TechCrunch: M&A

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Klaus — an Estonian-born startup which emerged in 2019 to aid customer services agents — has been acquired by global customer services platform Zendesk for an undisclosed amount. Last year Zendesk also acquired Tymeshift, a workforce management tool, to fold into its product.

Management

JD Supra: Mergers

AUGUST 9, 2024

The road leading away from HCA Healthcare’s 2019 acquisition of the multi-campus Mission Health hospital system in Western North Carolina has been a bumpy ride. HCA has faced suit connected to the transaction alleging it exploited monopoly power – resulting in higher prices, lower quality care, and limited patient access.

Hospitality

TechCrunch: M&A

JULY 18, 2023

This acquisition augments Logitech’s product portfolio today and accelerates our software ambitions of enabling keyboards, mice and more to become smarter and contextually aware, creating a better experience for audiences across Logitech.” “Empowering streamers, creators and gamers is a joint passion of Loupedeck and Logitech.

Portfolio

How2Exit

APRIL 22, 2024

b' E205: Raising Capital for Acquisitions: Funding Sources to Finance Your Dream Deal w/ Parnell Speed - Watch Here rn rn About the Guest(s): rn Parnell Speed is a seasoned professional with a background in engineering and experience in the real estate sector.

Finance

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.

Stock

TechCrunch: M&A

MAY 31, 2023

Founded in 2019, Okay participated in Y Combinator’s Winter 2020 cohort before going on to raise a total of $6.6 Financial terms of the deal, which marks Stripe’s first acquisition since it bought card reader provider BBPOS in January of 2022, were not disclosed. Okay had seven employees prior to the acquisition.

Engineering

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.

Management

The New York Times: Mergers, Acquisitions and Dive

JUNE 21, 2024

The credit card company acquired Tock, a restaurant reservation company, after buying its rival, Resy, in 2019.

IT

The New York Times: Mergers, Acquisitions and Dive

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The Observer, first published in 1791, could be bought by Tortoise Media, an outlet founded by a British media veteran that began publishing in 2019.

Media

Shearman & Sterling

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

On September 9, 2019, Vice Chancellor Joseph R. 's motion to dismiss an action for breach of a merger agreement brought by Genuine Parts Company ("GPC"). The claims arose after defendant terminated the two office supply companies' merger agreement in favor of an acquisition of defendant by a private equity firm.

Mergers

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.”

Business

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.

M&A

Shearman & Sterling

JANUARY 14, 2020

On December 30, 2019, Vice Chancellor Joseph R. after it was acquired in a tender offer and cash-out merger by a private equity firm. Slights III of the Delaware Court of Chancery dismissed breach of fiduciary duty claims brought by former stockholders of Essendant Inc. In re Essendant Inc. Stockholder Litigation, C.A.

Mergers

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.

Capital

The Deal

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

“Deals like the Whitehorse acquisition from 2018 were examples of Chesapeake expanding in areas in which they didn’t have a lot of previous assets.” The post Chesapeake, Southwestern Merger Signals Step for LNG appeared first on The Deal. 16, 2024, on The Deal’s premium subscription website.

Mergers

The Harvard Law School Forum

APRIL 7, 2023

million to shareholders in order to resolve allegations that the CBS-Viacom merger of 2019 was unfair, per a recent filing with the SEC. NAI”) and the members of the special Viacom committee that approved the merger. Redstone allegedly insisted that the post-merger company be run by Viacom CEO Robert Bakish.

Mergers

The Guardian: Mergers & Acquisitions

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Arriva was put up for sale in 2019 by its German owner, Deutsche Bahn, which had originally sought to offload the company to reduce its own debts. Continue reading.

Private Equity

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.

Mergers

Shearman & Sterling

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

On September 9, 2019, Vice Chancellor Joseph R. 's motion to dismiss an action for breach of a merger agreement brought by Genuine Parts Company ("GPC"). The claims arose after defendant terminated the two office supply companies' merger agreement in favor of an acquisition of defendant by a private equity firm.

Mergers

How2Exit

JUNE 20, 2023

If you are "Becoming an Acquisition Entrepreneur," start here for free. All of them: Kison Patel @KisonPatel Hasn't tweeted since 2019, but maybe if we bug him, he'll come back Kison Patel @MAScience Top Ranked SMB M&A podcast M&A Science, founder of Dealroom.net which is full of resources for mid-market deals.

M&A

Shearman & Sterling

JANUARY 14, 2020

On December 30, 2019, Vice Chancellor Joseph R. after it was acquired in a tender offer and cash-out merger by a private equity firm. Slights III of the Delaware Court of Chancery dismissed breach of fiduciary duty claims brought by former stockholders of Essendant Inc. In re Essendant Inc. Stockholder Litigation, C.A.

Mergers

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? How do pension funds respond to downsizing after mergers?

Mergers

InvestmentBank.com

OCTOBER 24, 2019

In fact, acquisitions by hospitals and private equity in provider services broke records last year according to Bain & Co’s 2019 global healthcare report. According to a study by Avalere Health and the Physician Advocacy Institute, hospital acquisition of physician practices in the U.S. of GDP or $2.5

Hospitality

InvestmentBank.com

AUGUST 14, 2019

Some projections place the market at nearly $43 billion by the end of 2019 compared to $39.33 The future of EdTech is promising within the U.S. The education technology market size has been expanding at rates ranging from 8.3% billion in 2018. The educational service industry has also been catching up with the global pace [11]. There was $18.1

Education

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.

Management

The New York Times: Mergers, Acquisitions and Dive

JULY 24, 2023

The cable company acquired the network, once billed as “CNBC for millennials,” in 2019 for $200 million.

Sale

TechCrunch: M&A

JULY 12, 2023

In 2019 and 2020, the company raised another $8 million in a round led by Balderton Capital. Jumbo floated the idea of offering a B2B version of its app and service, but that never materialized. In 2018, Jumbo raised a $3.5 million seed round led by Thrive Capital’s Josh Miller and Nextview Ventures’ Rob Go.

Insurance

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.

Mergers

Shearman & Sterling

APRIL 9, 2019

On March 20, 2019, Chancellor Andre G. against its former directors for breach of fiduciary duty in connection with the company's acquisition by affiliates of H.I.G. Capital, LLC in a tender offer followed by a merger. Narang, C.A. Narang, C.A. 2018-0221-AGB (Del.

Mergers and Acquisitions

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. United States of America: McGraw Hill, 2019, pp.

Management

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? United States of America: McGraw Hill, 2019. Not necessarily.

M&A

What's Market

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Market Trends: What You Need to Know RWI is an increasingly important feature of private company merger and acquisition transactions. Every other year since 2005 the ABA has released its Private Target Mergers and Acquisitions Deal Points Studies (the “ABA studies”). Bound at Signing.

Insurance

Deal Law Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The threshold for certain pre-closing net benefit reviews under the Investment Canada Act (ICA) and the threshold for a pre-closing merger notification under the Competition Act have now both been released for 2021. Canada uses a two-part test for determining whether a pre-merger notification is necessary. Competition Act.

Investment

Quest: Mergers & Acquisitions

AUGUST 5, 2019

Mergers and Acquisitions require big bucks to make happen. more than $124 million for failing to protect customer data during and after its acquisition of Starwood Hotels (where the breach originated). Find more Pre-Legal Day One security pitfalls in this ebook: How Mergers and Acquisitions Impact Data Security.

M&A

Quest: Mergers & Acquisitions

APRIL 21, 2019

The question of whether a merger and acquisition (M&A) or divestiture will hit your organization is settled. 2019 is projected to continue at the same pace. IT integration challenges in a M&A Yet IT teams face special challenges in achieving the technology integration required by a merger or acquisition.

M&A

Shearman & Sterling

MARCH 17, 2020

the "Company"), challenging the take-private acquisition of the Company. 2019-0048-SG (Del. Moreover, plaintiff asserted that the transaction was subject to entire fairness review because at least half the directors were conflicted by virtue of having rolled over substantial portions of their equity into the merger.

Negotiation

The New York Times: Mergers, Acquisitions and Dive

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

How missed opportunities, a $1.5 billion real estate deal, all-you-can-eat shrimp and the global pandemic sank the country’s largest seafood chain.

Mergers and Acquisitions