Tue.Mar 04, 2025

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Navigating The New Trade Order

Global Finance

As global trade fractures in 2025, companies face rising tariffs, supply chain turmoil, and shifting economic dynamics. Geopolitical pressures are reshaping global economic and financial activity leading to what is commonly called a fractured global economy. Among other things, a fractured economy is characterized by increased trade barriers and tariffs, geopolitical tensions and shifts to specific trading blocks (like US vs China), changing investment patterns, and supply chain disruptions.

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Hiding in plain sight: The trillion-dollar services opportunity

Mckinsey and Company

While low- and middle-income countries often focus on manufacturing to propel economic growth, services can and should play a greater role.

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Banks Boost Transition To Energy Finance: Q&A With Standard Bank CIB’s Sasha Cook

Global Finance

Sasha Cook, head of Sustainable Finance at Standard Bank CIB, explains how domestic banks are helping to close the energy-investment gap and ensure sustainable development across Africa. Global Finance: What are Standard Banks specific targets for reducing its financed emissions, and how is it achieving them? Sasha Cook: We have committed to achieving net zero for our own operations by 2040 and are three years ahead of schedule; for our portfolio of financed emissions, by 2050.

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The McKinsey Crossword: Apple Season | No. 222

Mckinsey and Company

Sharpen your problem-solving skills the McKinsey way, with our weekly crossword. Each puzzle is created with the McKinsey audience in mind, and includes a subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) business theme for you to find. Answers that are directionally correct may not cut it if youre looking for a quick win.

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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How Law Firms Can Counteract The Loneliness Epidemic

Law 360 M&A

The legal industry is facing an urgent epidemic of loneliness, affecting lawyer well-being, productivity, retention and profitability, and law firm leaders should take concrete steps to encourage the development of genuine workplace connections, says Michelle Gomez at Littler and Gwen Mellor Romans at Herald Talent.

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Engineering and construction: Strategic M&A as a catalyst for growth

Mckinsey and Company

E&C firms that embrace a strategic and methodological approach to M&A can be better positioned to capture the full value from upcoming transactions over the next decade.

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GSK’s Kim Branson on driving innovation with AI and machine learning

Mckinsey and Company

Pharmaceutical giant GSKs global head of AI and machine learning describes how these emerging technologies are reshaping drug development and organizational processes.

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Royal Mail's £3.6B Sale Awaiting Romanian Clearance

Law 360 M&A

The proposed 3.6 billion ($4.6 billion) acquisition of the parent company of Royal Mail by a conglomerate controlled by a Czech billionaire is awaiting clearance in Romania, the companies said Wednesday.

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Single Audit Threshold is Changing | Meaden & Moore

Meade & Moore

On April 22, 2024, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) made some important changes to its Uniform Guidance on Single Audits. If your nonprofit receives federal grants, keep reading to see if these changes will affect you.

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Avalara Investor Asks 9th Circ. To Revive $8B PE Buyout Suit

Law 360 M&A

An Avalara shareholder urged the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday to revive a proposed securities class action alleging the tax software company duped investors into approving a "deficient" $8.4 billion private equity buyout, arguing the trial court erred in finding Avalara's statements tied to "numerically specific metrics" weren't false or misleading.

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Statement of Cash Flows vs. Cash Flow Statement

Speaker: Wayne Spivak - President and Chief Financial Officer of SBA * Consulting LTD, Industry Writer, and Public Speaker

The old adages that "cash is king" and "you can’t spend profits" still hold true today. But however well-known these sayings might be, it requires a change in mindset to properly implement a cash flow management system that predicts your business's runaway as accurately as possible. Key to this new mindset is understanding the difference between the Statement of Cash Flows, a historical look at the source and uses of cash, and the Cash Flow Statement, which uses transaction history and forward-l

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M&A Process: Pre-Announcement Leaks in Two-Thirds of the Largest Deals

John Jenkins

H/Advisors Abernathy recently released its 5th annual report of pre-announcement leaks in M&A transactions. The report reviewed 509 transactions announced from January 2024 through December 2024 with $1 billion or larger in enterprise value.

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Agencies Have 'Ultimate' Authority Over Firings, OPM Says

Law 360 M&A

The Office of Personnel Management on Tuesday issued a revised version of its January memo directing agency heads to identify all probationary employees, adding a disclaimer that OPM "is not directing agencies to take any specific performance-based actions" and that agencies "have ultimate decision-making authority.

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CFO Corner: Anne-Laure Autret-Cornet, OSE Immunotherapeutics

Global Finance

Since 2016, Anne-Laure Autret-Cornet has been the CFO of OSE Immunotherapeutics, a biotech dedicated to immuno-oncology and immuno-inflammation. The Nantes, France-based company went public on the Euronext Paris stock exchange in late March 2015. Global Finance: What has been your biggest challenge as CFO? Anne-Laure Autret-Cornet: In the biotech sector, we are always fundraising.

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Musk Fails to Block OpenAI From Turning Into For-Profit Entity

Law 360 M&A

A California federal judge on Tuesday denied Elon Musk's bid to preliminarily bar OpenAI Inc. from converting into a for-profit entity, saying that a threshold question of whether Musk's over $44 million in donations created a charitable trust was a "toss-up.

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Mastering Intent Data: Understanding its Importance & Best Practices

Speaker: Joe Apfelbaum, CEO of Ajax Union

In this webinar, Joe Apfelbaum, CEO of Ajax Union and business strategist, will take you through the ABCs of intent data. You'll learn how to effectively use it to drive business results, with practical tips on how to leverage both company and contact intent data to maximize your marketing efforts. Whether you're a seasoned marketer or just getting started, this webinar is a must-attend for anyone looking to stay ahead in the ever-evolving world of digital marketing.

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Delaware: The Empire Strikes Back

Harvard Corporate Governance

Posted by Lucian Bebchuk (Harvard Law School), on Tuesday, March 4, 2025 Editor's Note: Lucian Bebchuk is the James Barr Ames Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance, and Director of the Program on Corporate Governance, at Harvard Law School. This post is part of the Delaware law series ; links to other posts in the series are available here. A proposal to make broad and major changes to Delawares corporate law code, the DGCL, was made public last week.

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NC Judge Wants 1st Look At Info In Hospital Sale Suit

Law 360 M&A

A North Carolina judge has ruled that she needs to be the first one to review potentially privileged information sought in Attorney General Jeff Jackson's suit alleging that a hospital sale agreement was breached, reasoning that it's too early to determine if they're public record or shielded attorney-client communications.

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Decision Ready Data: One-Time Awards & CEO Succession

Harvard Corporate Governance

Posted by Krishna Shah and James McQuerrey, Glass, Lewis & Co, on Tuesday, March 4, 2025 Editor's Note: Krishna Shah is a Senior Director of North American Compensation Research, and James McQuerrey is a Senior Analyst, at Glass, Lewis & Co. This post is based on a Glass Lewis memorandum by Ms. Shah, Mr. McQuerrey, and Hannah Fasbender. Despite a year-to-year decline in the number and value of one-time awards granted to executives, sign-on, make-whole and retention awards continue to rep

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Linklaters Adds Second Ex-Mayer Brown M&A Partner In NY

Law 360 M&A

Linklaters LLP has announced the hiring of a former Mayer Brown partner for its mergers and acquisitions practice in New York, a little over three months after bringing aboard the former co-leader of Mayer Brown's infrastructure M&A practice.

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SEC Leadership Change Results in Key Policy Developments

Harvard Corporate Governance

Posted by Brian V. Breheny, Raquel Fox, and Marc S. Gerber, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, on Tuesday, March 4, 2025 Editor's Note: Brian V. Breheny , Raquel Fox , and Marc S. Gerber are Partners at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. This post is based on their Skadden memorandum. The designation of SEC Commissioner Mark Uyeda as the Acting Chair of the U.S.

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Paul Hastings Real Assets Pro Jumps To Proskauer In LA

Law 360 M&A

Proskauer Rose LLP is expanding its California team, bringing in a Paul Hastings LLP real assets ace as a partner in its Los Angeles office.

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Comment on HUD Investigation Leads to Illegal Break-In & Evidence Tampering by ohiobeasttwoonesix

Appraisers Blog

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3 Firms Build Instinct Brothers' $242M SPAC Merger

Law 360 M&A

Japanese regenerative medicine and stem cell technology company Instinct Brothers Co. Ltd. on Tuesday unveiled plans to go public through a merger with special purpose acquisition company Relativity Acquisition Corp. in a $242 million deal built by three law firms.

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8 due diligence tips for business buyers [cheat sheet]

JPAbusiness

When buying a business, the due diligence process involves checking and verifying information relating to the basic operations and performance of the business you're interested in. Due diligence is about identifying risks, issues and any material differences between what has been represented in information provided previously on the business, and what you and your advisor identify in the due diligence process.

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Day Pitney Hires Founder Of Legal Intelligence Company

Law 360 M&A

Day Pitney LLP has hired the founder of a legal intelligence company and former co-head of the New York corporate and transactions group at McDermott Will & Emery LLP, the firm announced this week.

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Gibson Dunn Offers Securities Litigation Update for 2024

Reynolds Holding

In this update: We report on orders from the Supreme Court that dismissed two securities-related cases from the Courts merits docket, leaving unresolved questions about pleading standards and the nature of misstatements under the PSLRA. We also examine one potential circuit conflict involving federal courts jurisdiction to hear securities-related cases under the Class Action Fairness Act.

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Honeywell Paying $2.2B For Sundyne Amid $25B Deployment

Law 360 M&A

Honeywell said Tuesday it has agreed to acquire pump and gas compressor maker Sundyne from private equity firm Warburg Pincus for$2.16 billion, part of a restructuring plan that calls for the industrial conglomerate to deploy at least $25 billion by the end of 2025.

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Top 5 Mistakes Business Sellers Need To Avoid

A Neumann & Associates

As successful business owners, many sellers have built a profitable business by overcoming the many obstacles, competitive threats, unforeseen pandemics and changes in their industry and market. Eventually, there comes a time when the business owner wants to sell their business and will need assistance. The challenges of selling a business can be a complex process, but with proper preparation, and avoidance of common mistakes, one can dramatically increase the chances of a successful outcome.

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DOJ's HPE-Juniper Challenge Is Not Rooted In Law

Law 360 M&A

Legal precedents that date back as far as 1990 demonstrate that the U.S. Department of Justice's recent challenge to the proposed $14 billion merger between Hewlett Packard and Juniper is misplaced because no evidence of collusion or coordinated conduct exists, says Thomas Stratmann at George Mason University.

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Valuation Multiples for a Golf Course

Peak Business Valuation

Golf courses offer recreational and competitive opportunities for their local communities. With the right approach, operating a golf course business can yield favorable returns. Whether you plan to buy , grow , or sell a golf course business , receiving a business valuation can help you succeed. As part of a business valuation, a valuation expert uses valuation multiples for a golf course to determine its fair market value.

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Verdane Ends £315M Offer Talks For Team Internet

Law 360 M&A

Swedish investment manager Verdane on Tuesday said it has backed out of talks to make a 315 million ($401 million) offer for British software company Team Internet Group PLC.

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908 Devices Strategic Shift: Desktop Sale To Repligen Optimizes Future Growth

Benzinga

On Tuesday, Repligen Corporation (NASDAQ: RGEN ) purchased 908 Devices Inc.’s (NASDAQ: MASS ) desktop portfolio of four devices for bioprocessing process analytical technology (PAT) applications. The purchase consideration is a payment of $70 million in cash. 908 Devices remains focused on the growth of its newly expanded handheld device portfolio for health and safety applications.

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Former Fried Frank Antitrust Partner Joins Davis Polk

Law 360 M&A

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP announced it has hired a former Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLPantitrust attorney as a partner in its antitrust and competition practice in New York.

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Honeywell Acquires Sundyne For $2.16 Billion, Expands Energy And Industrial Equipment Portfolio

Benzinga

Honeywell International Inc. (NASDAQ: HON ) has announced a $2.16 billion all-cash acquisition of Sundyne from Warburg Pincus (OTC: WPCBF ). The deal is valued at 14.5 times Sundyne’s 2024 EBITDA on a tax-adjusted basis. The acquisition expands Honeywell’s industrial equipment portfolio, enhancing its capabilities in high-performance pumps and gas compressors.

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BlackRock Will Buy Panama Canal Ports from CK Hutchison

NYT M&A

An investor group led by BlackRock will acquire two ports near the Panama Canal that are owned by CK Hutchison and have been the subject of a dispute between President Trump and Panama.