TechCrunch: M&A

JULY 3, 2023

Tiny is based out of Canada and is publicly traded there with a current market cap of around $500 million. HappyFunCorp is being acquired with a mix of shares and cash and will continue to operate independently out of Brooklyn, New York, where it was founded, said Ben Schippers, co-founder and co-CEO, in an interview.

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Global Newswire by Notified: M&A

JANUARY 27, 2025

27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Embrace Change Acquisition Corp. Upon closing, the combined company will be renamed Tianji Tire Global Group (Cayman) Limited (the Combined Company) and expects to list its Class A ordinary shares on Nasdaq. SAN DIEGO, Jan.

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TechCrunch: M&A

AUGUST 2, 2023

The companies said that the acquisition will include tech assets, customer relationships (that is, customers using the tools) and engineering, product and go-to-market talent. All of these will be added to RingCentral’s video solutions business, adding events to its existing offerings in meetings, webinars and video “rooms.”

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How2Exit

OCTOBER 2, 2023

rn Visit [link] rn _ rn About The Guest(s): Damon Pistulka is the founder of Exit Your Way and has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, selling businesses, and helping founders build their business legacies. They also discuss the benefits of strategic buyers and the potential for cross-selling and customer acquisition.

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Sun Acquisitions

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Sun Acquisitions is pleased to announce the successful sale of Thoesen Tractor & Equipment to OKADA AIYON. Today they are a successful publicly traded international buyer located in Japan. I look forward to seeing the growth and expansion that is to come from this acquisition.

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OfficeHours

JULY 18, 2023

One of these “new” strategies that has grown in popularity over the past decade is the concept of “roll-ups” (also sometimes called “platform acquisition strategies”). This begs an important question: why do roll-ups receive a higher value than smaller acquisition targets? There are a few reasons.

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The Harvard Law School Forum

APRIL 25, 2023

Scrivano, Davis Polk & Wardell LLP, on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 Editor's Note: George Bason is partner and Chair of the Mergers and Acquisitions practice, and Andrew Ditchfield and Paul S. Posted by Andrew Ditchfield, George R. and Paul S. Scrivano are partners at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.

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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. Klarna , once Europe’s most valuable VC-backed company, suffered an 85% valuation cut, from $45.6 billion to just $6.7

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Lake Country Advisors

AUGUST 8, 2024

Market Capitalization Market capitalization is one of the simplest and most commonly used methods for valuing a publicly traded company. It is calculated by multiplying the current share price by the total outstanding shares. First, identify a group of similar publicly traded technology companies.

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Deal Law Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The threshold for certain pre-closing net benefit reviews under the Investment Canada Act (ICA) and the threshold for a pre-closing merger notification under the Competition Act have now both been released for 2021. Canada uses a two-part test for determining whether a pre-merger notification is necessary. Competition Act.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 19, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act imposes a 1% excise tax on certain repurchases of stock of publicly traded US corporations (“Covered Corporations”) effected after December 31, 2022 (the “Excise Tax”). [1] because SPAC sponsor shares are forfeited and not entitled to receive any distributions upon liquidation).

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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. ABC conducts intensive research and study into the market and informs Meena that the value of her business is Rs 2 per share. This means ABC stands to make a profit of Rs 1.5

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How2Exit

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

-Ron Here is what my team and I learned from this interview: (These are notes from team members, writers, sometimes AI, and even listeners who submitted what i learned loosely edited and shared here) - If it seems a bit crude, you're reading our notes, so. One key element to successful business acquisitions is to network.

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Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 18, 2024

There are only a few publicly traded companies in specialty consulting. But those companies have been public for more than 20 years. While the company generated over $260 million in revenues through the first three quarters of 2023, its stock price is trading under a dollar a share, as the company is burdened with substantial debt.

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Cooley M&A

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The rise of founder-led, venture capital-backed companies in recent years has coincided with a surge of companies implementing dual-class share structures in connection with their initial public offerings. In a small number of cases, a class of common stock is offered to the public that has no voting rights at all.

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Focus Investment Banking

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

I still recall the metric that was drilled into me back then: hit $50 million in revenue and a few back-to-back years of profitability and you, too, can go public. The benefits of going public are significant. Lastly, going public is a liquidity event for the founders and early investors, allowing them to cash in on their success.

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Cooley M&A

JULY 9, 2021

The Regal appraisal proceeding arose from Cineworld’s acquisition of Regal Entertainment Group in February 2018. To determine the fair value of Regal’s common stock at the effective time of the merger, the court reduced the deal price by $3.77/share, share to reflect the change in value of the target between signing and closing.

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Cooley M&A

MARCH 2, 2021

Special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) are on the rise. A SPAC is a publicly traded shell company with no underlying operating business that seeks to merge with a target operating company. SPACs are predicted to be an even higher percentage of the 2021 market share, with SPACs representing 79% of the January IPOs.

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Cooley M&A

OCTOBER 29, 2020

as it relates to both warrants and the sponsors’ promote shares, with such deviations generally resulting in less dilution to the target’s shareholders. which is unsurprising considering that the vast majority of SPACs that have announced business combinations are trading above $10.00 Fewer Redemptions. SPAC vs. IPO. Larger PIPEs.

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MergersCorp M&A International

AUGUST 9, 2024

These funds typically invest in publicly traded securities and derivatives, allowing for a wide range of investment tactics that can include long and short positions, derivatives trading, and leveraging. Exiting an investment often requires a sale, merger, or public offering of the target company.

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Software Equity Group

JANUARY 31, 2023

The merger and acquisition (M&A) process is complex, with multiple stakeholders, stages, and layers. Strategic Buyers These types of buyers run the gamut; they can be publicly traded or privately owned software companies. You don’t want to share every detail of your company too early on.

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Software Equity Group

DECEMBER 26, 2022

With record amounts of deployable capital behind them, private equity (PE) investors account for nearly 60% of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals in tech today. When looking at an M&A acquisition, there are two types of main buyers: strategic and financial. How strategic buyers approach an acquisition.

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The Harvard Law School Forum

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Wang (discussed on the Forum here ); and Share Repurchases, Equity Issuances, and the Optimal Design of Executive Pay by Jesse M. Corporations subject to the Buyback Tax (“covered corporations”) include publicly traded U.S. Related research from the Program on Corporate Governance includes Short-Termism and Capital Flows by Jesse M.

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Transactional Delights

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

share along with some modifications to the terms of the agreement to increase deal certainty [4]. Leaks usually happen when there’s a stalemate in negotiations and can skew in the target’s favor in that the target may see a pop in its publicly traded price. On Friday, October 25, the day before the leak TIF was trading at $98.55.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

The year started off with a bang, with mega-deals such as Microsoft’s pending $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter and Broadcom’s pending $61 billion acquisition of VMware inked in quick succession. Tech M&A in 2022 was a tale of two halves.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 20, 2022

1] Major all-cash acquisitions have followed, such as Arena Pharmaceutical’s agreement to sell to Pfizer for $6.7 Midsize pharmaceutical buyers pursuing opportunistic acquisition strategies, with robust capital markets and high valuations having limited the pool of attractive assets available in recent years.

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TechCrunch: M&A

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Seagate said on Thursday that it’ll pay $4 per share in a tender offer for Intevac, which is publicly traded. Seagate will initially purchase a minimum of “at least one share […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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MergersCorp M&A International

MAY 27, 2025

Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs), once hailed as the “blank check” path to public markets, have experienced a rollercoaster ride over the past few years. This acquisition, known as a “de-SPAC” transaction, effectively takes the private company public without undergoing the traditional IPO process.

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