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Troutman Pepper

Failing Forward: How to Raise a Successful Down-Round in 2023

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What’s a founder to do? Banks are collapsing; interest rates continue to creep upward; the IPO window remains limited; but growth-stage companies need capital and can only cut costs so much. With continued economic tightness...more

Cooley LLP

Navigating the Downturn: Biotech Financing Trends

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Key takeaways - In 2022, markets have exhibited volatility and general weakness across the board, in part due to inflation and corresponding interest rate hikes. As a result, equity capital markets have had their slowest...more

Jones Day

2021 Transactional Year in Review and 2022 Forecast

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TRANSACTIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON 2022 - What are the trends, risks, and opportunities in 2022? As dealmakers recover from a record-breaking 2021, we expect another busy year in 2022. While risks in the financing market,...more

MoFo Tech

AI TRENDS FOR 2022 - AI INDUSTRY POISED FOR SUCCESSFUL 2022

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The AI industry continues to mature as venture investment increased significantly in 2021 and exit values for venture-backed AI companies significantly outpaced venture investment in AI companies in 2021. According to...more

Fenwick & West Life Sciences Group

The Most-Funded Year Ever for Digital Health Startups – New Trends, Opportunities Emerge in Q3

At the end of Q3, aggregate funding raised by digital health startups in 2021 surpassed $20 billion. Although 2021 continues to be a record-breaking year for digital health startups, investors gently tapped the breaks in Q3....more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Caribou Biosciences Raises $304M in Potentially the Largest Gene Editing IPO

Caribou Biosciences, Inc., a Berkeley, California-based CRISPR genome-editing biopharmaceutical company, raised $304M in an initial public offering, one of the most lucrative IPOs in gene-editing. In June 2021, Gene editing...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

PE Views: Insights on the World of Private Equity - March 2021

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Creative Uses of Collateral Present New Financing Opportunities for PE - Raising fresh capital for portfolio companies in times of financial stress is always a delicate balancing act between attracting new lenders and...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Fintech Sector Financing Update

Funding in the fintech sector increased 17% quarter-over-quarter, after two quarters of declines, to $9.3 billion according to CB Insights’ recent State of Fintech report. Despite the funding increase, the number of deals...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Life Sciences Snapshot: A Quarterly Report on Financing Trends - Companies & Investors Navigate the Pandemic Era Q2 2020

In this edition of Orrick’s series of life sciences publications, we offer a market update drawing on a variety of PitchBook datasets depicting macro trends in financing across the market, as well as a spotlight on any trends...more

WilmerHale

In Case You Missed It: Launch Links - June 2020 #2

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Some interesting links we found across the web this week: Experience Matters When Choosing Your Early Stage Startup Team - An important hiring skill is understanding how to optimize costs while also increasing your...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

VC Update—The Return of the Down Round

COVID-19 has brought back financing terms not seen in the VC market since the last financial crisis. As valuations of public company comparables crumble and VCs engage in stricter price discipline, start-ups able to raise...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 2.14.2020 | Top Story: Amazon Wins Injunction of JEDI Cloud-Computing Contract

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In a massive win for Amazon (because, again, Jeff NEEDS it), Court of Federal Claims Judge Patricia Campbell-Smith has granted the company’s motion for an injunction halting Microsoft’s work on the $10 billion cloud-computing...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

A New Financing Environment: 2019 Tech Sector Trends in Review

The financing environment for startup companies in the technology sector has changed substantially over the last few years. As evidenced by findings in CB Insights’ latest report, The 2020 Tech IPO Pipeline, tech companies...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

A longer road to going public: Private financing trends in 2019

The third quarter of 2019 saw a slight decrease in venture private capital funding levels according to PwC and CB Insights’ recently published MoneyTree report. Approximately $25.9 billion was raised across 1,304 deals,...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Global Fintech Financing Trends

CBInsights recently published its Q2 2019 Global Fintech Report. Although there were 838 deals worth $15.1 billion completed during the first half of 2019, this represents a significant decline from 2018 levels, both in...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: Q3 2018 Quarterly VC Update: Bruce Booth on the State of Venture Capital Investing

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In conjunction with our Q3 Venture Financing Report, I sat down with Bruce Booth from Atlas Venture to get his take on the state of venture capital investing. On deal terms: The pendulum is definitely favoring entrepreneurs...more

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Blog: Q2 2018 Quarterly VC Update: Stephen Kraus on the State of Venture Capital Investing

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In conjunction with our Q2 Venture Financing Report, I sat down with Stephen Kraus from Bessemer Venture Partners to get his take on the state of venture capital investing. A few highlights from Stephen Kraus - On deal...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

US Capital Markets Expected to Remain Robust in 2018

The U.S. high-yield and investment-grade debt markets saw significant increases in 2017 over 2016 in dollar volume and number of issuances. The U.S. equity indices reached new highs throughout the year, with the Standard &...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Unicorn Survey - As of December 31, 2016

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This survey analyzes the financings of 31 US-based, venture-backed unicorns that raised money in 2016. It also includes comparative data from our prior surveys covering unicorn financings in 2014 and 2015. Our prior surveys...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"Regional Focus: Asia"

A number of economic and political factors, both domestic and international, influenced M&A and capital markets activity worldwide in 2016. Skadden attorneys Christopher W. Betts, Will H. Cai, Z. Julie Gao, Bradley A. Klein,...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - JOBS Act

The Small IPO

There have been any number of economic analyses demonstrating that the public markets remain inhospitable to smaller IPOs and blog posts (many, ours) lamenting the absence of smaller IPOs. Recently, in preparing for a...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - JOBS Act

The Short Field Guide to IPOs

Since the adoption of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, emerging companies have a broader array of financing alternatives, including the opportunity to rely on the accommodations available to emerging growth...more

Knobbe Martens

Acelity Reported to Plan $1 Billion IPO

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San Antonio, Texas based medical device company Acelity LP Inc. is reported to be considering an initial public offering that could raise up to $1 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. Acelity has reportedly...more

McCarter & English, LLP

KISS the SAFE Goodbye? Another Alternative for Start-up Financing

Only recently, we debated the merits of the SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity), an alternative funding mechanism for early-stage companies designed to replace the industry-standard convertible note financing....more

Fenwick & West LLP

Key Metrics for Recent Technology and Life Sciences Initial Public Offerings

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In this Newsletter: - Survey Results - Offerings Completed - Size of Offerings, Red Herring Midpoint - Size of Offerings, Final IPO Price - Aggregate Amount Raised, Red Herring Midpoint ...more

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