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Will Cava Going Public Set the Table for Other IPOs?

Successful Acquisitions

By David Braun, Founder and CEO, Capstone Strategic When Washington DC based restaurant chain Cava became a publicly traded company recently, it bucked a trend that has lasted nearly two years, a notable absence of American IPOs. The past 18 months have marked the slowest initial public offering market since the financial crisis of 2008.

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M&A for Entrepreneurs: Leverage Acquisitions to Scale Your Business Faster with Dominic Wells

How2Exit

b' E202: M&A for Entrepreneurs: Leverage Acquisitions to Scale Your Business Faster with Dominic Wells - Watch Here rn rn About the Guest(s): rn Dominic Wells is an accomplished entrepreneur and the CEO of Onfolio, a publicly traded company specializing in the acquisition of online businesses.

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SaaS M&A Snapshot: Target Market & Buyers

Software Equity Group

Strategic buyers are publicly traded or privately owned software companies. Particularly notable is the significant decline in public strategic deals, which fell from 35% to 25% from 2021 to 2022. In previous economic downturns, such as 2008, private SaaS company valuations took a hit as public strategics were forced to cut back.

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

Cooley M&A

starting in the early 2000s and ending around the start of the 2008-2009 financial crisis, and the second (SPAC 2.0) The panelists kicked off with a discussion of the acceleration of the SPAC market over the past twelve months, and how this current wave of SPAC activity—coined by some as “SPAC 3.0”—compares Increased Frequency and Size.

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

Cooley M&A

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. target life sciences company transactions announced from 2008 to date – included an earnout). [7] 30, 2021. [8]

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