December, 2018

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Exit Planning: When to Engage a Business Valuation

Quantive

If you are considering selling your company step 1 should be understanding what the company is worth. Just like selling a car: before you go to the dealership you consult Kelley Blue Book, right? The same logic holds for a business: you can’t price it well if you don’t know the value.

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Merger Breakup Case: Valuation Questions

Appraisal Rights

Appraisal cases increasingly focus on how markets react to merger news and what one learns from that. Recent cases that have looked to “unaffected” merger price – that is, the price of a share of the target company before the merger announcement – in part because of the fundamental truth that mergers are market moving events. So are the breakup of mergers.

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Thoughts on Exiting the Business (aka Work the Plan)

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Here’s a quick one: A common objection we see from owners exploring an exit is “well if my company is only worth X annual earnings, I could just keep running it.” And you know what? Yes, you could. In fact, you could keep running it until X approaches infinity. But here are the problems with […].

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Understanding Terms: Main Street vs. Middle Market

Quantive

We often throw around the terms “middle market,” “lower middle market,” and “Main Street.” These are pretty common terms in the finance, banking, and M&A world, but probably less so to most business owners and entrepreneurs. For the sake of clarity we thought we’d dive in. Defining Main Street vs. Middle Market It seems […].

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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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Does Hong Kong Offer Appraisal Rights?

Appraisal Rights

Not really, and definitely not in the way Delaware does, at least according to this 2013 analysis. Hong Kong lacks a general appraisal remedy; instead, at least for public companies, the takeover must be evaluated by an independent advisor and those finding made available to shareholders. Considering Canadian and Cayman Islands appraisal rules, we see great diversity across appraisal regimes worldwide, even among jurisdictions that have a common legal-ancestor (English common law).

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Cayman Islands Review Covers Appraisal

Appraisal Rights

In the 12 th Edition of the Mergers and Acquisitions Review, the entry regarding the Caymans Islands includes discussion of the Cayman appraisal regime and confirms what other commentators have observed: Cayman Islands appraisal is in flux as the result of appeals of some of the first major appraisal decisions in that jurisdiction. Like in Delaware, Cayman courts have to contend with various precedents, some of which are later overturned or modified.