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Carlyle Secured Lending, Inc. Announces Merger with Carlyle Secured Lending III

Benzinga

1 The increased market capitalization of CGBD following the merger is anticipated to provide greater trading liquidity, the potential for more institutional ownership, and a broader investor base than CGBD as a stand-alone company. billion at merger close.

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Cooley’s 2022 Life Sciences M&A Year in Review

Cooley M&A

Lastly, many public life sciences companies that had their market capitalizations fall in 2022 also found it more difficult or more expensive to secure debt financing as compared to a year or two ago, and many private life sciences companies saw that venture capital debt carried with it more dilutive terms in 2022.

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The Corporate Tax Burden: Facts and Fiction

Musings on Markets

For instance, the 2017 US tax reform act, in addition to lowering the corporate tax rate, also changed the way that foreign income to US companies was taxed and put limits on the tax deductibility of debt. There is little evidence in this table to support the notion that larger companies are more likely to evade taxes than smaller ones.