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2025 Dental Transactions Update

Focus Investment Banking

Things started to accelerate in 2015, with a tremendous spike from 2019 to 2021 when more than 15 DSOs were created each year. First, many of the private equity backed DSOs are preparing for their own sale processes. Second, some of the younger DSOs are in an initial growth phase.

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Martha Stewart Decision Draws Roadmap for Controller Sales to Third Parties

Cooley M&A

A recent decision provides a helpful roadmap for directors and controlling stockholders (who also have fiduciary duties to the minority) when navigating sales of such companies where there are heightened litigation risks due to the presence of actual and perceived conflicts of interest. per share to $6.15

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Drinks With The Deal: Fenwick’s Lee Talks Tech, Making Partner and WFH

The Deal

Bomi Lee knew she wanted to specialize in M&A after working on two deals as a mid-level associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in 2014 and 2015, she said on this week’s Drinks With The Deal podcast. “I I liked the strategy and the negotiations and the chess game element of M&A, the immediacy of M&A,” Lee said.

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10 Concepts We Can Learn About ETA on How2Exit's Interview W/Carlos Rodriguez Laconi Successful on Successful Exit

How2Exit

Once the evaluation is complete, the buyer and seller must then negotiate the terms of the transaction. This negotiation process can be complex and may involve the use of lawyers, accountants, and other professionals. Once the due diligence is complete, the buyer and seller must then negotiate the purchase price.

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The M&A costs for excluding IT from Day Zero activities (Part 2)

Quest: Mergers & Acquisitions

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are always a hush-hush thing, where only a select few in each organization are privy to the details and the negotiations. In 2015, Marriott announced the acquisition of Starwood Hotels would help them realize $200 million in annual cost synergies by leveraging back-office and operational efficiencies 1.

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Renegotiating Deal Terms? Delaware Reminds Fiduciaries of Unremitting Duties

Cooley M&A

In 2015, Towers Watson and Willis Group announced a “merger of equals.” Ideally, discussions involving post-closing employment or compensation, particularly of an individual who is negotiating transaction terms, should be deferred until deal economics and other key deal terms are largely finalized. Case # 1 (Fort Myers v.

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Keeping Up with Delaware Appraisal Jurisprudence Since Aruba: Deal Price Reigns Supreme, But Will Recent Decision Lead to More Arbitrage?

Cooley M&A

In the Delaware appraisal decisions that have followed, the court has consistently found deal price (minus synergies) to be the most reliable indicator of fair value, so long as there was a sufficiently robust sales process that bore “objective indicia” of reliability. Pre-Payment of Appraisal Award Non-Refundable. Conclusion. 1] In Halpin v.