JD Supra: Mergers

MAY 1, 2024

While no one has a crystal ball, and no in-house counsel can correctly predict every future dispute, examining litigation trends and data can help companies and their legal departments identify and avoid many risks when engaging in M&A transactions or regulatory compliance activities. Litigation rarely occurs in a vacuum.

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Midaxo

AUGUST 2, 2023

The most recent Transaction Advisors Institute (TAI) M&A conference was held at the University of Chicago in late June and covered topics ranging from current challenges impacting complex transactions to innovative methods to improve deal performance. Key M&A Takeaways for Q2 2023 1.

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TechCrunch: M&A

DECEMBER 25, 2023

It was a slow year in enterprise technology M&A, and the total was the second lowest since we started compiling the data in 2018. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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JD Supra: Mergers

APRIL 16, 2024

Supreme Court, weighing in on shareholder and M&A litigation issues. 2023 was a busy year, with both the Delaware courts and others, including the U.S.

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JD Supra: Mergers

MAY 2, 2024

Dealmaking in the life sciences sector comes with characteristics not typically seen in more traditional mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Deals often involve negotiating around complexities associated with both the unique nature of assets of life sciences companies and the unique industry ecosystem that brings these assets to life.

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JD Supra: Mergers

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Our M&A team is honored to have represented clients in some of the most compelling transactions in 2023—from advising SoftBank on two acquisitions of public companies in the robotics space, to partnering with sustainable food chain investing firm Paine Schwartz Partners and Special New Fruit Licensing (SNFL) on SNFL’s combination with International (..)

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JD Supra: Mergers

APRIL 8, 2024

Delaware courts recently issued important decisions that impact M&A dealmakers and lawyers. In this post, we dive into two cases that serve as a reminder that Delaware grounds review of corporate actions in statutory requirements and not market practice, no matter how prevalent.

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JD Supra: Mergers

MAY 18, 2023

Tech valuations fell through the second half 2022 and M&A in the sector shifted gears producing a rise in lower-value deals, particularly among private equity (PE) firms.

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JD Supra: Mergers

MARCH 12, 2024

Buoyed by healthy GDP growth and rising consumer confidence, Indonesian M&A has been on a roll in recent years. Southeast Asia’s largest economy has largely evaded macroeconomic headwinds such as high inflation and weakening demand, which have dampened growth in Western economies. By: White & Case LLP

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JD Supra: Mergers

APRIL 30, 2024

A common topic of negotiation in M&A transactions is how to treat performance-vesting equity awards for which the relevant performance period is not yet completed as of the closing of the deal. By: Morgan Lewis - ML Benefits

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JD Supra: Mergers

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Morrison Foerster is pleased to share with our clients and friends the results of our 2023 Tech M&A Survey, published in conjunction with Mergermarket. Mergermarket surveyed 300 dealmakers from around the world in order to gain valuable insights into the future of technology-related M&A. By: MoFo Tech

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JD Supra: Mergers

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Share on Twitter Print Share by Email Share Back to top There seems to be a much more positive outlook when discussing the potential for M&A activity in 2024, and that includes the potential for deals across the pond. The survey showed that 88% of UK corporates have a positive outlook for M&A activity in 2024, and they’re.

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JD Supra: Mergers

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The new mandatory suspensory M&A notification obligation – up and running since October – has significantly increased the regulatory burden for deals with an EU nexus. It aims to regulate subsidies granted by non-EU countries to ensure that they do not distort competition in the EU internal market. By: Allen & Overy LLP

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JD Supra: Mergers

MARCH 11, 2024

As we all know, M&A activity in 2023 was down compared to 2022. In the first nine months of 2023, global deal volumes declined 29% (year on year) and in Q3 2023 we saw the worst performance from an M&A perspective in 11 years, with only 6,730 transactions, worth US$719bn in aggregate. By: Hogan Lovells

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JD Supra: Mergers

APRIL 8, 2024

The National Security Division (NSD) of the Department of Justice announced a new self-disclosure policy on March 7, 2024 (M&A Policy) that impacts corporations, private equity firms, and venture capital firms and their merger and acquisition activities. By: Allen & Overy LLP

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JD Supra: Mergers

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In this podcast, Sergio Leal, who until recently was head of M&A compliance at Ericsson along with Jan Sprafke, the company’s chief compliance officer, share their advice for compliance professionals in the midst of a transaction.

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JD Supra: Mergers

MARCH 28, 2024

Please join Williams Mullen attorneys Jon Bliley and Rakesh Parikh as they discuss the latest trends in middle-market M&A, touching on several topics, including rep & warranty insurance and indemnification. By: Williams Mullen

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JD Supra: Mergers

APRIL 26, 2024

Our Tax Group sheds light on recent IRS rulings that disallow deductions involving success-based fees in M&A transactions. Contrary to common practice, the IRS recently ruled target companies could not deduct success-based fees in certain situations. By: Alston & Bird

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Deal Lawyers

APRIL 30, 2024

It addresses recent developments in M&A activity, activism and antitrust, directors’ fiduciary duties in the M&A context, key aspects of the deal-making process, deal protections and methods to enhance deal certainty, takeover preparedness, responding to hostile offers, structural alternatives and […]

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Midaxo

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Inorganic growth through M&A and corporate development has become an integral strategy for companies seeking innovation and competitive advantage. The Evolution of M&A Playbooks A playbook is essentially a roadmap for the M&A process. M&A is not just a series of transactions. It’s a learning journey.

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JD Supra: Mergers

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

2023 was a challenging year for mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Whilst M&A in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region (EMEA) remained resilient in the first half of 2023, deal activity fell in the second half of the year.

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JD Supra: Mergers

APRIL 18, 2024

United States and global M&A rebounded in the first quarter of 2024, powered by the return of mega deals worth US$10 billion or more. According to Bloomberg, global deal values are up about 21 percent year-on-year to more than US$660 billion in the first three months of the year, with the United States leading the charge.

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JD Supra: Mergers

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

2023 was a fairly gloomy year for global M&A activity and the insurance sector did not emerge unscathed, recording its lowest deals count since 20201.

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JD Supra: Mergers

JANUARY 4, 2024

M&A activity in 2023 was subdued, as dealmakers grappled with geopolitical tensions, inflation, rising interest rates, and increasing regulatory scrutiny, against a backdrop of general economic uncertainty. Challenges in the U.S. banking sector in the early part of the year also took their toll. By: Morrison & Foerster LLP

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JD Supra: Mergers

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Despite the ongoing political instability, Bulgaria has seen a recovery in M&A activity and offers significant opportunities to investors. By: Ius Laboris

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JD Supra: Mergers

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Welcome to our year-end edition of M&A Insights, where we preview some of the themes we expect to shape deal-making over the next 12 months. Continued volatility in the debt markets has resulted in another subdued year for M&A, with global deal value and volume down 33% and 18% respectively compared with 2022.

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Deal Lawyers

MAY 9, 2024

This recent SSC/Intralinks blog discusses how natural language processing (NLP), an AI-powered machine learning technology, may be about to transform M&A.

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JD Supra: Mergers

JANUARY 8, 2024

In October 2023, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced a new policy regarding M&A. We continue our review of DOJ initiatives from 2023 and what they may portend for the compliance professional in 2024 and beyond. By: Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

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JD Supra: Mergers

MARCH 7, 2024

Global M&A was laid low by market headwinds in 2023, with a cocktail of high inflation, geopolitical tensions and macroeconomic uncertainty causing activity to slow. Mexico was no exception to this trend, with dealmaking falling from strong post-pandemic performances logged in 2021 and 2022. By: White & Case LLP

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Deal Lawyers

APRIL 11, 2024

One of those lessons is despite the lull in M&A activity in recent periods, M&A demands still feature prominently in activist campaigns: A vocal push for (or against) M&A has been a core […]

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JD Supra: Mergers

DECEMBER 7, 2023

There is a wealth of dry powder to spend but 2023 has seen M&A deal activity hampered by rising costs of debt, unstable markets, supply chain issues, general political uncertainty, and fear of global recession. So, what does 2024 have in store for European M&A? By: Proskauer Rose LLP

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JD Supra: Mergers

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Observations from Two of SoCal’s Leading Transaction Attorneys- What can buyers and sellers expect from the M&A market in 2024? Procopio Mergers & Acquisitions and Strategic Joint Ventures leaders Paul Johnson and Jason Femrite break it down in this Q&A interview. By: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

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Midaxo

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

That is especially true for organizations working in corporate development and M&A, where preventing unauthorized user access and protecting the confidentiality of data is paramount. Studies confirm that cloud-based M&A platforms are more secure and better able to respond to security challenges than generic, standalone tools.

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JD Supra: Mergers

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Through the end of the third quarter of 2023, we saw a lull in M&A activity across the board, including the tech sector. CB Insights published their Tech M&A Q3 Report, looking at global M&A activity. As we kick off the December sprint to the end of the year, however, we are seeing a strong pick-up in the action.

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JD Supra: Mergers

JANUARY 29, 2024

trillion – the lowest level since 2013 – the question in the corporate world, is: ‘Will M&A roar back in 2024?’. After a sluggish 2023 in which global merger and acquisition activity fell almost 20% to $2.87 By: Adams and Reese LLP

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TechCrunch: M&A

JANUARY 13, 2024

M&A is expected to rise in 2024, but we won't likely see a lot of consolidation among startups that wouldn't make it on their own. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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JD Supra: Mergers

JANUARY 31, 2024

In mergers and acquisitions, both the seller and the buyer may need to include employment-related provisions in the M&A documentation. We have gathered together the most frequent and significant employment provisions for these types of transactions. By: Ius Laboris

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