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How DOJ's Safe Harbor Policy Rewards Honesty Within M&A Deals

JD Supra: Mergers

Be you a merger and acquisition attorney, corporate compliance officer, or counsel to an acquiring entity or target entity, you should review the Department of Justice’s new Merger and Acquisition Safe Harbor Policy (“Policy”) to enhance your law firm’s diligence process, to educate your company’s compliance personnel, and/or to incorporate procedures to report criminal conduct in your company’s operation standards.

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Was HPE’s $14B Juniper acquisition a wise move?

TechCrunch: M&A

As you’ll see, the companies think the numbers look pretty good, and they really do match up well (so long as HPE doesn’t mess it up). © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Your Cohesive Team Can Move Together

H. Friedman Search

Man has been and always will be a social animal. We like to be around people. The recluse of society is shunned, but the social ones are enamored. As 2024 has started, individual bond counsels and public finance bankers don’t want to make a move themselves. However, they would readily engage if they had a cohesive team move together. This is definitely a trend that I have seen increasing since we are at the tail end of the COVID experience.

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JPMorgan sees Tesla dropping another 30%, says falling profits don't support high valuation

CNBC: Investing

Analyst Ryan Brinkman cut JPMorgan's stock price target for Tesla to $130, which would imply about 30% downside from Thursday's close of $182.63.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Governance Insights: 10 Trends that GCs and Boards Need to Know

JD Supra: Mergers

The latest edition of Davies’ Governance Insights is now available. In this issue, we explore 10 important trends that will help general counsel and boards navigate the year ahead. In order to help you with your strategic and compliance planning, we discuss issues including the re-emergence of shareholder activism, the continuing advance of artificial intelligence (AI), environmental disclosure obligations for public companies, new mandatory tax reporting rules and recent court decisions.

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Is Cryptocurrency Like Stocks and Bonds? Courts Move Closer to an Answer.

The New York Times: Banking

Federal judges are weighing whether digital currencies should be subject to the same rules as stocks and bonds. The outcome could shape crypto’s future in the U.S.

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Stock market hits new high after 2 years, overcoming a nasty inflation period and surging rates

CNBC: Investing

When the S&P was at roughly today's level two years ago, little did investors know it was walking into the nastiest inflation episode in 50 years.

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The year in review – a close look at China’s merger control since the amendment of the Anti-Monopoly Law

JD Supra: Mergers

Looking back on the year 2023, this alert aims to give an update on the state of play in Chinese merger control. In particular, it looks at how merger control has evolved since China’s main antitrust statute – the Anti-Monopoly Law – was amended for the first time in summer 2022. We will look at the string of important decisions by China’s antitrust regulator adopted over the past few months, as well as new or planned AML implementing rules in the merger control field.

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The Growth Equity Case Study: Real-Life Example and Tutorial

Mergers and Inquisitions

Let’s start with the elephant in the room: yes, we’ve covered the growth equity case study before, but I’m doing it again because I don’t think the previous examples were great. They over-complicated the financial model (e.g., minutiae about issues like OID for debt issuances ) and did not accurately represent a 1- or 2-hour case study. So, you can think of this example and tutorial as “Growth Equity Case Study: The Final Form.

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Predictions You Can Rely On: How Data Drives Successful Financial Forecasting

Speaker: Robbie Bhathal, Founder & CEO, and Matthew Acalin, Head of Credit Intelligence

In today's volatile financial environment, how confident are you in your company’s financial forecasting? To get the most accurate cash predictions that will lead to long-term financial survival, real-time data is critical. Innovative cash management strategies can lead to better credit opportunities, more sustainable growth, and long-term financial prosperity.

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GTN appoints new equity sales trader

The TRADE

Omar Darwish has joined fintech pioneer GTN as equity sales trader following a three-and-a-half-year stint at Arqaam Capital. His appointment comes as GTN continues its expansion efforts to build a comprehensive electronic trading and investment platform. Prior to his appointment as equity sales trader at Arqaam Capital in 2020, Darwish was director at Beltone Financial and before that worked as VP sales trader at Renaissance Capital.

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Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood adds more than $32 million worth of Tesla shares amid 12% sell-off

CNBC: Investing

Ark Invest piled into Tesla shares Thursday as the EV company sold off drastically after weak earnings and a slowdown warning.

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It’s That Time of Year: Announcement of the New Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Filing Thresholds

JD Supra: Mergers

The Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (“HSR”) requires that transactions over a certain value be reported at least 30 days prior to closing to the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (“DOJ,” collectively, the “Agencies”). The FTC adjusts the HSR reporting thresholds annually based on the change in gross national product.

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Boeing’s Problems Started Long Before the Alaska Airlines Mishap

The New York Times: Mergers, Acquisitions and Dive

The aircraft company is paying the price for a shift in its corporate culture made decades ago.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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Cisco U. Wins Silver at Prestigious Awards

Cisco: M&A

When Cisco U. was released for general availability last year, we quickly realized we had developed an experience that was built around the user. But more than that, Cisco U.

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Analyst Dan Ives blasts Tesla, calls earnings a 'train wreck' and cuts price target

CNBC: Investing

The analyst told clients that Tesla's botched earnings call has shaken Wedbush's near-term confidence in the company's story.

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FTC Announces Hart-Scott-Rodino Act Thresholds and Filing Fees for 2024

JD Supra: Mergers

Seyfarth Synopsis: On January 22, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that the 2024 threshold for applying the size-of-parties test of the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act will increase from $111.4 million to $119.5 million. Deals that exceed this $119.5 million threshold may need to be reported to the FTC and U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) depending on the size of the parties to the transaction as measured by the volume of their sales or the value of their assets.

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How DLT could help with green bonds

Accenture Capital Markets

As world leaders gathered in Dubai for the COP28 summit last month, the battle against climate change has returned to the top of the public, political and business agendas. But whatever commitments were made by governments and corporations alike (e.g., around reducing carbon emissions), what will really matter is that the delivery against these commitments is both credible and provable.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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Protecting your big ideas with intellectual property insurance

Growth Business

By Dom Walbanke on Growth Business - Your gateway to entrepreneurial success For many high-growth companies, a lot of the book value is based on intellectual property. These intangible ideas could be exceptionally valuable and underpin future growth and financial success – and they should be covered by intellectual property insurance. What is intellectual property insurance?

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Retail investors are worried bitcoin will plunge below $20,000 this year, Deutsche Bank survey says

CNBC: Investing

Crypto skeptics aren't changing their tune just because they can now gain bitcoin exposure through an ETF, according to a Deutsche Bank survey.

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HSR Act Threshold Update

JD Supra: Mergers

On January 22, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the Revised Jurisdictional Thresholds for Section 7A of the Clayton Act to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (HSR Act).

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Rainmaker Worldwide Inc. Finalizes the Acquisition of Miranda Water Treatment Systems

Global Newswire by Notified: M&A

PETERBOROUGH, Ontario, Jan. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NewMediaWire -- Rainmaker Worldwide Inc., Ontario, (“RWI”) a subsidiary of Rainmaker Worldwide Inc., Nevada (“Rainmaker” or “RAKR”) and Miranda Water Treatment Systems (“Miranda”) have finalized the transfer of Miranda shares and Michael Skinner, managing partner of Viva Industries Inc., has assumed the role of Chairman and CEO of Miranda.

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.

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Private equity-backed Lemay merges with Fusion Énergie

PE Hub

Fusion Énergie is a Laval, Quebec-based provider of energy saving and control tools. The post Private equity-backed Lemay merges with Fusion Énergie appeared first on PE Hub.

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Surging U.S. oil production may set a record in 2024, shielding consumers from Mideast war and pressuring OPEC

CNBC: Investing

By the end of last year, the U.S. was producing more oil than any other country in history, according to S&P.

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FTC Updates HSR and Clayton Act Thresholds; Increases Civil Penalties for Violations

JD Supra: Mergers

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the annual changes to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act notification thresholds. The HSR Act requires all persons contemplating certain mergers or acquisitions, which meet or exceed the jurisdictional thresholds, to file notification with the FTC and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and to wait a designated period of time before consummating such transactions.

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These ‘Magnificent’ Seven Tech Stocks Are Driving the Market

The New York Times: Banking

See how a handful of stocks have had an outsize impact on the performance of the S&P 500

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Embedded Analytics Insights for 2024

Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format. To better understand the factors behind the decision to build or buy analytics, insightsoftware partnered with Hanover Research to survey IT, software development, and analytics professionals on why they make the embedded analytics choices they do.

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KV Capital acquires UTV Canada to merge with MSD

PE Hub

UTV Canada is a Leduc, Alberta-based distributor and retailer of all-terrain vehicles and utility task vehicles parts and accessories. The post KV Capital acquires UTV Canada to merge with MSD appeared first on PE Hub.

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Berkshire Hathaway is trading at record highs, and UBS thinks it can rise another 15%

CNBC: Investing

Berkshire shares just reached to an all-time high, and one analyst thinks the conglomerate's stock is still attractively priced and sees double digit upside.

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FTC Increases the HSR Reporting Thresholds, Filing Fees and Thresholds, and Maximum Civil Penalties for 2024

JD Supra: Mergers

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has now announced the adjusted Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) thresholds, filing fees and thresholds, and civil monetary penalties for the new year. The HSR Act requires parties to certain mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, consolidations, and other transactions to file premerger notification and report forms with the FTC and the Antitrust Division of the U.S.