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Skadden Discusses De-SPACed Companies Seeking Chapter 11 Protection

Reynolds Holding

The SPAC Boom and Subsequent Contraction Most of today’s de-SPACed companies are the result of the boom in SPAC fundraisings in 2020 and 2021, when there were 861 SPAC initial public offerings (IPOs), accounting for more than half of all IPOs in both years. 3 The SPAC IPO market began to wane in late 2021 and contracted further in 2022.

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The Art of the Dealership: A Legal Road Map for Buying and Selling Automotive Dealerships

Shephard Mullin M&A

By early 2021, the industry had effectively made a full recovery in spite of supply chain and inventory challenges and M&A activity in this space rebounded accordingly, with a record 383 transactions completed in 2021, and an estimated 374 transactions completed in 2022. Despite larger U.S.

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Cooley Discusses “Internal Control over Sustainability Reporting”

Reynolds Holding

The second difference is the “inherently more qualitative” nature of sustainability information than traditional financial reporting; the “goal is to produce information so that users may assess short-, medium-, and long-term future performance and expectations that relate to an ultimate enterprise value (or going concern value).”