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Go1 snaps up speed reading app Blinkist to expand in enterprise learning

TechCrunch: M&A

After raising $100 million at a valuation of over $2 billion last year, the Australian ed-tech startup Go1 is making an acquisition and getting some investment to expand its reach and technology to serve the market of corporate online learning. Blinkist’s last valuation was $160 million in 2018 , when it raised $18.8

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The Cooley Outlook for 2018 M&A

Cooley M&A

What’s on tap for 2018 M&A? In one-step mergers, where there is a so-called golden parachute advisory vote, inclusion of a gross-up may increase the percentage of shares voting “no” on change of control arrangements, but these are only advisory votes and shareholders generally still approve these arrangements, albeit by smaller margins.

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Sweden’s Klarna moves towards long-awaited US IPO with confidential filing

Global Banking & Finance

(Reuters) -Payments firm Klarna began the process of going public for a second time in three years despite a sharp drop in its valuation, making it the largest Swedish company to float its shares in the U.S. since Spotify’s listing in 2018.

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Overview of the Direct to Consumer Health Food Supplement Industry

InvestmentBank.com

Up from 65% in 2009 the percentage of adult Americans has increased to 76% in 2018 [1] with a projected market CAGR of 7.8% Major Players in the M&A Scene Amazon’s acquisition of PillPack is the largest acquisition of a DTC nutraceutical company on record with a $753 million price tag in 2018. until 2025 [2]. EBITDA multiple. .

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

Cooley M&A

As reflected in Chart 1 , 102 SPAC IPOs have been announced this year as of September 18, 2020—almost double the number of SPAC IPOs in all of last year (and more than double the number of SPAC IPOs in 2018). Valuation Certainty. Competition / Variation. Another feature of SPAC 3.0 is the competition among SPACs for potential targets.

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Physician Practice Acquisitions: A Primer on Hospital & Private Equity Consolidation

InvestmentBank.com

For the better part of the last decade, physician practices have seen a wave of consolidation by hospitals and private equity with 2018 being no exception [1]. toped 5,000 from 2015 to 2016 alone [22] , with the total number of hospital owned physician practices increasing to 80,000 by 2018 [15]. of GDP or $2.5

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Will There Be an IPO for a Specialty Consulting Company in 2024?

Focus Investment Banking

And Navigant Consulting, a well-known publicly traded company, finished going private in 2019, after first selling its Disputes, Forensics and Legal Technology practice to Ankura in 2018, and then selling its remaining divisions to Guidehouse. It seems that the trend is to stay private. Contact Kelly at Kelly.Kittrell@focusbankers.com.

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