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Best Practices for Due Diligence and Valuation in M&A

Sun Acquisitions

Common Valuation Methods: Comparable Company Analysis: Compare the target company to similar publicly traded companies. Valuation: Determining the Fair Valu e Valuation is the process of determining a company’s fair market value. Accurate valuation is essential for successful M&A deals.

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SPACs: A Path to Public Markets That Shouldn’t Be Overlooked

MergersCorp M&A International

This “target” company is one that the sponsors believe has strong growth potential and would benefit from becoming publicly traded. The Search and Due Diligence: With the capital raised, the SPAC sponsors embark on a search for a private company to acquire, often within a specific industry or sector they know well.

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Investing Principles: Lessons Learned from 20 Years of Wins, Losses, and Strikeouts

Mergers and Inquisitions

Main Quests and Side Quests: Always focus on your main story quest, i.e., your portfolio of liquid, publicly traded assets, and ignore or deprioritize the side quests, such as becoming a mini-VC or investing in real estate. Market Timing: Almost every expert will tell you its impossible to time the market, but I partially disagree.

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Sports Investment Banking: How to Win the Super Bowl and the World Cup in the Same Year

Mergers and Inquisitions

However, one common point across all the verticals is that IPOs are not common because there aren’t that many publicly traded sports teams, stadiums, or arenas. A few smaller European football clubs also happen to be publicly traded (Ajax, Celtic, etc.). Madison Square Garden hires ex-bankers and consultants for these roles).

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Stay away from Goldman Sachs after monster rally this year, Citizens says

CNBC: Investing

"We believe we had a differentiated call over the years as the company was gaining more market share in its Institutional business than we believe was widely appreciated while it had also raised more AUM than most publicly traded Alternative Asset Managers, with a substantial earnings runway ahead for that business — which we argued should also (..)

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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

Public company deals: Smaller bites in more focused therapeutic areas The landscape for public company sales in the life sciences sector in 2024 was notably quieter than expected, with anticipated high-profile deals failing to materialize.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Selling a Middle-Market Business

Lake Country Advisors

While not as large as publicly traded corporations, these entities usually have more robust governance and financial reporting than smaller businesses. Many experts define a middle-market enterprise by its annual revenue, often ranging from around ten million dollars to several hundred million, although definitions can vary by industry.