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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

Portfolio optimization through divestitures of noncore assets In addition to pharmas smaller appetite in 2024, pharma companies continued to slim down by shedding nonessential assets to sharpen their strategic focus on core products. 2] Novo Holdings $16.5

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Infrastructure Investment Banking: Definitions, Deals, and a Dizzying Diversity of Verticals

Mergers and Inquisitions

Like renewable energy IB , different banks classify their groups differently, so you could find yourself working on everything from a data center REIT M&A deal to an airport financing to an IPO for a solar developer. It even includes elements of healthcare , industrials , and oil & gas investment banking.

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Best Stocks: Three healthcare names to ponder including a biotech back to levels not seen in a decade

CNBC: Investing

Josh here — The healthcare sector has entered the chat. Josh here — The healthcare sector has entered the chat. There are 12 healthcare names now on our Best Stocks list as of the end of last week. I'll show you a few of these set-ups below and then Sean's going to share some fundamentals for these healthcare firms.

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The Full Guide to Healthcare Private Equity, from Careers to Contradictions

Mergers and Inquisitions

When you hear the words “healthcare private equity,” two thoughts probably come to mind: Wait a minute, isn’t healthcare a risky/growth-oriented sector? In most of the world, healthcare is either government-run or a mixed public/private sector. Are there many private healthcare companies for PE firms to acquire?

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Growth Equity: The Child Prodigy of Private Equity and Venture Capital, or an Artifact of Easy Money?

Mergers and Inquisitions

This style is about purchasing minority stakes in cash-flow-negative-but-high-growth companies that want to scale and eventually go public or sell (think: Uber or Airbnb before their IPOs). Many of these firms use debt to fund deals, and they complete bolt-on acquisitions for portfolio companies. What accounts for the difference?

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Venture Capital Interview Questions: What to Expect and How to Prepare

Mergers and Inquisitions

Firm-Specific and Process Questions – What do you think about our portfolio? You can also link this back to tech or healthcare companies you’ve advised or earlier-stage businesses where your work made a difference. A: This one should relate directly to your research on the firm, including their target markets and portfolio companies.

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Covid-19 and US Venture Capital in 2020

InvestmentBank.com

In September 2020, the National Bureau of Economic Research released a working paper including an industry survey citing 900+ VC firms; this paper revealed a consensus that many portfolio companies were performing quite well in the face of Covid-19 and less than 10% were performing at levels that would raise significant concerns [3] [10].

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