TechCrunch: M&A

JULY 27, 2023

Meanwhile, publicly traded BNPL companies like Affirm and Australia’s Zip have seen their share prices plummet; Affirm was recently forced to shut down its crypto unit and lay off 19% of its staff. million users to the platform, and comes as Upgrade weighs an IPO. billion to just $6.7

Finance

Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 18, 2024

In that environment, very few firms sought IPOs, and there was a major slowdown in overall exits, whether private or public. And will that mean that some of the privately held management consulting firms or other professional services companies will choose an IPO this year? Contact Kelly at Kelly.Kittrell@focusbankers.com.

IPO

How2Exit

APRIL 8, 2024

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Global Newswire by Notified: M&A

JANUARY 15, 2025

BurTech) (NASDAQ: BRKH), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, and Blaize, Inc. WASHINGTON and EL DORADO HILLS, Calif., 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BurTech Acquisition Corp.

Underwriting

Cooley M&A

MARCH 1, 2019

Even where pre-IPO holders are able to participate in a hybrid primary-secondary IPO, the transaction will not serve as a complete exit for pre-IPO holders since new investors will ensure that they retain significant skin in the game. Is the IPO track suitable for (and available to) the business?

IPO

Focus Investment Banking

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The benefits of going public are significant. First, there’s the ability to raise substantial capital by issuing shares to the public in an initial public offering (IPO), as well as secondary offerings. So over the last 30 years, fewer and fewer companies have been going public. Today, the number of U.S.

Private Equity

Razorpay

JULY 27, 2023

Investment banking is a branch of banking that organizes and enables large, complex financial transactions for businesses, like mergers, IPOs or underwriting. Investment Banking Services Initial Public Offering (IPO) When a privately-owned business wants to become a publicly traded company, it goes through an IPO , or Initial Public Offering.

Investment Banking

Cooley M&A

OCTOBER 29, 2020

is the increased frequency at which SPAC IPOs are occurring. As reflected in Chart 1 , 102 SPAC IPOs have been announced this year as of September 18, 2020—almost double the number of SPAC IPOs in all of last year (and more than double the number of SPAC IPOs in 2018). SPAC vs. IPO. A distinct feature of SPAC 3.0

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MergersCorp M&A International

OCTOBER 15, 2024

SPACs are publicly traded companies that raise capital through an initial public offering (IPO) with the primary aim of acquiring an existing private company, thereby enabling it to go public without undergoing the traditional IPO process.

Mergers and Acquisitions

Cooley M&A

MARCH 2, 2021

A SPAC is a publicly traded shell company with no underlying operating business that seeks to merge with a target operating company. According to Nasdaq , in 2015, SPACs made up approximately 12% of the IPO market, but by 2020, that number had risen to approximately 53%. What is a SPAC.

Securities

OfficeHours

AUGUST 9, 2023

Private equity involves investing capital directly into private businesses that are not publicly traded on stock exchanges (that would be a hedge fund). Once improved, the exit can then take place, usually in the form of another sale or an Initial Public Offering (IPO), both of which are usually under the advice of an investment bank.

Private Equity

Cooley M&A

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

There are compelling rationales for adopting a dual-class structure, but even proponents of the structure generally acknowledge that these benefits are significantly mitigated once the dual-class shares are out of the hands of the founders and/or pre-IPO stockholders. Voting agreements in public M&A transactions.

M&A

OfficeHours

OCTOBER 16, 2023

First, private equity identifies the publicly traded company they believe is undervalued or could perform better as a private entity without the pressures of being a public entity (e.g. Clearly, there is a high level of interest in this space for private investors and it is an important transaction type to be aware of for any investor.

Investors

OfficeHours

OCTOBER 23, 2023

First, private equity identifies the publicly traded company they believe is undervalued or could perform better as a private entity without the pressures of being a public entity (e.g. After a certain period of time, usually 5-7 years, the PE firm will look to exit the investment.

Investors

OfficeHours

AUGUST 20, 2023

Private equity involves investing capital directly into private businesses that are not publicly traded on stock exchanges (that would be a hedge fund). Once improved, the exit can then take place, usually in the form of another sale or an Initial Public Offering (IPO), both of which are usually under the advice of an investment bank.

Private Equity

The TRADE

JULY 11, 2023

.” The review consists of seven recommendations including the introduction of a Research Platform, which will provide a central facility for the promotion, sourcing and dissemination of research on publicly traded companies – potentially open to all, but in particular, for smaller cap companies.

Asset Management

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. Novartis announced plans to spin off its generics and biosimilars division into a publicly traded stand-alone company. Let’s dig in.

M&A

Software Equity Group

OCTOBER 22, 2024

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Valuation

Cooley M&A

JANUARY 22, 2021

2020 was also a blockbuster year for special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) activity, as 247 SPAC IPOs raised more than $75 billion (a 525% increase compared to the amount raised by SPAC IPOs in 2019) [3]. Creative deal terms and financing arrangements were also attractive aspects of SPAC deals as compared to their IPO cousin.

M&A

Cooley M&A

JANUARY 20, 2022

For example, early in 2021, Zimmer Biomet Holdings announced that it would spin off its spine and dental businesses into a new publicly traded company as a way to “optimize resource allocation” among its remaining businesses. Although the SPAC craze was (re)ignited in 2020, the volume of SPAC activity hit all?time time highs in 2021.

M&A

Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

Faced with depressed venture funding activity (which for digital health declined nearly 50% from 2021 ), an uncertain IPO market and pressure to provide liquidity to investors, M&A offered digital health startups a solution to deliver liquidity, streamline costs and bridge funding gaps as they continue to develop their products.

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MergersCorp M&A International

MAY 27, 2025

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. If approved, the private company effectively becomes the publicly traded entity, inheriting the SPAC’s listing.

IPO

Focus Investment Banking

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Traditional terminal exit routes for private equity-backed companies are to larger strategic acquirers (often public companies) and IPOs, where a private company becomes publicly traded. It is also likely that IPOs will come to PPM, perhaps first to those specialties with the largest assets (e.g.,

Private Equity