Cooley M&A

JANUARY 24, 2020

In the wake of record-setting volume and value metrics in 2018, practitioners eyed the 2019 deal market with healthy skepticism. Despite a slight downward tick in momentum and overall deal statistics, 2019 remained a robust, dynamic and competitive market with tech deals outpacing other sectors in both volume and critical features.

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How2Exit

APRIL 9, 2023

In 2019, they saw the rise of big media companies entering the space, such as CNN and the New York Times. yeah. -Ron Concept 1: Grow From Nothing To Giant The idea of growing from nothing to a giant is one that many people dream of. For Michael Fink, co-CEO of Treasure Hunter, this dream became a reality. billion monthly users.

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M&A Leadership Council

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The Art of M&A® / Financing and Refinancing An excerpt from The Art of M&A, Fifth Edition: A Merger, Acquisition, and Buyout Guide by Alexandra Reed Lajoux Can a buyer always finance all or part of a transaction through partial divestments or spin-offs? Not necessarily.

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TechCrunch: M&A

JUNE 26, 2023

It’s ThoughtSpot’s fourth acquisition following (most recently) the company’s purchases of SQL-based analytics firm SeekWell in March 2021 and data integration company Diyotta in May of that same year. Enabling all the deals is ThoughtSpot’s massive war chest, which totaled over $663 million as of August 2019.

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Quest: Mergers & Acquisitions

AUGUST 5, 2019

Mergers and Acquisitions require big bucks to make happen. Poorly protected data during and after an M&A IT Integration will cost even bigger bucks with a few nasty headlines thrown on top! Find more Pre-Legal Day One security pitfalls in this ebook: How Mergers and Acquisitions Impact Data Security.

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TechCrunch: M&A

JUNE 26, 2023

Today, IBM made a big acquisition doubling down on the hybrid concept: it will pay $4.6 IBM said in its announcement that the acquisition is expected to close in the second half of 2023, pending regulatory and other approvals. This deal shouldn’t be too much of a surprise: it was rumored to be in the works over the weekend.

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TechCrunch: M&A

JUNE 26, 2023

The deal marks Ramp’s first acquisition since it bought Buyer , a “negotiation-as-a-service” platform that claimed to save its clients money on big-ticket purchases such as annual software contracts, in August of 2021 and second since its 2019 inception. Financial terms were not disclosed. Ramp itself has more than 15,000 customers.

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TechCrunch: M&A

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Jeli was founded in 2019 by Nora Jones, a chaos engineering veteran, who had previously worked at Netflix and Slack. PagerDuty announced this afternoon that it intends to acquire Jeli.io, an early-stage incident management startup. The companies did not share the price. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Quest: Mergers & Acquisitions

AUGUST 12, 2019

As you recall from Part 1 of my mergers and acquisitions security series, I highlighted a few key security mistakes organizations make during an M&A IT integration. In Part 2, I will focus on two headline grabbing examples that expose the M&A IT integration security failures of major corporations.

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Quest: Mergers & Acquisitions

JULY 2, 2019

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. As we saw in Part 1 of the C-Suite Series , M&A activity is accelerating and IT is on the hook for up to 50 percent of expected cost synergies.

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Quest: Mergers & Acquisitions

APRIL 21, 2019

The question of whether a merger and acquisition (M&A) or divestiture will hit your organization is settled. The real question is whether the department that carries the brunt of the M&A work is prepared: Information Technology. 2019 is projected to continue at the same pace.

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Sun Acquisitions

AUGUST 2, 2024

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have emerged as a strategic approach for MSPs to enhance their service offerings, improve customer retention, and strengthen their market position. Here are several ways M&A can facilitate this process: 1. This transparency builds trust and reduces misunderstandings.

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The Deal

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

While the deal could bring about some undesired déjà vu from the buyer’s not-so-distant M&A past, which helped lead it into bankruptcy in June 2020, at least one investor is confident Chesapeake is not destined to repeat its painful history. The post Chesapeake, Southwestern Merger Signals Step for LNG appeared first on The Deal.

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Devensoft

AUGUST 14, 2023

Streamlining Integration Management Office (IMO) for Better Efficiency Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) are complex undertakings that require careful planning and execution. One of the critical components of M&A is the Integration Management Office (IMO). Don’t have time to read the full article?

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M&A Leadership Council

AUGUST 1, 2023

The Art of M&A® / Integration: Harmonization of Post-Merger Compensation Plans An excerpt from The Art of M&A, Fifth Edition: A Merger, Acquisition, and Buyout Guide by Alexandra Reed Lajoux Editor’s Note: A growing number of M&A professionals are pursuing the Certified M&A Specialist , or CMAS ® credential.

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Cooley M&A

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

government shutdown disrupting the market for IPOs, Brexit uncertainty, natural disasters and various other crises, cross-border M&A activity momentum continues. The following 10 key trends are underpinning hyperactivity in global M&A markets and are set to continue to shape deals well into 2019. In July 2018, the U.K.

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TechCrunch: M&A

AUGUST 2, 2023

The companies said that the acquisition will include tech assets, customer relationships (that is, customers using the tools) and engineering, product and go-to-market talent. All of these will be added to RingCentral’s video solutions business, adding events to its existing offerings in meetings, webinars and video “rooms.”

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Trout CPA: M&A

JANUARY 7, 2022

Michael Wolfe, CPA/ABV, CVA, Valuation Services Partner at Trout CPA Pandemic Impact on M&A We can now appreciate the normalcy that existed at the end of 2019. There was plenty of M&A activity, lots of “dry powder” with private equity firms, low interest rates, and a great time to sell or buy a business.

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Quest: Mergers & Acquisitions

DECEMBER 9, 2020

On to the second half, starting with a subject that regular readers know is near and dear to my heart: mergers and acquisitions. Specifically, I predict that increased M&A activity in 2021 will make it painfully clear just how hard a tenant-to-tenant migration really is. In 2020, M&A activity lagged — and then soared.

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Cooley M&A

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

4] However, such exceptions were not universal and, as will be discussed below, the vast majority of dual-class charters adopted before 2016 that contained transfer restrictions did not include M&A voting agreement carve outs. In a small number of cases, a class of common stock is offered to the public that has no voting rights at all.

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M&A Leadership Council

OCTOBER 22, 2023

The Art of M&A® / Post-Merger Integration and Divestitures An excerpt from The Art of M&A, Fifth Edition: A Merger, Acquisition, and Buyout Guide by Alexandra Reed Lajoux COMMITMENTS to EMPLOYEES Why is it important to make and keep commitments to employees? What is the financial impact of downsizing?

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 23, 2024

In a subdued year for global M&A, deal-making in the life sciences industry came in waves, with a busy fourth quarter generating cautious optimism heading into 2024. billion; Bristol Myer Squibb’s acquisition of RayzeBio for $4.1 billion, and Karina for $14 billion; AstraZeneca’s acquisition of Gracell Biotechnologies for up to $1.2

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Cooley M&A

OCTOBER 29, 2020

On September 24, Cooley M&A partner, Garth Osterman, moderated a webinar on the current trend in going public: SPACs! Key highlights from the webinar are summarized below and a link to the recording can be found here. compares to the prior two iterations of SPAC activity, with the first (SPAC 1.0) Increased Frequency and Size.

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InvestmentBank.com

AUGUST 14, 2019

Introduction Education technology (EdTech) is a term used to describe the industry that combines education and technological advances, revolutionizing the conventional landscape of education. Students (K-12) participating in schools with technological integration efforts achieved an increase of 94 points on average in SAT I performance [1].

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M&A Leadership Council

JUNE 28, 2023

The Art of M&A® / Integration An excerpt from The Art of M&A, Fifth Edition: A Merger, Acquisition, and Buyout Guide by Alexandra Reed Lajoux Editor’s Note: A growing number of M&A professionals are pursuing the Certified M&A Specialist, or CMAS™ credential. 806, 823-824.

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The Deal

AUGUST 9, 2023

Our acquisition strategy is aligned with acquiring companies with a traditional product portfolio, who have success and marquee customer relationships that we can transform with our AI platform,” SymphonyAI CEO Sanjay Dhawan told The Deal. Following acquisitions, the company develops AI applications for the target’s clients.

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InvestmentBank.com

OCTOBER 24, 2019

M&A activity in physician practices continues to grow and outpace other sectors as deals in the healthcare industry are coveted by investors for their strong growth, recession resistance, and superior historical returns. Several factors are attributed to the most recent surge in physician practice acquisitions by hospitals.

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What's Market

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Goulston & Storrs M&A attorney Dan Avery is a nationally recognized expert on M&A deal point trends. Market Trends: What You Need to Know RWI is an increasingly important feature of private company merger and acquisition transactions. As shown in these three most recent ABA studies: RWI References.

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M&A Leadership Council

JULY 13, 2023

The Art of M&A® / Due Diligence: Precedent Transactions Analysis An excerpt from The Art of M&A, Fifth Edition: A Merger, Acquisition, and Buyout Guide by Alexandra Reed Lajoux Editor’s Note: A growing number of M&A professionals are pursuing the Certified M&A Specialist , or CMAS ® credential.

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M&A Leadership Council

JULY 13, 2023

The Art of M&A® / Due Diligence: Precedent Transactions Analysis An excerpt from The Art of M&A, Fifth Edition: A Merger, Acquisition, and Buyout Guide by Alexandra Reed Lajoux Editor’s Note: A growing number of M&A professionals are pursuing the Certified M&A Specialist , or CMAS ® credential.

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The Deal

JULY 18, 2023

has done quite a few deals over the past two decades, but CEO Darin Anderson refuses to use the word acquisition. ” All Aboard the Bullet Train Indeed, since 2019 Salas O’Brien has been aggressively adding specialty E&C firms across the country, combining with more than 25 businesses in that span alone.

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TechCrunch: M&A

AUGUST 3, 2023

” Launched in 2019 by Xiaoyin Qu, who previously led products for both Facebook and Instagram, and Xuan Jiang, Qu’s former colleague at Meta, Run The World offered a range of capabilities to facilitate online conferencing, including tools for event ticketing, interactivity and networking. But Qu wouldn’t confirm or deny.

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TechCrunch: M&A

JULY 12, 2023

In 2019 and 2020, the company raised another $8 million in a round led by Balderton Capital. San Francisco-based cybersecurity startup Coalition is acquiring Jumbo, a mobile app that lets you control your privacy on the web. I have covered Jumbo several times over the past few years, so it’s time to close the loop on this one.

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What's Market

AUGUST 29, 2022

Goulston & Storrs M&A attorney Dan Avery is a nationally recognized expert on M&A deal point trends. This article examines trends relating to the use of indemnity escrows in private company M&A transactions. Typically, these escrows are held by a third party independent of the buyer and seller, such as a bank.

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M&A Leadership Council

AUGUST 24, 2023

The Art of M&A® / Due Diligence: Detecting Cybersecurity Risk An excerpt from The Art of M&A, Fifth Edition: A Merger, Acquisition, and Buyout Guide by Alexandra Reed Lajoux Editor’s Note: A growing number of M&A professionals are pursuing the Certified M&A Specialist , or CMAS ® credential.

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M&A Leadership Council

AUGUST 7, 2024

The Art of M&A® / Due Diligence An excerpt from The Art of M&A, Fifth Edition: A Merger, Acquisition, and Buyout Guide by Alexandra Reed Lajoux Editor’s Note: A growing number of M&A professionals are pursuing the Certified M&A Specialist, or CMAS ® credential.

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M&A Leadership Council

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The Art of M&A® / Financing and Refinancing An excerpt from The Art of M&A, Fifth Edition: A Merger, Acquisition, and Buyout Guide by Alexandra Reed Lajoux Can a buyer always finance all or part of a transaction through partial divestments or spin-offs? Not necessarily.

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