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Navigating the Evolving Landscape: Emerging Trends in M&A

Sun Acquisitions

Technology enables more efficient due diligence, valuation, and integration, helping companies identify opportunities and mitigate risks more effectively. Investors are also placing greater emphasis on ESG performance as a critical determinant of company valuations and investment decisions.

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Cooley’s 2023 Activism Year in Review: Wolfpacks at the Gate

Cooley M&A

As we look ahead to the 2024 proxy season (and beyond), let’s review the key 2023 trends and developments from activism playbooks, with a sharp focus on the ever-changing landscape in the technology and healthcare sectors. 10] So, what does place tech and healthcare companies in activist crosshairs? Momentum building for 2024?

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Cooley’s 2023 Life Sciences M&A Year in Review: Potent Mix of Creativity and Resilience Spurs Activity Heading Into 2024

Cooley M&A

Valuation disconnects persist In the post-COVID era, the life sciences market has experienced an increased polarization of successful and distressed companies, with sharp contrasts in liquidity and investment interest as buyers focus on de-risked assets. The results Add all those things together and what do we get? billion.

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Cooley’s 2022 Life Sciences M&A Year in Review

Cooley M&A

Amid depressed valuations, biotechnology companies also saw an increasing number of demands from activist investors that in certain cases led to more deal activity. Of course, we continue to see many parties discussing licensing deals deciding to do just that – turning to a full acquisition after initial licensing discussions.

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Cooley’s 2022 Tech M&A Year in Review

Cooley M&A

However, deal activity fizzled in the second half of 2022, as high inflation, aggressive anti-inflation monetary policies, geopolitical instability, assertive antitrust regulators and tightening financing markets depressed target valuations, reduced strategic acquirer confidence and sidelined private equity sponsor buyers. trillion. [2]

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The Re-Evolution of SPACs: Navigating a Maturing Market

MergersCorp M&A International

The Basics At its core, a SPAC is a shell company with no commercial operations, formed solely to raise capital through an Initial Public Offering (IPO) with the express purpose of acquiring an existing private company. What is a SPAC? The capital is already raised, reducing market uncertainty.

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Cooley’s 2024 Life Sciences M&A Year in Review: M&A Slims Down in 2024, but Will Appetites Grow in 2025?

Cooley M&A

This approach, combining M&A and initial public offering (IPO) preparations on parallel tracks, allows companies to maximize optionality in an uncertain market. billion acquisition of Catalent, a leader in contract manufacturing for cell and gene therapies, stands out as the largest healthcare deal of 2024.

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