Equilest

JANUARY 25, 2025

How to Value a Convertible Loan: A Comprehensive Guide Convertible loans are a critical instrument in the financial world, often bridging the gap between equity and debt financing. A convertible loan is a debt instrument that includes an option to convert the loan into equity under specified conditions.

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Scott Mashuda

OCTOBER 10, 2024

This increased liquidity, coupled with easing interest rates, makes financing more accessible and affordable for lower middle market companies, which often rely heavily on debt financing. But remember, selling your business is a process, not an event and finding proprietary deal flow takes consistent effort.

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Finance Marketability Private Equity Firm Debt Financing 83

Scott Mashuda

JUNE 6, 2024

The Action Plan is crafted to bridge the gaps identified during the Triggering Event analysis. These capital stack considerations can be broken down into actionable steps within the 90-day sprint cycles, for example: Sprint 1: Assess current capital structure, debt positions, and equity holdings.

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Benzinga

AUGUST 1, 2024

Highlights: Outbrain will acquire Teads in an approximately $1 billion transaction, consisting of $725 million upfront cash and $25 million deferred cash, 35 million shares of common stock of Outbrain, and $105 million of convertible preferred equity. subject to customary funding conditions. The initial conversion price is $10.00

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Cooley M&A

MAY 11, 2020

Amherst agreed to pay Front Yard $100 million in the form of a cash payment, equity investment and new loan facility. Pay attention to intervening event provisions too. 1] In the current environment, sellers and buyers whose shareholders must approve a deal must consider if COVID-19 constitutes an intervening event.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

This post takes a deeper dive into what we see as the pivotal events and deals that propelled the life sciences industry in 2022, and our view on what to expect looking ahead to 2023. Activists may be able to take advantage of high trading volumes to accumulate positions without early detection.

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Scott Mashuda

MARCH 31, 2025

With continued interest rate cuts and significant private equity capital seeking deals in 2025, current market dynamics present compelling sell-side opportunities for well-prepared sellers to achieve premium valuations. I Know How To Run My Company, I Can Sell It Myself.

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Lighter Capital

JANUARY 29, 2025

Debt financing isn't an option yet, because you dont have revenue. When you bootstrap your way to success, you not only preserve valuable equity and maintain full control of your business, you also become skilled at growing efficientlyputting every dollar to work where its most needed. Traditional banks wont talk to you.

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Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Biden-appointed antitrust officials have asserted, unfairly in our view, that private equity firms deserve heightened scrutiny when they engage in corporate transactions. Agency criticism of private equity has just failed its first courtroom test. This is welcome news for private equity firms competing to be divestiture buyers.

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Lighter Capital

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Bootstrapping is a great way to preserve all or most of your equity while you build your business and find your product-market fit. Some startups might go on to raise equity from VCs, while others bootstrap all the way to an exit. So, should you avoid debt when bootstrapping a startup? One big advantage of using debt to grow.

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Benzinga

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Under the revised terms, there is no deferred cash payment or convertible preferred equity component. The revised terms have meaningfully reduced the level of required debt financing and simplified the transaction structure. subject to customary funding conditions. About The Combined Company Outbrain Inc.

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Global Finance

MARCH 3, 2025

Also in Australia, SocGen acted as mandated lead arranger for $400 million Australian dollars (about $255 million) in debt financing for construction of the third phase of the Melbourne Renewable Energy Hub. This issuance builds on a $600 million five-year, gender-equity-themed social bond issued by IBK in 2023.

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Finance Banking Debt Financing Marketability 52

Cooley M&A

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Over the course of the year, many of the headwinds that have slowed tech M&A activity since 2022 began to abate as interest rates moderated, the acquisition financing market returned and equity markets reached new highs. billion acquisition of Altair, IBMs pending $6.4 billion take-private acquisition of Squarespace.

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