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Cooley’s 2021 Life Sciences M&A Year in Review

Cooley M&A

Although the COVID-19 pandemic that defined 2020 continued to shape much of the life sciences industry in 2021, the way that it did was markedly different. 2] Examples of this strategy coming to bear in 2021 included Thermo Fisher Scientific’s acquisition of PPD for $17.4 driven assets. term average of approximately 35%.

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Lower 2021 thresholds announced for merger reviews under Competition Act and Investment Canada Act

Deal Law Wire

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. It is adjusted annually, and for 2021 the threshold is C$415 million, down from C$428 million in 2020.

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Hopin, the struggling virtual conference unicorn, sells events and engagement units to RingCentral

TechCrunch: M&A

Coming off of a huge couple of years of business during the pandemic, in 2021, it was valued at nearly $7.7 Hopin has not raised any further money since 2021, and between then and now it has gone through multiple rounds of layoffs affecting hundreds of employees. Its customer list features Slack, VMware, UPS, Pepsi and many more.

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Stock Buyback Tax Raises Questions as to Application and Practical Effect

The Harvard Law School Forum

Although far from the sweeping tax reform that the Biden Administration had originally envisioned, one provision from the previously proposed “Build Back Better Act” that was included in the IRA is a new 1% non-deductible excise tax on stock repurchases by publicly traded U.S. corporations (the “Buyback Tax”). Overview of the Buyback Tax.

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

Focus Investment Banking

The S&P 500 has recently traded near 4800, close to its record at the end of 2021. In that environment, very few firms sought IPOs, and there was a major slowdown in overall exits, whether private or public. There are only a few publicly traded companies in specialty consulting. As 2024 starts, the U.S.

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SaaS M&A Snapshot: Target Market & Buyers

Software Equity Group

The SEG Index, a collection of 116 public SaaS companies, fell by 48.2%. After the unprecedented market highs of 2020 into 2021, it’s natural for founders in this environment to wonder if they’ve missed the boat. Median EV/TTM Revenue Multiple Down from 2021’s high of 7.3x, 2022’s median EV/Revenue multiple of 5.6x

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Activists Seek REIT Renovations

The Deal

in 2023 through June 20, up from 11 and 13 in the same period in 2022 and 2021, respectively, according to data from Insightia. REITs in full-year 2022 and 2021 each. In many cases, external managers have their hands in multiple pots, at different publicly traded REITs, which each pay them probably too much,” he added.

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