marijuana news, industry insiders anticipate a significant increase in cannabis-related investments and acquisition activity. While this anticipated increase in activity is exciting, it is no secret that those who have already invested capital into the cannabis industry have learned some hard.

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TechCrunch: M&A

MAY 30, 2024

Redpanda has already integrated Benthos into its own service and has made it the core technology of its new Redpanda Connect service. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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How2Exit

MAY 27, 2024

b' E217: The Current State of Buying and Selling E-commerce Businesses with George Moulos - Watch Here rn rn About the Guest(s): rn George Moulos is an entrepreneur and the founder of Ecommerce Brokers, a company specializing in buying and selling online businesses, especially within the e-commerce, agency, and SaaS spaces. With a background that ranges from starting businesses at a young age—including Facebook groups and affiliate marketing—to building and exiting various digital as

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Deal Lawyers

MAY 30, 2024

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before – a founding stockholder enters into a stockholders agreement containing governance provisions that allow him to veto a laundry list of corporate actions that the board could otherwise take. A stockholder plaintiff objects to those provisions and files a lawsuit in Chancery Court seeking to invalidate them.

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The New York Times: Banking

MAY 30, 2024

Things look strong on paper, but many Americans remain unconvinced. We asked economic officials, the woman who coined “vibecession” and Charlamagne Tha God what they think is happening.

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TechCrunch: M&A

MAY 29, 2024

DevOps startup Harness has shown itself to be an ambitious company, building a broad platform of services while also dabbling in M&A when it made sense to fill in functionality. On Wednesday, the company announced it was ready for a much bigger M&A bite, acquiring feature flag startup Split.io for an undisclosed amount of money. […] © 2024 TechCrunch.

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How2Exit

MAY 27, 2024

b' E216: David Lynch: Building and Selling a Successful 8-Figure Healthcare Business - Watch Here rn rn About the Guest(s): rn David Lynch is an entrepreneur from the UK who started a business in the healthcare sector. He began his journey by selling mobility and disability products from his spare room. Over the course of 11 years, he grew the business to achieve eight-figure revenue and successfully sold it to a private equity-backed buyer.

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Deal Lawyers

MAY 31, 2024

If you’re interested in the ongoing debate over the proposed 2024 amendments to the DGCL, there’s one voice I think you’ll want to be sure not to miss – Vice Chancellor Travis Laster. Over on his LinkedIn page, the Vice Chancellor has authored posts raising important questions about the language of the proposed amendments.

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CNBC: Investing

MAY 30, 2024

Nvidia, the red-hot chipmaker that sells advanced processors to enable artificial intelligence technology, may have a customer bigger than anyone else.

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In today's volatile financial environment, how confident are you in your company’s financial forecasting? To get the most accurate cash predictions that will lead to long-term financial survival, real-time data is critical. Innovative cash management strategies can lead to better credit opportunities, more sustainable growth, and long-term financial prosperity.

Finance

JD Supra: Mergers

MAY 28, 2024

The UK Competition & Markets Authority (“CMA”) has published the first in a series of anticipated merger control decisions in the artificial intelligence (“AI”) space, providing insight on its approach to the application of UK merger control rules to AI partnerships. On 17 May 2024, the CMA published a decision announcing that a partnership between Microsoft and Mistral AI ("Mistral”), intended to assist Mistral in developing and deploying AI foundation models (“FMs”), did not qualify for.

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TechCrunch: M&A

MAY 30, 2024

Salespeople live and die by commissions. It's no surprise, then, that Salesforce paid a premium to buy a platform that simplifies managing commissions. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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The TRADE

MAY 29, 2024

DTCC experienced system issues within its DTC and NSCC night cycle processing on the first day of T+1, Global Custodian has learnt. The issue was described by sources as having minor impact, and is in line with ‘expected teething issues’ anticipated by the US market infrastructure. DTCC has issued a notice to market participants that a system issue had occurred, but according to sources at a number of custodians, transactions were still processed in accordance with the DTCC deadlines for settlem

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Deal Lawyers

MAY 28, 2024

One of the most challenging aspects of Delaware’s corporate law jurisprudence over the past 40 years has involved efforts to reconcile the contractual obligations that a target board may commit itself to in connection with a sale transaction and its fiduciary duties to target company stockholders.

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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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CNBC: Investing

MAY 29, 2024

Cathie Wood's ARK Invest has taken a stake in Elon Musk's startup xAI as she deepens her big bet on artificial intelligence.

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JD Supra: Mergers

MAY 30, 2024

Now, more than ever, health care organizations are facing complex antitrust issues as their mergers/acquisitions, hiring, contracting, and private funding are being scrutinized by the federal and state governments. Proper planning for any competitive initiative, including day-to-day decisions, is essential to avoid potential antitrust risks.

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Cisco: M&A

MAY 29, 2024

Get ready to go beyond and explore new paths to success with partner managed-ready solutions designed to enable greater efficiency, operational scale, innovation, and open new market opportunities!

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The New York Times: Banking

MAY 28, 2024

The rules will allow Cuban entrepreneurs to open bank accounts in the United States, making it easier for them to expand and encouraging other Cubans to start businesses.

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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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Deal Lawyers

MAY 29, 2024

In our latest Deal Lawyers Download Podcast, SRS Acquiom’s Kip Wallen joined me to discuss his firm’s 2024 M&A Deal Terms Study.

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CNBC: Investing

MAY 28, 2024

Semler Scientific saw its shares surge Tuesday after it said it has adopted bitcoin as its primary treasury reserve asset.

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JD Supra: Mergers

MAY 30, 2024

The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) push against private equity roll-ups has hit a snag. On May 14, 2024, US District Judge Kenneth Hoyt of the Southern District of Texas granted a motion to dismiss filed by Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (Welsh Carson), while denying the motion to dismiss filed by co-defendant US Anesthesia Partners (USAP). Judge Hoyt found that the FTC had not adequately alleged that Welsh Carson “is violating” or “is about to violate” antitrust laws, as required under.

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Cisco: M&A

MAY 30, 2024

To assist you in this journey at Cisco Live, and beyond, is the Partner Launch Experience. This curated launch experience takes you through all the exciting announcements.

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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.

Business

The New York Times: Banking

MAY 27, 2024

The city, promised some autonomy by China, is trying to move on from a security law imposed by Beijing. Companies are learning that’s not always possible.

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Global Newswire by Notified: M&A

MAY 27, 2024

On 9 February 2024, DFDS A/S (“DFDS”) announced the initiation of a share buyback programme to be executed in accordance with EU Market Abuse Regulation, EU Regulation no. 596/2014 of 16 April 2014, and the provisions of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1052 of 8 March 2016 (the “Safe Harbour Rules”).

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CNBC: Investing

MAY 30, 2024

The Russell 2000 has gone more than 600 trading days without a record high, dating back to November 2021. Interest rates and earnings growth are key factors.

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JD Supra: Mergers

MAY 30, 2024

Canadian businesses may soon face tougher standards in merger review if amendments being considered by the government to include “structural presumptions” and more onerous remedy standards in merger reviews are passed into law.

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Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format. To better understand the factors behind the decision to build or buy analytics, insightsoftware partnered with Hanover Research to survey IT, software development, and analytics professionals on why they make the embedded analytics choices they do.

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Cisco: M&A

MAY 30, 2024

The South Australian Department for Education collaborates with Cisco Meraki to transform education statewide by implementing robust network solutions that enhance learning opportunities, especially in remote areas.

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European Investment Bank

MAY 26, 2024

This publication gives an overview of the European Investment Bank’s contribution for water management. It details the Bank’s activities in the sector and highlights key projects. The stories, videos and case studies, illustrate how the Bank’s financing and advice help countries, regions and cities.

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The TRADE

MAY 28, 2024

Commerzbank has moved to simplify and streamline its cross-asset trading with a migration onto Murex’s MX.3 platform. The bank has migrated its foreign exchange, commodities, derivatives, and equities onto the platform in a bid to simplify risk and trading. Now completed, the pair said the migration would help Commerzbank achieve business “expansion, consolidation, modernisation, and digitalisation” by improving speed to market and optimising efficiencies.

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