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Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

M&A Insights and Outlooks Regarding Financing: A Conversation with Gary Grote of Bridgepoint Investment Banking

Below is his conversation with Gary Grote, Managing Director at Bridgepoint Investment Banking, which focuses on capital raising and M&A advisory solutions. Gary focuses on deals in the healthcare, leveraged finance,...more

Lewitt Hackman

Franchisee 101: Pandemic No Excuse for Non-Payment

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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court granted summary judgment in favor of the seller of a janitorial service franchise based on claims by the buyers that the COVID-19 pandemic excused their obligation to pay the seller...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Buying Distressed Operations in the Skilled Nursing Facility Space

The “Nursing Home Covid-19 Data Dashboard” maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that COVID-19 had an unusually intense impact on the long term care community. Cases among nursing home...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Regulatory Considerations in Acquisitions of Troubled Long Term Care Facilities

Post-acute and long term care providers have endured a state of distress since March 2020, not only from the challenges created by the COVID-19 virus, but also from ever-increasing regulatory compliance burdens, changes in...more

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Mixed Signals: US M&A FY 2022

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Although the record-breaking deal activity of 2021 spilled over into 2022, headwinds in the first quarter developed into a significant slowdown during the rest of 2022, with an expectation of continued slowness as we enter...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Thinking About Selling Your Ag Business? Time to Get Your I-9s in Order

The past two years have seen significant growth in the number of mergers and acquisitions nationwide with many agriculture and farming business owners choosing to liquefy their assets and move on. At the same time, employers...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

What Would an Economic Downturn Mean for Technology M&A Activity, and How Should Buyers and Sellers Get Ready for the Coming...

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Starting with a sell-off in public technology stocks (trading “FAMMGA” is no longer a winning strategy), the outbreak of war in Europe, upcoming midterm elections in the US, out of control inflation, rapidly rising interest...more

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NPL market dynamics are changing, possibly for good

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What does the future hold for NPLs? There's still plenty of business to be done, but buyers and sellers alike will need to change tack to get the most from the available opportunities....more

A&O Shearman

Delaware Court Of Chancery Grants Motion To Stay Pending Appeal Of Specific Performance Judgment Requiring Completion Of...

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On March 31, 2022, Vice Chancellor Joseph R. Slights III of the Delaware Court of Chancery ­granted the motion of CorePower Yoga, LLC and CorePower Yoga Franchising, LLC (together, “defendant”) to stay the Court’s judgment in...more

Morris James LLP

Delaware Supreme Court Affirms that Seller’s Change of Business Operations in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic Excused Buyer’s...

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AB Stable VIII LLC v. Maps Hotels and Resorts One LLC, No. 71-2021 (Del. Dec. 8, 2021) - This Supreme Court decision affirms the Court of Chancery’s decision below (reported here) that a buyer’s obligation to purchase a...more

A&O Shearman

Delaware Court Of Chancery Holds COVID-19 Pandemic Did Not Excuse Purchaser’s Obligation To Complete Acquisition Of Its...

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On March 1, 2022, Vice Chancellor Joseph R. Slights of the Delaware Court of Chancery ruled in favor of plaintiff Level 4 Yoga, LLC in a breach of contract action against CorePower Yoga, LLC and CorePower Yoga Franchising,...more

McDermott Will & Emery

2022 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference: Life Sciences Investment Forum

Despite offering one of the lowest total deal values on record, 2021 was an active M&A year. Due to the strong capital markets, a seller’s market continued, creating additional urgency for biopharma companies to accelerate...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Delaware Supreme Court Finds COVID-19 Business Adjustments Entitle Company’s Buyer to Terminate Contract

One consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic is that many businesses were forced to adjust their operations in an effort to slow the spread of the virus. In many ways such adjustments are a routine business response to external...more

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Delaware Supreme Court Affirms Excused Performance For Breach Of “Ordinary Course” Covenant During Pandemic

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On December 8, 2021, the Supreme Court of Delaware sitting en banc affirmed a Court of Chancery ruling that excused the buyer of a group of high-end hotel properties (the “Buyer”) from closing on the acquisition from AB...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Hotel Group Seller’s COVID-19 Response Breaches ‘Ordinary Course’ Covenant, Excusing Buyer’s Performance

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Delaware’s Supreme Court held this month that a buyer’s obligation to close a hotel group purchase was excused where the seller adopted what it described as “proportional changes in response to extraordinary...more

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UK M&A reaches new highs despite headwinds

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Favorable valuations are fueling opportunistic purchases by overseas bidders- Spiraling COVID rates, supply chain issues and food and fuel shortages have all hit the headlines in the months since the end of the Brexit...more

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HPE New York 2021: Super Charging Sellers’ Strategies

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Fueled by historically low interest rates, all time high levels of committed—but unallocated—capital and impending tax reform, private equity deal volume and values have reached new, record-breaking heights, and they continue...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

M&A Trends in the Opportunity Economy

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The M&A market is at a record pace in 2021. Womble Bond Dickinson attorneys D. Scott Anderson and Dean Rutley discussed the ongoing M&A boom and the factors they see impacting corporate transactions in the near future....more

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Top Ten Investment Trends and Opportunities in the Healthcare Market

As the world enters a phase of the global pandemic marked by an increasing rate of vaccinations, investors are looking for global (particularly, European) healthcare market opportunities. With the emergence of certain...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

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Notable decisions from Delaware courts

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Williams: Court of Chancery Finds Poison Pill Unenforceable - In February, the Delaware Court of Chancery held that a shareholder rights plan (a "poison pill") adopted by The Williams Companies, Inc. at the onset of the...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Snow Phipps: No MAE or Ordinary Course Breach Related to COVID-19

Delaware Chancery Court awards specific performance after finding that buyer failed to demonstrate a material adverse effect or ordinary course breach by target and that buyer failed to use reasonable best efforts to obtain...more

Cooley LLP

Blog - Have Your Cake, and Closing Too: Invoking Prevention Doctrine, Delaware Chancery Court Grants Seller’s Request for Specific...

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Chancellor McCormick’s opinion in Snow Phipps Group, LLC, et al. v. KCake Acquisition, Inc., et al. (Del. Ch. April 30, 2021) is 125 pages long, but she helpfully digests the holding in a single sentence on page 3: “Chalking...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Best Practices for In-Store and Curbside Pickup

In today’s COVID-era, more retailers are offering innovative solutions for customers to shop with minimal brick-and-mortar browsing time. Options to place an order online and pick up your items in the store are extremely...more

K&L Gates LLP

Health Care Triage: Health Care Transactions Trends in 2021 and Beyond

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In this week’s episode, Josh Skora interviews Rick Giovannelli and Ken Marlow about current trends in health care transactions, with a particular focus on how COVID-19 has affected pricing considerations and the appetite for...more

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