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. Private equity firms acquire companies, improve their performance, and then sell them for a profit after a few years.

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Software Equity Group

MAY 7, 2024

Our most recent data, however, suggests that prospective buyers and investors place particular importance on two key factors when valuing acquisition targets: profitable growth and revenue retention. In other words, they placed a high value on profitably growing targets. As mentioned earlier, profitability earns a premium as well.

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M&A Valuation Economics Business 52

Software Equity Group

MAY 8, 2024

Our most recent data, however, suggests that prospective buyers and investors place particular importance on two key factors when valuing acquisition targets: profitable growth and revenue retention. In other words, they placed a high value on profitably growing targets. As mentioned earlier, profitability earns a premium as well.

M&A 52

M&A Valuation Economics Business 52

Software Equity Group

MARCH 13, 2023

The public markets may have taken a beating, but behind the gloom-and-doom headlines, there was still plenty of good news for private SaaS companies in 2022. On the surface, things looked rough: the Dow Jones, S&P 500, and the NASDAQ all finished the year with significant losses, with tech stocks hit particularly hard.

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M&A Private Equity Equities S&P 52

Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

Novartis announced plans to spin off its generics and biosimilars division into a publicly traded stand-alone company. We also are aware of a number of deals where buyers walked away late in discussions due to unexpected FDA or other regulatory risks, the potential impact of a transaction on profitability or the lack of board support.

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M&A Mergers and Acquisitions Pharmaceutical Collaboration 40

Software Equity Group

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Strategic buyers These types of buyers run the gamut; they can be publicly traded or privately owned software companies. A strategic buyer will most often offer all cash upfront or a mix of cash and its own stock. Some will push to maximize profit quickly. Their goals will impact how they approach the post-M&A process.

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M&A Mergers and Acquisitions Private Equity Acquisitions 52

Cooley M&A

JANUARY 22, 2021

But given the number of SPACs that went public in 2020 and have yet to announce a business combination (204 of 247), expect to see many more SPAC business combinations in 2021. As stock prices tumbled at the start of the pandemic, a cascade of companies adopted poison pills in an effort to stave off anticipated shareholder activism.

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M&A IPO Mergers and Acquisitions Business 40

Cooley M&A

JANUARY 20, 2022

Certain headwinds and other complicating factors, however, may have tamped down M&A activity in 2021, including: Antitrust regulators continuing to produce uncertainty, with the Federal Trade Commission announcing a number of key policy changes – the full impact of these policy changes on transactions remains to be seen.

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M&A Mergers and Acquisitions Pharmaceutical Mergers 40