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Recent Updates in the UK Venture Fundraising Landscape - August 2024

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As venture fund formation lawyers, we take a keen interest in helping our clients raise capital for their funds. If you are currently fundraising or expect to do so soon, we have pulled together a summary of some key recent...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Private Wealth Investors Deliver a Fundraising Boost

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In a challenging fundraising environment, private wealth investors are filling the gap, aided by investment platforms, intermediaries, and evolving legal structures. In recent years, inflationary pressures, interest rate...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

SAFE Financing – a Deep Dive on the Evolution of the SAFE

As we’ve noted in a previous article, the Y Combinator-hosted SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) has become the investment contract of choice for startup companies that have already attracted investors. However, the...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

US Capital Markets Midyear Report: The Revival of IPOs and a Possible Turning Point

As a testament to the U.S. capital markets’ resilience and ability to adapt, IPOs, debt markets and mergers and acquisitions (and related financings) have shown substantial increases over 2023. Activity to date in 2024...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

SAFE Financing – Valuation Cap vs. Discount Variants

So you decided to use a SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) to raise money for your new startup – congratulations! And you’re off to a good start because you read our previous article, which summarized how to use the...more

Seward & Kissel LLP

2023 Seed Transactions Deal Points Study

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Seed investments in hedge funds, private equity funds, private credit funds, and other investment vehicles continued to generate significant deal volume in 2023, according to the tenth annual Seward & Kissel Seed Transactions...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

The PIPEline’s Heating Up: Recent Trends in PIPE Transactions

The PIPE market has proven to be resilient during times of stress.  In 2023, issuers raised over $33.8 billion in 809 PIPE transactions according to PrivateRaise.  This is considerably less than in 2021 during which issuers...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Q&A: Trends in European Venture Capital Fundraising

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Over the last decade, there has been a remarkable growth in European venture capital fundraising, underlining investors’ increasing appetite for innovation and entrepreneurial investments in Europe. While we are witnessing a...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Food Venture Financing News - Weekly Issue No. 188

Food Venture Financing Trends - - Reshape, a Danish biotech startup that develops lab automation robots, announced that it has raised $20 million in Series A funding. - Weenat, a French agtech company that aims to use...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Food Venture Financing News - Weekly Issue No. 184

Food Venture Financing Trends - Amara, an organic baby food brand, announced that it raised $20 million in its Series B financing. Liquid Death, a fast-growing non-alcoholic brand, announced that it has raised $67...more

Dechert LLP

Global Private Equity Practice 2023 Highlights

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In a year marked by rising interest rates and intensified regulatory scrutiny, Dechert stood shoulder-to-shoulder with our private equity and private capital clients, crafting innovative strategies for capital raising and...more

A&O Shearman

Private Markets Global Trends 2024

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Private markets have shown remarkable resilience and innovation in the face of unprecedented challenges and opportunities in the past few years. From the pandemic to the digital transformation, from the climate crisis to the...more

BakerHostetler

Common Bad Decisions Startups Make During the Romance Phase

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Entrepreneurs with sound business ideas commonly make decisions that hinder early growth and capitalization. During the “Romance Phase,” the idea for a new product or service is fully developed, the initial team of talent is...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Trends in Oil & Gas: 2023 and the Year Ahead

The past 12 months have been some of the trickiest to navigate for oil & gas companies in recent memory. Despite high energy prices and record cashflows, there is still uncertainty about what future paths to growth might look...more

Proskauer - Private Market Talks Podcast

[Podcast] Private Market Talks: Private Equity Fundraising with Asante Capital’s Fraser van Rensburg

Private equity was on fire globally, at least until 2023. Fundraising targets got ever larger and deal activity was on a roll. So, what changed and what can both investors and managers expect for 2024? In this episode of...more

Goodwin

Trends in Growth Equity Financing in an Uncertain Economy

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The current economic climate has been challenging for privately held companies seeking to raise growth capital. Several factors have contributed to the recent contraction in fundraising, including high interest rates, reduced...more

White & Case LLP

Sector trends - September 2023: Payments

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Deliver a burst of bright sunlight amidst storm clouds across the European financial services M&A landscape. Service providers merge, acquire, partner and de-SPAC their way to scale, scope and new technology....more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Project W: Q&A with Jennifer Steiner

Jennifer Steiner has spent her entire career in the healthcare services sector: at Fortune 100 companies, private equity backed companies, and now at her own private equity backed startup. Jennifer shares her experience...more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

Corporate Finance and M&A in Québec: Finding the Bright Spots in a Challenging Year

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In 2023, private equity, mergers and acquisitions and venture capital financings have experienced a slowdown across Canada, on the heels of a historically strong year in 2022. In this post we look specifically at the province...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

OLNS#11 – Bridging the Pond – U.S. Venture Capital Deals from a German Market Perspective

In substantially all the major world markets, we have dedicated technology lawyers who support young German technology companies on their growth trajectory through all stages. As one of the top tech law firms in the world, we...more

Benesch

Benesch DSO Intelligence Quarterly Report: Q2 2023

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Younger Dentists are Affiliating with DSOs at Higher Rates in the U.S. Financial constraints, stronger need for work/life balance is driving this trend - The ADA Health Policy Institute (HPI) released data in May that...more

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Dialysis & Nephrology Digest - June 2023

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Benesch: MN ban on non-compete agreements includes carveout for business sale, dissolution - Benesch Law notes the bill only awaits the signature of MN’s Governor and could become law as early as July 1. It would prevent...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Food Venture Financing News - Weekly Issue No. 147

Food Venture Financing Trends - DouxMatok, a foodtech company that develops sugar reduction products, announced that it raised $30 million in its Series C round....more

Lippes Mathias LLP

Venture Capital 101

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A company starts off with an idea and needs capital to secure a patent and build a prototype .At this point, the founding team’s personal resources and network are the primary source of capital. ...more

SECIL Law

Buyer Beware: The Tech Startup Employee Stock Scheme

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Startup company employees, many in the tech world, need to be aware of a model that financiers and insiders of (typically Delaware) business corporations use to misappropriate contributions employees have made, in the form of...more

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