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US Deals 2024 outlook

Harvard Corporate Governance

Posted by Colin Wittmer and John Potter, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, on Sunday, January 21, 2024 Editor's Note: Colin Wittmer is Deals Leader and John Potter is Deals Clients & Markets Leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. This post is based on their PwC memorandum. Corporate profits and alternative structures provide reason for optimism M&A activity has been hampered as dealmakers seek clear economic signals.

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Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

Law 360 M&A

Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2023, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

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Macy's In The Crosshairs: Investors Prepare For A Showdown Over $5.8B Bid

Benzinga

An investor group, which submitted a $5.8 billion bid for Macy's Inc. (NYSE: M ) , is considering a direct appeal to shareholders if negotiations with the department store giant do not progress. As reported by The Wall Street Journal , Arkhouse Management and Brigade Capital Management proposed on December 1 to purchase all outstanding Macy's common stock they do not currently own at $21 per share.

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Law360 Names Firms Of The Year

Law 360 M&A

Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 55 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, steering some of the largest deals of 2023 and securing high-profile litigation wins, including at the U.S. Supreme Court.

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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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Sony calls off $10bn Zee merger in India after two years of talks

Financial Times M&A

Japanese group resisted chief executive Punit Goenka’s demand to stay on after merger

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Freshfields, Mayer Brown Guide $2.8B Bet On Gambling Biz

Law 360 M&A

The operator of France's national lottery said Monday that it plans to buy an online betting business, Kindred Group, for the equivalent of $2.8 billion in cash as it aims to become an international gambling provider.

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Caterer Compass Dishes Up £475M Deal To Buy Rival CH&Co.

Law 360 M&A

Compass Group PLC said on Monday that it has agreed to buy rival food service business CH&Co. for £475 million ($603 million), as the catering giant eyes further growth in the U.K. and Ireland.

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How to Curb Abuses of Insider Abstention and Rule 10b5-1 Plans

Reynolds Holding

Company insiders will typically possess material non-public information (MNPI) about their companies. To allow them to trade, the SEC in 2000 adopted Rule 10b5-1, which provides an affirmative defense to insider trading liability if the trades are made pursuant to a written plan or trading instruction entered into when the trader was not aware of MNPI.

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Macy's In The Crosshairs: Investors Prepare For A Showdown Over $5.8B Bid

Benzinga

An investor group, which submitted a $5.8 billion bid for Macy's Inc. (NYSE: M ) , is considering a direct appeal to shareholders if negotiations with the department store giant do not progress. As reported by The Wall Street Journal , Arkhouse Management and Brigade Capital Management proposed on December 1 to purchase all outstanding Macy's common stock they do not currently own at $21 per share.

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Wachtell Lipton Discusses U.S. M&A Antitrust Enforcement for  2023 and the Year Ahead

Reynolds Holding

In 2023, leadership of the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice maintained an aggressive approach to merger enforcement, investigating and challenging transactions on the basis of a broad range of theories of harm articulated in the agencies’ newly issued 2023 Merger Guidelines. Although some transaction parties abandoned their deals at the prospect of a lengthy investigation or litigation, others defended their transactions in court, where the agenci

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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