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Learning Old Lessons From Recent Life Sciences Earnout Disputes: Above All Else, Words Matter

Cooley M&A

More than 80 Auris personnel were diverted from progressing development of iPlatform required to satisfy the earnout milestones to instead do work to stabilize iPlatform’s alpha robot in order to face the post-beta Verb robot in Project Manhattan.

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ESG A Valuation Framework

Value Scope

Generally speaking, pre-COVID, the goal of ESG risk management was to minimize negative events that might impact value. As companies continue to legitimately integrate ESG into business strategy, the ability to achieve “alpha,” which is an excess return or performance above a codified index or peer group, might become more difficult to do.