Harvard Corporate Governance

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Venture Capital Advisers Not Off-Limits for SEC Scrutiny. The Valuation Treadmill: How Securities Fraud Threatens the Integrity of Public Companies. Considerations for Dual-Class Companies Contemplating M&A Transactions. 2025 climate action plan – Driving portfolio companies towards net zero 2050. Posted by Hester M.

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Law 360 M&A

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Blank-check company Western Acquisition Ventures Corp., on Tuesday agreed to merge with Virginia-based cybersecurity solutions provider Cycurion Inc., steered by Clark Hill PLC, in a deal that values the combined company at just over $170 million. advised by J.P. Galda & Co.,

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Sharp Sheets

APRIL 7, 2022

According to a recent research, the global cybersecurity market is projected to reach $366 billion by 2028. Due to strong underlying market trends, the Cybersecurity industry has some of highest tech valuations out there, indeed we get a median EV/Revenue multiple of 10.5x even for publicly-listed companies.! Also, we’re….

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Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 29, 2022

Tags: Climate change , Cryptocurrency , Cybersecurity , Environmental disclosure , ESG , Financial technology , SEC enforcement , Securities enforcement , Securities regulation , SPACs.

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Audit Board

APRIL 21, 2022

Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that by 2031 ransomware will generate losses of $265 billion per year with an attack taking place every two seconds. While every form of cyberattack can prove costly and frustrating, forcing a company to pay a ransom to access its data can be particularly infuriating. Routinely back up data.

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Benzinga

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

16, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Proactive, provider of real-time news and video interviews on growth companies listed in the US and Canada, has covered the following companies: . Uber investigates reported cybersecurity incident on Slack click here. New York , Sept.

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M&A Leadership Council

JUNE 12, 2023

Insights & Advice: An Interview with Two Experts By Mark Herndon, Chairman Emeritus, M&A Leadership Council Cybersecurity and IT due diligence has become one of the most challenging, and also one of the most critical areas of due diligence in any environment. Second, impact to deal valuation or terms.

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Audit Board

MAY 24, 2022

Through both audits and best practice guidance, the Department of Labor (DOL) is encouraging businesses that sponsor retirement plans to pay attention to managing cybersecurity risk. Cybersecurity best practices related to employee benefit plans for plan sponsors, plan service providers, and plan participants.

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Benzinga

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Oxylabs , a market-leading public web data gathering solutions provider, announced the acquisition of Webshare Software Company , a distinguished Silicon Valley-based self-service proxy company whose portfolio includes over 10,000 active customers, including numerous Fortune 500 companies.

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Benzinga

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Bespin and e& enterprise also announced a binding agreement to form a joint venture offering public cloud managed and professional services to customers in the Middle East, Turkey, Africa, and Pakistan (METAP). Etisalat is one of the leading telecom companies in the emerging markets, headquartered in UAE.

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M&A Leadership Council

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Cybersecurity and IT due diligence has become one of the most challenging, and also one of the most critical areas of due diligence in any environment. Providing their deep subject expertise and practical insights are two Senior Advisors from the M&A Partners IT and Cybersecurity Practice, Anna Sherony and Mark Dickelman.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 20, 2022

Driven by the realities of a pandemic changed world, ecommerce flourished, demand for cloud-based solutions increased, and work-from-home necessitated more advanced protection from cybersecurity attacks. Cybersecurity threats drive M&A strategy. Remarkably, the sheer volume of dealmaking tells only part of the story.

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Reynolds Holding

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

After touting DOJ’s recent successes, Boynton previewed the Department’s enforcement priorities for 2024: (1) cybersecurity,(2) pandemic-related fraud, and (3) healthcare fraud. DOJ’s explicit focus on private equity firms is not a surprise to companies working in today’s healthcare and life sciences sectors.

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Audit Board

AUGUST 28, 2022

Investing in your team’s skills and professional development via privacy education and certifications can help your company create a sustainable competitive differentiator while also retaining key individuals. . This ensures your company isn’t caught off guard as new privacy rules and regulations emerge.

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Technology Compliance Marketability 52

Audit Board

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Greg Boehmer (Deloitte): I recently read a survey from Cybersecurity Ventures that said every 11 seconds, a company falls victim to a ransomware attack. Find what each person on your team actually enjoys learning about and put them in charge for keeping up with those things and bringing that back to the team.

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Cooley M&A

JULY 20, 2023

Signal Companies , the Chancery Court said that the answer depended on “whether the sale of assets is quantitatively vital to the operation of the corporation and is out of the ordinary and substantially affects the existence and purpose of the corporation.” The short answer: no. In the leading Delaware case on this issue from 1974, Gimbel v.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 18, 2022

We are the destination of choice for companies seeking to raise money in both public and private markets. Private capital markets, such as venture capital, have brought new ideas to market quickly and flexibly. We review the disclosures and financial statements of more than 8,200 reporting companies. Markets don’t stand still.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 9, 2022

Third, there should be additional laws and rules for individuals and companies that managed other people’s money. Private capital markets, such as venture capital, have brought new ideas to market faster and more flexibly than other capital markets. I believe they also contributed to America’s geopolitical standing around the globe.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Shill (University of Iowa), on Monday, October 16, 2023 Tags: Citizens United v. FEC , Dual-class stock , Rule 14a-8 , SEC 2024 U.S.

Technology 189

Technology 189

Cooley M&A

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Global regulators maintaining an aggressive posture toward tech deals, particularly for mega-cap tech companies, further moderating activity. As a result, we saw an uptick in stock and earnout consideration , private company mergers of equals and carve out transactions throughout the year. billion leading the pack.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JANUARY 26, 2024

Cohen and Fuad Rana, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, on Monday, January 22, 2024 Tags: Cybersecurity , ESG , Human capital , Public Companies , public company enforcement , SEC Indexing and the Incorporation of Exogenous Information Shocks to Stock Prices Posted by Randall Morck (Alberta School of Business) and M. Uyeda, U.S.

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Reynolds Holding

JUNE 9, 2024

This is the latest step in the Biden Administration’s years-long efforts to more aggressively police what the RFI defines as “corporate consolidation strategies that occur when a company becomes larger — and potentially dominant — by buying several smaller firms in the same or related business sectors or industries.”

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Reynolds Holding

MARCH 6, 2023

One theme of this conference is the general decline in the number of public companies over the past twenty-plus years. In 1996, the number of companies listed on a U.S. operating companies. [5] For instance, public companies may have acquired private companies before their potential IPO.

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Reynolds Holding

MARCH 30, 2022

Second, when teaching corporate law in the classroom, I long privileged the role of funds over the conventional story, which casts operating companies or investment banks as our financial industry’s central protagonist. Today, registered investment companies hold more than thirty trillion dollars in the United States. [4]

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Reynolds Holding

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A wide number of companies also announced separations, divestitures, carve-outs and spin-offs across industries over the course of the year, with over thirty $1 billion-plus divestitures and nearly forty spin-offs announced. billion acquisition by a consortium led by Permira and Hellman & Friedman and Thoma Bravo’s $10.7

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Benzinga

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

An Innovative Portal Powered by Proprietary Data: Beneficient's AltAccess digital platform is the first widely available and cybersecure-certified venue for obtaining liquidity for alternative assets from a balance sheet provider acting as a regulated fiduciary. and the MacArthur Foundation over his 30-year career.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 25, 2022

public companies faced an unpredictable risk environment. However, geopolitical instability may be the new normal, and the resulting risks may require companies to consider how these risks affect their business, and for public companies, disclosure of such information to shareholders. Over the past two years, U.S.

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Cooley M&A

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

We expect tech M&A will remain strong in 2017 as big industry verticals become more competitive and companies of all sectors increasingly focus on areas such as analytics and cybersecurity. The continued publicity and political focus on drug pricing has created uncertainty in valuing specialty pharmaceutical and biotech companies.

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