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Lowenstein Sandler LLP

What RWI Buyers Should be Prepared for as Deal Flow Resumes

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In this episode of “Don’t Take No for an Answer,” host Eric Jesse is joined by Jeff Rubocki, senior managing director of the Private Equity practice at Risk Strategies, to predict what the rest of 2024 may hold from a reps...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

2023 M&A Annual Review

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...more

Goodwin

R&W Insurance Coverage for Healthcare Services Transactions

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After being squeezed out of the R&W insurance market in 2021, deals in the healthcare services sector have regained interest from insurers and are seeing lower rates and greater competition....more

Woodruff Sawyer

Minority Investments and RWI: Choosing the Right Policy

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In 2022, we saw a higher percentage of minority investments from our strategic company and private equity clients. We expect this trend to continue in 2023. Investing less in an individual company lessens the potential...more

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Looking Ahead to 2023: Trends in Private Equity and M&A Insurance

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When we look across our client base of 375+ funds and our advisory work on 150+ middle market growth equity, private equity, and strategic M&A US-based transactions in 2022, we see a wide variety of issues that are...more

Lippes Mathias LLP

Top 5 Trends – Representation and Warranty Insurance for M&A Transactions

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Our Mergers & Acquisitions / Private Equity Team recently attended Marsh’s panel on its 2021 Global Trends Report on transactional risk. Consistent with what we have seen in the market, industry experts confirmed that an...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

2021 M&A Overview and 2022 M&A Outlook

2021 M&A Deal Activity – In the past year, deal making in the middle market set a historic pace. Private Equity firms closed an estimated 8,624 deals for a combined $1.2 trillion—around a 50% increase from previous annual...more

Troutman Pepper

What We're Seeing – 2022 Dealmaking Outlook

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The Rearview Mirror - Robust multiples and fear that the Biden administration might succeed in passing tax laws resulted in 2021 being one of the busiest years ever in the private equity space. Within the capital markets,...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

ESG on the Rise in M&A Transactions

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Dealmakers should continue to weigh the impact of ESG issues on M&A deals as ESG standards evolve. Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues have become increasingly important for corporates in recent years,...more

Goulston & Storrs PC

M&A Trend Spotting: Evolving Insurance Coverage in Private Equity Transactions

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Q. What are some of the insurance industry trends you are seeing in relation to Private Equity Transactions? I would say the market, overall, is now embracing secondary transactions in a much more significant and...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Key Takeaways from ACG’s “Current M&A Climate and 2021 Outlook”

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On June 17-18, the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) Kentucky and Tennessee chapters hosted the 12th Annual ACG Mid-South Capital Connection, bringing together over 200 private equity investors, mezzanine lenders,...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Tackling “Long COVID” in PE Acquisitions - 4 Symptoms for Dealmakers to Examine and Treat

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From potential cartel behaviour to repaying government loans, deal teams should remain alert to lingering issues rooted in a company’s response to the pandemic. The recovery of the European PE market since the early days of...more

Snell & Wilmer

Sorting Through the Kettle of Fish: Delaware Supreme Court Enforces Contractual Provisions Limiting Liability to “Deliberate...

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When determining whether to uphold an indemnification provision that carved out an exception for only deliberate fraud, the Delaware Supreme Court recently explained in Express Scripts, Inc. v. Bracket Holding Corp., ___ A.3d...more

Gray Reed

Private Equity Fund May Be Liable for Fraud, Aiding and Abetting Fraud and Conspiracy in $295 Million Sale of Portfolio Company...

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In Agspring Holdco, LLC, et al v. NGP X US Holdings, L.P., et al, the Delaware Court of Chancery (the “Court”) denied a motion to dismiss claims of fraud, aiding and abetting fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud against the...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

M&A In 2020 And Trends For 2021

2020 brought the COVID-19 pandemic and other headline-grabbing challenges, along with “the usual” quadrennial questions around the U.S. election. Early in the year, businesses and dealmakers focused on the pandemic and...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Private Equity Dealmakers Guidebook to Healthcare M&A During the Covid-19 Pandemic

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The COVID-19 pandemic has stressed the M&A market at every stage of the deal-making process – from complicating on-site visits and intensifying the diligence process to introducing valuation gaps (relative to pre-COVID-19...more

A&O Shearman

Private Equity Oil & Gas Transactions: Insights for Buyers and Sellers

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Private equity funds have supplied much of the capital injected into the oil and gas exploration and production sector over the last decade. These investors will typically seek to identify, acquire, operate, enhance, and...more

BCLP

Private Equity Firms - Government’s New Target for Healthcare Fraud Liability

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Over the past year, we have seen a new trend in healthcare fraud cases in which the government has chosen to target private equity firms (PEFs). Traditionally, the government has chosen to name the healthcare company and its...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Nota Bene Episode 27: The Gangbuster State of Private Equity and Merger and Acquisition Cycles in the U.S. with Luca Salvi

The past couple of years have proven to be banner years for private equity and merger and acquisition activity, with no signs of slow down in 2019. With cash on hand to invest and the increase in Representation and Warranty...more

Dechert LLP

Global Private Equity Newsletter - Winter 2019 Edition: U.S. Carve-Out Transactions: A Fertile Ground for Private Equity Firms

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Driven by the influence of shareholders, activists and competitive market forces, public companies are demonstrating renewed focus on their core businesses. Reductions in the U.S. corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% have...more

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Global Private Equity Newsletter - Fall 2017 Edition: Update: Purchase Price Adjustment Disputes: Drafters Continue to Beware

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In the Spring 2017 edition of Dechert’s Global Private Equity Newsletter, we reviewed the Delaware Court of Chancery’s decision in Chicago Bridge & Iron Company N.V. v. Westinghouse Electric Company LLC and WSW Acquisition...more

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Global Private Equity Newsletter - Fall 2017 Edition: The Dangers of Undefined Fraud Carve-Outs and “Inelegant Drafting”

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Crucial to any private equity seller is certainty: the certainty that a sale will be consummated at an agreed price and that any potential post-closing liability is fully understood in advance of distributing proceeds to...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Private equity in Italy: market and regulatory overview

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How do private equity funds typically obtain their funding? Private equity funds continued to have a diverse investor base in 2015. Although with a significant decrease from the 2014 figure of 68%, about 48% of the...more

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Key Differences Between European and US Private Equity Transactions

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Munich-based partner Jörg Kirchner and NY-based partner Eli Hunt discuss four key ways that private equty transactions in European and the US tend to differ. Kirchner, a Global Co-chair of Latham & Watkins’ Corporate...more

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