OfficeHours

JULY 11, 2023

IS THE IPO MARKET COMING BACK? If you can really nail valuation questions but struggle with regulatory questions, make sure you can get all the valuation questions right to maximize your points there. Are you focused on recruiting in 2023? Are there still upsell opportunities in a market like this?

Investment Banking

Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 18, 2024

It has taken two years to return to those levels, after 2022 and 2023 were burdened with interest rate hikes and fears of a recession. In that environment, very few firms sought IPOs, and there was a major slowdown in overall exits, whether private or public. The post Will There Be an IPO for a Specialty Consulting Company in 2024?

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Growth Business

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The first half of 2023 saw UK tech company investment fall to £5.9bn – the sharpest decline in Europe with interest rates, macroeconomic uncertainty, falling valuations and inflation slowing down the market across the continent.

Capital

Growth Business

JUNE 8, 2023

In the UK, a downward trend for tech IPOs continued, with volumes falling to their lowest level last year in a decade. One in five global venture rounds during Q1 2023 were down rounds, according to the report from European venture capitalists Atomico — almost four times higher than the same period in 2022.

Investment

Cooley M&A

OCTOBER 23, 2023

On October 4, 2023, Cooley M&A partner Kevin Cooper appeared at Axios’ Dealmakers: The M&A Forecast virtual event. During the “View From the Top” segment, Cooper spoke with Fabricio Drumond, chief business officer at Axios, about the M&A landscape going into Q4 2023. View the full video here.

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The Deal

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Direct-to-consumer businesses, darlings of the investor community in 2021, saw their techlike valuations plummet. Public markets, however, have been tepid, with the much-awaited IPO of L Catterton Management Ltd. “We do think some of the transactions that may have launched in 2022 will start to get done in the back half of 2023.”

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 23, 2024

While the year saw an overall decline in M&A activity (down 17% from 2022) , total pharmaceuticals and life sciences deal value in 2023 increased by approximately 50% compared to 2022. More than half of all life sciences M&A activity in 2023 was for private and small-cap biopharma sellers. billion, Mirati for $5.8 Let’s dig in.

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MergersCorp M&A International

OCTOBER 15, 2024

SPACs are publicly traded companies that raise capital through an initial public offering (IPO) with the primary aim of acquiring an existing private company, thereby enabling it to go public without undergoing the traditional IPO process.

Mergers and Acquisitions

Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 3, 2024

M&A activity in the restaurant industry also turned a corner and picked up in the second half of 2023, after a slow start to the year. Cava opened the IPO window and showed that a good company can go public in any market. Emerging concepts also captured buyer attention in 2023. To many, this environment is the “new normal”.

Acquisitions

Mergers and Inquisitions

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Technical Questions – You could get standard questions about accounting and valuation or VC-specific questions about cap tables, key metrics in your industry, or how to value startups. Q: Tell me about the current IPO, M&A, and VC funding markets. Q: Which current startup would you invest in?

Capital

Cooley M&A

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

That said, cross-border M&A remained largely resilient in 2022, with a return to healthy pre-pandemic levels, and while the types of deals we see in 2023 may evolve, many observers believe that deal volume will remain buoyant throughout the year. We continue to see and expect this “less is more” trend to mature in 2023.

M&A

Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

Amid depressed valuations, biotechnology companies also saw an increasing number of demands from activist investors that in certain cases led to more deal activity. Let’s dig in. It’s a more challenging market environment right now than we’ve seen in many years,” said Charlie Kim , who co-chairs Cooley’s capital markets practice.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

APRIL 12, 2023

For example, you might get an urgent client request, a VP’s request to schedule a meeting for a potential client, and the same VP who wants to know the dates of an upcoming IPO roadshow. In the scenario above, for example, you wouldn’t want to schedule a VP’s potential client meeting on any of the same days as the IPO roadshow.

Investment Banking

M&A Leadership Council

JUNE 12, 2023

Second, impact to deal valuation or terms. Concerning valuation or deal terms, the earlier you detect a breach or a strong possibility of a breach, the better so you can help corporate development decide how best to address the issues. MH: We often talk about due diligence findings in three successive phases. More info HERE.

IT

Cooley M&A

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

2023’s much-discussed downturn in mergers & acquisitions – with global M&A volume and value down 6% and 17%, respectively, from 2022 – was largely driven by the slowdown in the tech sector, with global tech M&A volumes down 51% year over year, while other sectors saw marked increases. [1] billion leading the pack.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

However, deal activity fizzled in the second half of 2022, as high inflation, aggressive anti-inflation monetary policies, geopolitical instability, assertive antitrust regulators and tightening financing markets depressed target valuations, reduced strategic acquirer confidence and sidelined private equity sponsor buyers. trillion. [2]

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MergersCorp M&A International

MAY 27, 2025

After a boom in 2020 and 2021 that saw record-breaking volumes, the market cooled considerably in 2022 and 2023. The Basics At its core, a SPAC is a shell company with no commercial operations, formed solely to raise capital through an Initial Public Offering (IPO) with the express purpose of acquiring an existing private company.

IPO

Focus Investment Banking

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

.* *FOCUS research I suspect we would have already seen several of these exits were it not for various factors including high valuation targets relative to market demand. Public Markets: It is possible that a few of the car wash platforms with strong growth and financial performance pursue an initial public offering (IPO).

Private Equity

Cooley M&A

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

After a rough 2023 , tech M&A in 2024 was slow to start but ended the year strong, with deal values up 32% from 2023 , well outpacing the overall M&A markets 10% growth in 2024. As a result, even as aggregate tech deal values increased year over year, overall deal volume was at an eight-year low and down 14% from 2023.

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