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Cooley’s 2024 Life Sciences M&A Year in Review: M&A Slims Down in 2024, but Will Appetites Grow in 2025?

Cooley M&A

Unlike in 2023, when a Q4 dealmaking binge over the holidays led to the sector outperforming the market, life sciences M&A cut down and stuck with it throughout 2024. While global M&A deal value across sectors remained relatively flat overall , pharmaceuticals and life sciences M&A in 2024 dipped relative to the prior year.

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Mike Khouw on a hedging strategy with the market at record highs and some threats emerging

CNBC: Investing

The Pew Research Center's survey in April of 2024 showed that the number of U.S. Much of what was published at the time expressed significant concerns about some of his proposals, so much so that on July 11th, 2024, the Economist published an opinion piece entitled, "Trumponomics would not be as bad as most expect."

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UK Corporate Briefing - August 2025

JD Supra: Mergers

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Single Store Generalist Shops | Why the Era is Coming to an End with Cole Strandberg

Focus Investment Banking

I hope 2024 treated you and yours incredibly well, and I’m looking forward to an even better year in 2025. I’m sitting here at the time of this recording in the North Georgia mountains, spending the holidays with my in laws and reflecting on what a great year 2024 was and how much I’m looking forward to 2025.

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Cybersecurity M&A Update, Q2 2025

Solganick & Co.

Deal count decreased to 497 in 1H 2025, compared with 595 in 1H 2024, reflecting fewer deals overall but a significant contribution from larger deals (>$100MM). Valuation multiples for publicly traded cybersecurity companies ranged from a median of 14.2x billion in 1H 2025, up from $8.8 billion in the prior year period.

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Berkshire Hathaway hikes Sirius XM stake to 37% after a sell-off on weak earnings

CNBC: Investing

Berkshire first invested in Sirius XM after billionaire John Malone's Liberty Media completed its deal in 2024 to combine its tracking stocks with the rest of the audio entertainment company. Shares of Siri are down 4% this year after a 58% loss in 2024.

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The charts are showing app stock Life360 has more room to run

CNBC: Investing

I started studying the company and found that it was publicly traded, and the technicals and fundamentals look great. Non-GAAP EPS totaled 62 cents per share in 2024 and is expected to go to $1.03 She proclaimed that the app is a must have for pre-teens and teens and many parents use it. So, we signed up. per share in 2026.