The New York Times: Banking

APRIL 20, 2024

Pressed on his claims of 2020 election irregularities, the Republican candidate for Senate in Wisconsin has questioned the mental capacity of nursing home residents to vote.

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CNBC: Investing

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Recession fears are looming, but a few intermediate core bond funds have a track record of success.

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TechCrunch: M&A

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Skiff was started in 2020 by Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg. Notion launched its new calendar based on Cron last month, but its productivity suit can soon have more privacy-focused offerings. The company announced today that it has acquired Skiff, a platform that offers end-to-end encrypted file storage, docs, calendar events and email.

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InvestmentBank.com

JANUARY 14, 2021

One could likely dedicate an entire history book to all that has happened in 2020. This new world has forced many new adaptations and innovations, but what has this meant for those in VC who circled themselves around new trends and innovations long before 2020? According to analysis from PwC and CB Insights, Q2 2020 showed a 9.6%

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 22, 2021

While we continue to absorb and understand the worldwide pandemic shockwaves of 2020, trying to encapsulate the vicissitudes of the past year in an annual recap is daunting. 1] The robust momentum in the second half of the year nearly made up for early pandemic effects as 2020 deal value was down only 6.6% A Tale of Two Years.

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Sica Fletcher

AUGUST 18, 2020

This blog post analyzes the significance of the statistics included in our ,, Second Quarter 2020 Sica Fletcher Agency & Broker Buyer Index. This is what the data tells us, cut in this manner: As you can see, there was very little change in the number of transactions in the second quarter of 2020 as compared to the same period in 2019.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 22, 2021

If 2019 was the year of life sciences mega-deals, 2020 was the year of COVID-19, as the global pandemic permeated every aspect of the dealmaking landscape, with the life sciences sector being no exception. Also impacted was Thermo Fisher’s attempted acquisition of Qiagen through a tender offer launched on March 3, 2020.

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CNBC: Investing

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Keeping diversified and staying the course can pay off.

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JD Supra: Mergers

AUGUST 8, 2023

From 2020 to 2022, EBITDA became almost as prevalent as revenue metrics for determining earnout payments, according to analysis of the Goodwin Private Equity Deals Database. In 2022, EBITDA was used in 40% of earnouts, up 22% from 2020. By: Goodwin

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CNBC: Investing

JUNE 27, 2023

If investors pick the right bank, they're likely to be paid only in stock rather than partly in cash, and the premium will probably be small, an analyst says.

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JD Supra: Mergers

MARCH 29, 2024

Since 2020, our antitrust/competition practice has expanded the Dechert Antitrust Merger Investigation Timing Tracker (DAMITT) to include Germany and France. This supplements DAMITT’s U.S.

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JD Supra: Mergers

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Since 2020, a steadily increasing number of middle-market private equity deals have included equity rollovers. ​​​​​​​ Given the current acute challenges in arranging acquisition financing on palatable terms and a continued focus on ensuring alignment between private equity (PE) investors and portfolio company management, the use of rollover equity (..)

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JD Supra: Mergers

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Several years ago, Congress passed the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020, which became effective law on January 1, 2021 (the “Act”). Included in the Anti-Money Laundering legislation was the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”).

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TechCrunch: M&A

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Adevinta had originally acquired eBay’s own classified business back in 2020, leaving eBay with $2.2 eBay is unloading its remaining shares in the online classified business Adevinta to private equity firms Permira and Blackstone for $2.2 billion in cash and 20% equity, it said. billion in cash and 540 million Adevinta shares.

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JD Supra: Mergers

MAY 23, 2023

In Short - SPAC Deals: Special purpose acquisition companies ("SPACs") boomed in 2020 as a means of taking early-stage private companies public.

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JD Supra: Mergers

JANUARY 18, 2024

On December 18, 2023, the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (Agencies) issued the 2023 Merger Guidelines, which replace the Agencies’ 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines and the 2020 Vertical Merger Guidelines.

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JD Supra: Mergers

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The Guidelines combine and replace the existing 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines and 2020 Vertical Merger Guidelines in one document. Department of Justice (the “Agencies”) jointly released new Merger Guidelines (the “Guidelines”), setting forth the analytical framework the Agencies will use to review proposed mergers and acquisitions.

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JD Supra: Mergers

JANUARY 8, 2024

The Corporate Transparency Act of 2020 took effect on January 1, 2024, adding new filing requirements for many companies that may find themselves involved in mergers and acquisitions.

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JD Supra: Mergers

JANUARY 11, 2024

The 2023 Merger Guidelines modify the draft guidelines released on July 19, 2023, and replace both the 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines and the 2020 Vertical Merger Guidelines. The 2023 Merger Guidelines are not themselves legally binding, but provide transparency into. By: Locke Lord LLP

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JD Supra: Mergers

DECEMBER 22, 2023

1 These Guidelines replace the 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines (“2010 Guidelines”) and the DOJ’s 2020 Vertical Merger Guidelines. On December 18, 2023, the U.S. By: King & Spalding

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JD Supra: Mergers

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The Final Merger Guidelines update and replace the 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines and the rescinded 2020 Vertical Merger Guidelines. The Final Merger Guidelines kept important components from the Proposed Merger Guidelines (e.g., lower thresholds rendering certain. By: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

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JD Supra: Mergers

JANUARY 15, 2024

The Guidelines replace the 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines and the 2020 Vertical Merger Guidelines, the latter of which had been previously withdrawn. The Guidelines are the latest iteration of a guidance document published by the Agencies since 1968, which has been revised numerous times over the years. By: Cohen & Gresser LLP

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JD Supra: Mergers

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The 788 transactions announced in Q3 represent the lowest quarterly total since the 731 announced in Q2 2020, when the onset of COVID-19 ground. There were 2,927 deals announced across the sectors through the first nine months of the year, down 12.7 percent from the same period last year. By: White & Case LLP

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JD Supra: Mergers

JANUARY 4, 2024

2020-0165-KSJM (Del. HBK Master Fund L.P. Pivotal Software Inc., 14, 2023) - The Delaware Court of Chancery engages in an independent valuation process when determining the fair value of petitioners' stock in appraisal actions.

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Cisco: M&A

APRIL 18, 2024

By 2020, Earth… Read more on Cisco Blogs Earth Day was founded in the United States on April 22, 1970, to mark the emergence of the modern environmental movement, and it inspired more than 20 million Americans to take action.

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CNBC: Investing

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For the first time since 2020, Disney is resuming paying a dividend to return capital to shareholders as the media giant continues its turnaround.

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JD Supra: Mergers

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In our 2022 alert “REIT M&A Trends Through the Pandemic,” we cataloged a total of 42 new REIT transactions announced between August 2020 and May 2022, a pace that rivaled or exceeded pre-pandemic levels.

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Deal Lawyers

APRIL 1, 2024

Here are some key takeaways from this release comparing the results to WTW’s 2020 study: – […] The survey of approximately 160 respondents provides useful benchmarking information to shape retention programs more effectively.

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JD Supra: Mergers

JANUARY 2, 2024

2020-1000-LWW (Del. NetApp Inc. Cinelli, C.A. 2, 2023) - This decision arose out of the sale of the company Cloud Jumper to NetApp, Inc. The seller’s management had been recording internal software use as revenue in its unaudited financial statements but never disclosed this practice to the buyer in the sale’s process.

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Cooley M&A

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Eco-friendly, socially conscious and pro-governance investments have been hailed recently with a surge in focus on ESG initiatives, but sustainability and profitability don’t always go hand in hand.

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JD Supra: Mergers

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Zollinger, 2020 SCC 45 (“Callow”) and clarified that a breach of the contractual duty of honest performance does not create an automatic presumption of loss. In Bhatnagar v. Cresco Labs Inc., 2023 ONCA 401, the Ontario Court of Appeal elaborated on the Supreme Court’s decision in C.M. Callow Inc.

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JD Supra: Mergers

JANUARY 17, 2024

From mid-2020 through mid-2022, we saw a large uptick in the number of policies and limits bound, and so it stands to reason that the number of reps and warranties (R&W) claims received by insurers has increased in the past year.

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JD Supra: Mergers

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

As part of a global effort to improve corporate transparency and combat serious financial crime, private companies incorporated under the British Columbia Business Corporations Act (“BCBCA”) have been required to prepare and maintain a Transparency Register since October 1, 2020.

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The New York Times: Banking

MARCH 19, 2024

Some firms have already moved staff out of the city since the Chinese government took a heavier hand in 2020.

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JD Supra: Mergers

JULY 25, 2023

The draft Merger Guidelines, once finalized, will replace both the 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines and the withdrawn 2020 Vertical Merger Guidelines. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) (collectively, the agencies) issued their long-awaited draft Merger Guidelines. By: Dechert LLP

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