OfficeHours

JUNE 5, 2023

Balancing debt and equity components are crucial to minimizing the cost of capital while maintaining financial flexibility. In general, this focus on cash flow will enable timely debt servicing and can allow the acquired company to bounce back stronger than ever before being taken public or spun off to another private equity firm.

Private Equity 147

Private Equity Valuation Equities Debt 147

Software Equity Group

MARCH 21, 2023

There are several resources for growth capital: debt from a lender or financial institution, minority equity financing, or majority equity financing through a control transaction. Growth debt, also called venture debt, most often comes as a principal loan accompanied by an interest payment.

Finance 52

Finance Finance Debt Equities 52

Cooley M&A

MARCH 1, 2019

Pursuing a “dual-track” process involves preparing for an initial public offering at the same time as running a private M&A process, often through an auction. These include how debt and equity can be used by the business to optimize its cost of capital. Is the IPO track suitable for (and available to) the business?

IPO 52

IPO Valuation M&A Business 52

Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

Although there were 104 initial public offerings of biotechnology companies in 2021 that raised nearly $15 billion in funds, 2022 saw only 22 such IPOs collectively raising less than $2 billion. Let’s dig in. Activists may be able to take advantage of high trading volumes to accumulate positions without early detection.

M&A 40

M&A Mergers and Acquisitions Pharmaceutical Collaboration 40

Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

While direct lenders have historically struggled to compete with the syndicated lending market on price and covenant packages, as the year progressed, sponsors increasingly spurned the syndicated lending market in favor of debt packages arranged solely by direct lenders.

M&A 52

M&A Mergers and Acquisitions Private Equity Mergers 52