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Highlights from Cooley’s M&A Dealmakers Roundtable: SPACs!

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starting in the early 2000s and ending around the start of the 2008-2009 financial crisis, and the second (SPAC 2.0) is the increased frequency at which SPAC IPOs are occurring. There are currently very few people in the IPO ecosystem that don’t recognize the value of a SPAC as an alternative to a traditional IPO or a direct listing.

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Top 10 Cross-Border M&A Trends across the Pond

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government shutdown disrupting the market for IPOs, Brexit uncertainty, natural disasters and various other crises, cross-border M&A activity momentum continues. New records were attained in the past twelve months, eclipsing the previous highs set pre-2008 financial crash.

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Cooley’s 2021 Life Sciences M&A Year in Review

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2021’s SPAC activity was most intense in the first quarter, with 298 SPAC IPOs priced and 97 deSPAC transactions announced in the first quarter alone. target life sciences company transactions announced from 2008 to date – included an earnout). [7] Although the SPAC craze was (re)ignited in 2020, the volume of SPAC activity hit all?time

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