Since the early 1990s, the U.S. stock exchanges have long been home to many prominent Chinese companies as they tried to attract a wide spectrum of investors and enhance their global profile. Over the past decade, waves of...more
8/26/2024
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Buyouts ,
Capital Markets ,
China ,
Going-Private Transactions ,
Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act (HFCAA) ,
Initial Public Offering (IPO) ,
Investment ,
Investors ,
Private Equity ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Shareholders ,
Target Company
The “SPAC”-ulation is over!
On September 17, 2021, the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the Stock Exchange) issued a much anticipated consultation paper on Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs). It is...more
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (“SPACs”) played a critical role in U.S. capital market growth in 2020. There were 248 SPACs launched, raising an aggregate of $83 billion in proceeds. The beginning of 2021 witnessed an...more
3/4/2021
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Asia ,
Capital Markets ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
D&O Insurance ,
Initial Public Offering (IPO) ,
Investors ,
Mergers ,
Nasdaq ,
NYSE ,
PIPEs ,
Purchase Agreement ,
Right of Redemption ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Shareholders ,
Shell Corporations ,
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) ,
Trust Accounting
2020 is drawing to a close, but the heat of the SPAC, which will be hot starting in 2019, has not diminished at all. More and more private equity funds, financial institutions and other investors are setting up SPAC. The...more
We looked at 28 deals across Asia signed or closed pre-COVID-19 in which the buyer or a group of affiliated buyers acquired all or a significant majority of the outstanding equity of the target. We examined the common key...more
11/19/2020
/ Asia ,
Audits ,
Buyers ,
Buyouts ,
Due Diligence ,
Equity ,
Investors ,
Locked-Box Deals ,
Practical Completion ,
Purchase Agreement ,
Purchase Price Adjustment ,
Sellers
Down rounds—equity financing rounds where the company’s valuation is lower than at least one of its previous rounds of financing—have been rare in the sellers’ market of the past few years, where high valuations fueled by an...more
Investing in unicorns is a high-stakes game. These companies are often run by strong, charismatic founder teams, with no shortage of willing investors eager to accept their terms. However, it is important to know your bottom...more
Healthcare and education are generally seen as resilient sectors due to their counter-cyclical characteristics. In light of the economic and socio-political instability around the world, recession resistant investments in...more
In Part I of this article, we discussed the possibility of PE investors, their portfolio companies, or their respective counterparties invoking material adverse change (MAC) or force majeure (FM) clauses to be relieved of...more
The COVID-19 (the official name of the 2019 novel coronavirus) outbreak is likely to have an effect on the PE landscape in Asia and on anyone with interests in Asia. In this three-part article, we examine how PE buyers,...more