Lots of Developments in Small Business Finance - The Consumer Finance Podcast
CFPB-New York AG Lawsuit Analyses Against Subprime Auto Financer - The Consumer Finance Podcast
Patient Steering and Charting
Leaders Moving Business Forward with Shirmila Ramasamy of the World Bank
Tips for Dentists Starting or Acquiring a Dental Practice
Roadmap to Joint Venture Agreements: Legal and Accounting Considerations
Exit Strategies for GOVCONs with Set Aside Contracts: 2021 Insights and Lessons Learned from Business Owners and Advisors
M&A Strategies for the Acquisition of Insolvent/Financially Distressed Targets
Meritas Capability Webinar - Transactions in a COVID-19 Environment
Nota Bene Episode 72: Space Law: License, Launch, Finance, Insurance, and Responsible Space Stewardship with Brian Weimer
[WEBINAR] Building a Solar Energy Project in 2018
Cameras Roll on Spicer and Miller Discussing 2016 Entertainment Trends and Looking Forward to 2017
Financing Challenges for Small Cap Companies
How Leading Philippine Companies are Using Bonds to Their Advantage
Homebuilder Series Webinar: Joint Ventures Solutions, Steve Lear
Structuring an MLP Finance
Financing Trends in Life Sciences – Interview with Bill Whelan, Member, Mintz Levin
The Transformation of the VC Business Model – Interview with Bill Whelan, Member, Mintz Levin
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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