OfficeHours

AUGUST 20, 2023

Private equity involves investing capital directly into private businesses that are not publicly traded on stock exchanges (that would be a hedge fund). Once improved, the exit can then take place, usually in the form of another sale or an Initial Public Offering (IPO), both of which are usually under the advice of an investment bank.

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Focus Investment Banking

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The benefits of going public are significant. First, there’s the ability to raise substantial capital by issuing shares to the public in an initial public offering (IPO), as well as secondary offerings. For more information, contact him at michael.mcgregor@focusbankers.com.

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Razorpay

JULY 27, 2023

Investment Banking Services Initial Public Offering (IPO) When a privately-owned business wants to become a publicly traded company, it goes through an IPO , or Initial Public Offering. There are a lot of other ways that investment banks make money, like Asset Managem ent and proprietary trading.

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Deal Law Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Many factors affect a private company’s decision to go public – whether through initial public offerings or “go-public” M&A transactions – including being the target of a reverse takeover or a special purpose acquisition company. Private Companies. Conclusion.

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Cooley M&A

MARCH 1, 2019

These include prevailing market sentiment, current appetite for acquisitions in a particular sector and the political and economic environment, all of which can change well within a given transaction timetable. The intended post-transaction ownership will also affect how the offering is structured and its viability.

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Cooley M&A

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The rise of founder-led, venture capital-backed companies in recent years has coincided with a surge of companies implementing dual-class share structures in connection with their initial public offerings. Voting agreements in public M&A transactions. Stockholder litigation. As always, ambiguity begets litigation.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

But it wasn’t all carve outs and concerned investors – even with the headwinds in the industry and beyond, there were still several traditional public M&A deals involving biotechnology or medical device companies, as large pharmaceutical companies continued to have cash to deploy for acquisitions. Let’s dig in.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

The year started off with a bang, with mega-deals such as Microsoft’s pending $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter and Broadcom’s pending $61 billion acquisition of VMware inked in quick succession. Tech M&A in 2022 was a tale of two halves.

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MergersCorp M&A International

MAY 27, 2025

Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs), once hailed as the “blank check” path to public markets, have experienced a rollercoaster ride over the past few years. This acquisition, known as a “de-SPAC” transaction, effectively takes the private company public without undergoing the traditional IPO process.

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