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French VC firm Founders Future just acquired an equity crowdfunding platform, Sowefund

TechCrunch: M&A

Founders Future, a well-known VC firm in the French tech ecosystem, acquired an equity crowdfunding marketplace called Sowefund. Here’s an interesting move. While terms of the deal remain undisclosed, Sowefund has been profitable since 2022 with around 20 employees.

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Private Equity: Family Offices Stay Bullish on PE Funds & Direct Investments

Deal Lawyers

Family offices have become increasingly important players in the space traditionally occupied by private equity and venture capital funds. These excerpts summarize some of the Survey’s […]

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FTC Challenges Private Equity Roll-Up Acquisition Strategy

JD Supra: Mergers

Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) antitrust lawsuit against a private-equity owner of a large anesthesiology practice in Texas demonstrates that the FTC has begun to implement its more aggressive focus on the perceived competitive harms caused by certain “roll-up” acquisition strategies.

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Handling Equity Awards in M&A Transactions

Deal Lawyers

The first topic covered by the blog was how to deal with outstanding target equity awards. Typically, those awards are into buyer equity awards and new hires and incoming employees may also be granted additional awards. […]

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FTC Sues Private Equity Firm and Anesthesia Group Alleging Unlawful Monopolization in Texas Market

JD Supra: Mergers

USAP”), and the private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (“Welsh Carson”), which created USAP, executed a multi-year anticompetitive scheme to consolidate anesthesiology practices in Texas, drive up the price of anesthesia services provided to Texas patients and boost their own profits. Anesthesia Partners, Inc.

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Equity Rollovers

JD Supra: Mergers

Proactive tax planning is the best way to ensure rollover equity structures accomplish the parties’ objectives. Our Federal Tax Group sheds light on the tax consequences of a common merger and acquisition (M&A) transaction for both selling and retaining an interest in a business. By: Alston & Bird

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Is Private Equity Right for You?

OfficeHours

To know if the buyside is right for you, let’s start with a textbook understanding of “What is private equity?” Private equity involves investing capital directly into private businesses that are not publicly traded on stock exchanges (that would be a hedge fund). Strategic thinking skills are essential.