Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 14, 2024

Posted by Matt DiGuiseppe, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, on Sunday, July 14, 2024 Editor's Note: Matt DiGuiseppe is Managing Director at the Governance Insights Center, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. This post is based on his PwC memorandum. Part I: Introduction Shareholder activism today The nature of shareholder activism, the key players, their preferred methods and their typical targets all tend to shift along with investment and business trends.

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Marketability 259

NYT M&A

JULY 14, 2024

Microsoft’s all-in moment on artificial intelligence has been defined by billions in spending and a C.E.O. counting on technology with huge potential and huge risks.

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Technology Mergers & Acquisitions 134

Law 360 M&A

JULY 14, 2024

Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2024, our list of 158 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.

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Mckinsey and Company

JULY 14, 2024

A new perspective shows how the UK corporate landscape is evolving and how top performers within it create the conditions necessary to achieve their ambitions.

Corporate Finance 101

Corporate Finance Finance 101

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.

Marketability

Benzinga

JULY 14, 2024

Google parent Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG ) (NASDAQ: GOOGL ) is reportedly in talks to acquire cybersecurity startup Wiz Inc. in a deal valued at $23 billion. What Happened: Alphabet’s acquisition of Wiz, a New York-based firm specializing in cloud storage security, is not yet confirmed and could still fall through. If completed, the acquisition would be the largest ever for Alphabet, reported Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter.

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Financial Times M&A

JULY 14, 2024

Acquisition of cloud specialist would be largest in Alphabet’s history

Start-ups 109

Start-ups 109

Reynolds Holding

JULY 14, 2024

When a portion of the purchase price in an acquisition is contingent on the earnings or other performance metric(s) of the acquired business post-closing (i.e., an “earn-out” provision), buyers and sellers routinely discuss their aspirations and expectations regarding the go-forward operation and performance of the acquired business during the transaction negotiations. [1] These discussions are a necessary part of arriving at the agreed economics for the earn-out and also help the seller get com

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Benzinga

JULY 14, 2024

LYON, France and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 15, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Amolyt Pharma, a global, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company specializing in developing therapeutic peptides for rare endocrine and related diseases, today announced that its previously announced acquisition by the global pharmaceutical company, AstraZeneca, has closed. The acquisition bolsters the Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease late-stage pipeline and expands on its bone metabolism franchise with the notable addition o

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Reynolds Holding

JULY 14, 2024

Carried interest is a special, or disproportionate-to-ownership, allocation of profits to the managers of a private equity (PE) or hedge fund partnership. While fund managers typically own about 2 percent of a fund, carried interest may allocate about 20 percent of the fund’s profits (above a threshold) to the managers. Some commentators deride carried interest as a “loophole” that allows high-income fund managers to reduce their taxes by obtaining preferential tax rates.

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NYT M&A

JULY 14, 2024

The search giant’s negotiations to buy Wiz, a cybersecurity start-up, for $23 billion, come as the Biden administration has taken a hard line against consolidation in tech and other industries.

Start-ups 121

Start-ups Mergers & Acquisitions 121

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

Corporate Finance

NYT M&A

JULY 14, 2024

The search giant’s negotiations to buy Wiz, a cybersecurity start-up, for $23 billion, come as the Biden administration has taken a hard line against consolidation in tech and other industries.

Start-ups 109

Start-ups Mergers & Acquisitions 109