JD Supra: Mergers

JUNE 25, 2025

In the fast-paced world of mergers, acquisitions, asset sales, and private equity transactions, the excitement of growth can overshadow critical compliance details. However, unaddressed I-9 compliance issues in any M&A deal may lead to civil penalties, government inquiries, and workforce disruptions.

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JD Supra: Mergers

JANUARY 9, 2025

Small Business Administration (SBA) issued a Final Rule (Rule") that will dramatically change the landscape for the Merger and Acquisition (M&A) market for both large and small businesses.

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DECEMBER 31, 2024

As we stand on the precipice of 2025, the landscape of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is set to undergo significant transformations driven by a confluence of economic, technological, and geopolitical factors. Companies will need to conduct thorough due diligence to ensure that proposed mergers do not run afoul of regulations.

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JUNE 9, 2025

QUICK LINKS WHO WE ARE TRANSACTIONS MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP VALUATION ADVISORY INDUSTRIES RESOURCES CONTACT US SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER [PCE was] completely responsive to our needs and [was] always two steps ahead, leading us expertly through a very complicated process.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

OCTOBER 30, 2024

For example, in corporate development, you spend time evaluating potential acquisitions and partnerships/joint ventures with other firms. Will the government raid our offices? You don’t work directly on acquisitions, but they complicate forecasting and reconciliation. What Net Income do we expect over the next 5 years?

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The New York Times: Mergers, Acquisitions and Dive

MAY 23, 2025

After years in limbo, the British newspaper is set to be bought by RedBird Capital, an American investment firm with many sports, media and entertainment holdings.

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The Guardian: Mergers & Acquisitions

DECEMBER 16, 2024

UK government to retain golden share in parent company of International Distribution Services Business live latest updates The sale of Royal Mails parent company to the Czech billionaire Daniel Ketnsk has been approved by the UK government after a review under national security laws.

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The New York Times: Mergers, Acquisitions and Dive

JUNE 12, 2025

The courts are starting to rein in Big Tech.

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Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 10, 2025

About 3 years ago, I joined the team at Focus Investment Banking, where I spend my time on mergers and acquisitions and capital raising within the collision repair industry. So going back to that acquisition, say it’s Gerber pulling the trigger on this $3,000,000 in sales store doing 10% margin and they buy it for $1.5

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JD Supra: Mergers

JULY 3, 2025

government agency that administers and enforces U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that Unicat Catalyst Technologies, LLC (Unicat), a Texas-based petrochemical company, had agreed to settle its potential civil liability relating to U.S. sanctions on Iran and Venezuela. OFAC is the primary U.S.

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JD Supra: Mergers

JULY 15, 2025

President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBB) has been signed into law as of July 4, 2025, enacting widespread changes to tax policy, government spending, and social programs. based businesses and business owners, including the start-up, manufacturing, and Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) markets. By: Weintraub Tobin

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TechCrunch: M&A

JUNE 12, 2025

As part of the acquisition, which closed last week, Clay’s small team, including its co-founders Zachary Hamed and Matthew Achariam , is joining Automattic’s Other Bets Division. Beyond that, the AI bot is meant to integrate with your daily workflow. This group also includes Beeper and Gravatar.

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JD Supra: Mergers

JUNE 13, 2025

The Department of Defense (DoD) is revving its engines again—this time to rocket past its own software acquisition drag. By: McCarter & English Blog: Government Contracts

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TechCrunch: M&A

JUNE 30, 2025

Harvey, the AI-native legal tech startup, attempted to purchase vLex a year ago, but the acquisition didn’t come together, as reported by The Information last July. The acquisition comes shortly after Harvey announced a partnership with LexisNexis , aiming to enrich Harvey’s AI with LexisNexis data.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

MAY 14, 2025

Infrastructure Investment Banking Definition: In infrastructure investment banking, bankers advise companies in the data center, renewables, transportation, utilities, and energy storage/transportation markets on equity and debt issuances, asset deals, and mergers and acquisitions. Treasuries, its less impressive.

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TechCrunch: M&A

JUNE 9, 2025

Qualcomm’s acquisition of Alphawave, which makes a range of wired connectivity and compute technologies, comes a few months after the bigger chip company bought the generative AI division of Vietnamese startup VinAI, as well as internet of things company Edge Impulse. Qualcomm has agreed to acquire Alphawave Semi, a U.K. .

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JD Supra: Mergers

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Introduction - The latest EY-Parthenon Deal Barometer reveals an anticipated 12% increase in corporate mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity for the year 2024, with more than a third of CEOs actively planning to make an acquisition in the next 12 months. By: Onna Technologies, Inc.

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JD Supra: Mergers

JULY 2, 2025

On June 17, 2025, Raft announced its acquisition of N3bula Systems. military and government operations. Raft is a defense technology company that specializes in delivering autonomous data fusion, AI/ML, and data solutions tailored for U.S.

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JD Supra: Mergers

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The Small Business Administration (SBA) recently issued a proposed rule (Rule) that would significantly change a government contractor’s obligations to recertify its size and socioeconomic status under set-aside contracts and the effect of such recertifications.

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TechCrunch: M&A

JUNE 26, 2025

This acquisition aims to improve Suno’s editing capabilities for songwriters and producers. The acquisition comes on the heels of yet another lawsuit against the company. WavTool, launched in 2023, offers several tools to musicians, such as stem separation, AI audio generation, and an AI music assistant.

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TechCrunch: M&A

AUGUST 7, 2024

Hewlett Packard Enterprise's (HPE) planned $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks is one step closer to completion — the U.K.'s s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has confirmed that the deal won't face any further scrutiny. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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JD Supra: Mergers

MARCH 6, 2024

1 Relevant Authorities and Legislation - 1.1 What regulates M&A?

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JD Supra: Mergers

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Our White Collar, Government & Internal Investigations and Mergers & Acquisitions Teams explain how acquiring companies can find a limited safe harbor from enforcement when they find pre-merger misconduct. By: Alston & Bird

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TechCrunch: M&A

JUNE 27, 2025

Topics acqui-hires , AI , Commerce , Crossing Minds , Mergers and Acquisitions , OpenAI Ivan Mehta Ivan covers global consumer tech developments at TechCrunch. Boston, MA | July 15 REGISTER NOW Earlier this year, OpenAI updated ChatGPT to provide recommendations, images, and reviews for items its users ask questions about.

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Midaxo

AUGUST 16, 2023

Retention bonuses – These bonuses are typically based on the individual’s continued employment with the company for a specified period after the acquisition is completed. Q: What do you find is the best governance model particularly with small acquisitions? What makes that model better than others?

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TechCrunch: M&A

JULY 17, 2023

While a new director joined the Board in 2020, he was ousted barely a year later in 2021 following some self-serving corporate governance maneuvers geared at maintaining the underperforming status quo and the mummified Board’s grip on power. Attempts to add a new independent director as recently as 2-3 years ago were met with pushback.

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JD Supra: Mergers

AUGUST 7, 2023

This article discusses compliance “Buy America” provisions in federal procurement laws and how the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) implement some of those commitments in government contracts.

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JD Supra: Mergers

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Part 42 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (“FAR”) addresses the contract administration and audit services for federal Government contracts. As we discussed in a prior Alert, parties buying or selling a business must consider how to properly transfer the seller’s contracts to the buyer. By: Smith Anderson

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TechCrunch: M&A

JULY 7, 2023

Amazon’s planned acquisition of iRobot is now under in-depth antitrust scrutiny in the European Union. We want to ensure that the acquisition of iRobot by Amazon does not have a negative impact on businesses and consumers, by distorting competition on the relevant markets. last month. Over in the U.S., But the EU waived the $68.7

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TechCrunch: M&A

MAY 3, 2023

Databricks today announced that it has acquired Okera, a data governance platform with a focus on AI. Data governance was already a hot topic, but the recent focus on AI has highlighted some of the shortcomings of the previous approach to it, Databricks notes in today’s announcement. You can also reach us via SecureDrop.

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TechCrunch: M&A

JULY 12, 2023

The megabucks deal, which sits among the biggest tech acquisitions of all time, was always likely to attract regulatory scrutiny when it was announced way back in May last year. Europe greenlights Broadcom’s $61B VMware acquisition by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch followed suit in March.

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JD Supra: Mergers

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The UK government has released its latest annual report on the National Security and Investment (NSI) Act, covering the period from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024.

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JD Supra: Mergers

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In late January 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) released an updated operating plan in the event Congress does not pass a funding bill and the government shuts down. In a dramatic departure from prior practice, the FTC for the first time plans to also close down its premerger filing operations during such a scenario.

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JD Supra: Mergers

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

merger notification thresholds and substantially increased filing fees take effect on March 6, 2024. These thresholds determine which mergers and acquisitions must be reported to the federal government before consummation. Annual increases in U.S.

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TechCrunch: M&A

JULY 11, 2023

billion merger. The FTC sued Microsoft in December in an attempt to stop its acquisition of the gaming giant, which owns massive franchises like World of Warcraft and Call of Duty; the government body worried that the deal would “enable Microsoft to suppress competitors.” This ruling is a great sign for Microsoft.

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TechCrunch: M&A

MAY 3, 2023

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) confirmed today that it’s launching an initial “phase 1” merger inquiry, with the relevant stakeholders given a two-week period to provide comment. A full plate The Adobe-Figma acquisition is the latest in a long line of M&A transactions that the U.K. Elsewhere, U.K.

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TechCrunch: M&A

JULY 13, 2025

A Meta spokesperson has confirmed the acquisition, according to Bloomberg , which also reports that an internal memo stated that the “entire PlayAI team” will be joining the company next week. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Bloomberg had previously reported that the two companies were in acquisition talks.

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