Insight Partners

APRIL 1, 2025

Choose your exit: IPO or acquisition? The first decision you must make is your endpoint: an initial public offering (IPO), acquisition by a public company, acquisition by a private company, or a private equity takeover? Each requires you to make different decisions as your company grows.

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

(Nasdaq: ROVR) (“Rover” or the “Company”), the world’s largest online marketplace for pet care, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by private equity funds managed by Blackstone (“Blackstone”) in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $2.3bn.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 27, 2024

Rose specialises in mergers and acquisitions, financing transactions, private equity and general corporate matters, according to a press statement.

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Axial

JANUARY 30, 2024

Visit FOCUS Investment Banking’s Profile “The Peakstone Group is an investment bank that specializes in mergers and acquisitions advisory and capital raising for middle market clients. Our partners have unparalleled experience, with involvement in over 200 sales and mergers since 1979.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Layan Odeh of Bloomberg reports CPPIB plows at least $5 billion into private equity in three months: Canada Pension Plan Investment Board poured at least $5 billion into private equity in the last three months of 2024 as the asset class regained appeal. gain in the quarter, driven by returns in private equity and credit.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Global law firm Ropes & Gray has named 12 of its existing attorneys as the firm’s latest Partners, effective 1 November, including several whose practices cater for private equity and other private credit and private fund clients.

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Private Equity Professional

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The “Magnificent Seven” refers to a group of seven high-performing and influential technology companies in the U.S. Private companies continued to face challenges throughout 2024. The percentage of companies demonstrating EBITDA growth fell to 58%, the lowest since Q3 2022.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Under the regulation, more than 50,000 companies globally are estimated to be affected, including public and private companies that must report on the risks and opportunities from social and environmental issues, as well as the impact of their activities on people and the environment.

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Private Equity Professional

AUGUST 12, 2024

Competition Emerges as the Prevailing Theme for the Direct Lending Market in 1H 2024 The return of the broadly syndicated loan (BSL) market, record levels of dry powder in direct lending funds, and a lack of new buyout activity continued to create increased competition among direct lenders in Q2 2024.

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Axial

JULY 27, 2023

CA 11 Gleason Advisors PA 12 ACT Capital Advisors WA 13 Vercor GA 14 EBB Group TX 15 Sun Mergers & Acquisitions NJ 16 New Direction Partners PA 17 Marshall-Stevens CA 18 Cornerstone Business Services, Inc. ASA has 25 years experience in Mergers, Acquisitions, and corporate exits.”

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Pension Pulse

MAY 7, 2024

Transitioning to a private company with these strong partners will not only limit our exposure to volatile financial markets, it also will ensure ALLETE has access to the significant capital needed for our planned investments now and over the long term. Per Share in Cash DULUTH, Minn.— May 6, 2024 — ALLETE, Inc.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 31, 2024

It is not monolithic and includes such varied enterprises as pension fund investment managers such as AIMCo , insurance companies, investment banks, broker dealers, hedge funds, mortgage investment companies – and still others. However, this diversity should rather be seen as a source of strength, not as a vulnerability.

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Axial

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

” Visit SouthWorth’s Profile “Cottonwood Acquisitions is a family office partnership focused on investing in small to mid-sized businesses. ” Visit Northwoods’ Profile “Meraki Investments, LLC is a private investment firm focused on small to medium-sized acquisitions of established quality businesses.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

They were private partnership, they weren’t even public.Yep. And the entire merger department of Goldman Sachs in 1983 was 32 people. Michael Fisch : 00:07:15 [Speaker Changed] The largest fund then was KKR with $175 million. The second largest fund was Forman little with 150. The large, that’s nothing.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Since then, the company has expanded from five data centres in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong, to become a leading hyperscale data centre specialist across 11 sites, including Japan and Malaysia. The acquisition is Blackstone’s biggest-ever investment in the Asia-Pacific region, outweighing its A$8.9

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 21, 2023

He joined McCarthy Tétrault back in 1997 and was a corporate litigator working on mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies and other files. I told him I track pension funds very closely and there's no doubt CDPQ is a global leader in sustainable/ responsible investing. We began with a quick overview of his career.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

Nobody in the world writes about markets, finance derivatives, hedge funds, you name it, the way Matt does. But there’s also a lot of, like at Wittel, you know, I was at Wachtel in 2005 to 2007, so really near the peak of a big merger’s boom. And it’s why he has such an amazing following. And I love that.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

In fact, that was pre -merger with Manny Hanny and Chemical, and JP Morgan, and et cetera. Unfortunately, you know, they went through a series of about a dozen mergers — RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: There was just a run of acquisitions until they’re the behemoth. How did you get to Chase? KENCEL: Sure. KENCEL: Right.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 22, 2023

Do you feel like this reception maybe opens the door for some of those other big-name private companies out there? Still way behind Walmart, which 22% something you're trying to see why that merger wouldn't be allowed to go through. Matt, we saw a pretty big acquisition this week. It's a big pill for Nasdaq to swallow.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 5, 2024

They are not like any other fund that you’ll hear me talk about. I found this conversation to be fascinating, and even though we kinda wander off into the weeds of private credit, it’s so informative and so interesting. So I remember writing the merger, our business plan there. They have an incredible track record.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 15, 2024

So they've got a metric, Funds From Operation, commonly known as FFO. I would look at that, look at the debt service of some of these companies. Asit Sharma: So a private company called Athletic Brewing, its valuation has doubled from two years ago. Asit Sharma: Why rush? Ricky Mulvey: Okay. Lou Whiteman: I'm a five here.

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The Big Picture

JULY 11, 2023

Just an incredible, insightful conversation about how to build a company, how to grow through acquisitions, how to make sure everybody on your team understands their role, is appreciated, and is acting and performing at the highest levels. But once the rules started changing, it became difficult around things like seeding new funds.

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Zajac Group

JANUARY 24, 2025

In terms of equity compensation, a tender offer can refer to an organized transaction that allows shareholders of private company stock to sell before an initial public offering (IPO). This is why it is so important, if you own shares in a private company, to seriously consider participating in a tender offer.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2025

We will intentionally leverage the strength in our top line to both fund our highest ever beginning of the year, total postpaid net customer additions expectation and also bolster investments across our network and digital capabilities, not only to deliver on 2025 but continuing to set up momentum against our multiyear guide.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 27, 2025

But it did have a good, a fortunate opportunity to go really work at a startup hedge fund. And then as as companies grow and, and you’re only five people, you tend to start to wear a lot of hats. So you start out as an accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers, you’re a controller at m and m Partners, a hedge funds.

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Insight Partners

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Despite reduced funding, the severity of hacks will drive demand for solutions that address vulnerabilities left by incumbent platforms. Teddie Wardi: “For M&A, well see more acquisitions where private companies are acquiring smaller series A/B companies. ” Does this mean: We are so back ?

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