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Weil’s Q1 2021 Quarterly Private Equity Update: Trends in Minority Investments

Timothy Burns — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 21:07:00 +0000

Weil’s Global Private Equity Update provides updates on current topics and trends in global private equity. This issue summarizes trends in minority investments across jurisdictions. View Weil’s Q1 2021 Global PE Update.

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Crypto Comes of Age: M&A Considerations as Crypto Deal Activity Surges

Glenn D. West — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 13:54:47 +0000

With Bitcoin’s latest bull run resulting in its price surge by almost 6x over the last year, taking hundreds of other digital currencies along for the ride, it is becoming increasingly clear that crypto-related merger activity is poised to skyrocket in 2021. According to a PwC report on the crypto M&A fundraising landscape, the global […]

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Weil’s Q2 2020 Quarterly Private Equity Update: Post COVID-19 PIPE Deals

Douglas P. Warner — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 21:18:47 +0000

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting social distancing guidelines and business shutdowns throughout the U.S., global markets have experienced volatility not seen since the 2008 financial crisis. Beyond the turbulence in public markets, businesses throughout the country and globally are feeling an increasing strain as they grapple with declining revenues, cash […]

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Weil’s Q4 2019 Quarterly Private Equity Update: Going Private Transactions in the U.S., the U.K. and Hong Kong

Ian Hamilton — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 13:53:00 +0000

Private equity sponsors and other financial investors continue to look at going private transactions. In this update, we summarize key similarities and differences of going private transactions in three financial centers with global reach: the U.S., the U.K., and Hong Kong. View the Q4 2019 Global PE Update.

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Weil’s Q2 2019 Quarterly Private Equity Update: U.S. and U.K. SPACs

Douglas P. Warner — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 15:27:44 +0000

In this issue, we compare the key similarities and differences between U.S. and U.K. SPACs. SPACs are increasingly being viewed as an additional platform for private equity sponsors to complement their existing platforms. They provide sponsors with favorable economics and the opportunity to target companies that may want to go public rather than remain private […]

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Weil’s Q1 2019 Quarterly Private Equity Update: 2018 in Review

Brian Gingold — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 21:34:51 +0000

In this issue, we look back on 2018 in terms of market activity, trends and developments across the U.S., Europe and Asia, and look ahead to 2019. View Weil’s Q1 2019 Global PE Update.

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A Delaware Supreme Court Footnote Reignites Concerns about the Reliability of Contractual Representations & Warranties–Are Deal Lawyers Really Going to Start Debating Sandbagging Again?

Glenn D. West — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 17:36:51 +0000

Earlier this year, in Eagle Force Holdings LLC v. Campbell,[1] the Delaware Supreme Court created a stir in some parts of the deal lawyer community as the result of a footnote that was otherwise irrelevant to its holding. That footnote suggested that Delaware law was not as clear as many previously believed with respect to […]

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While Time Marches On—Breach of Representations & Warranties, Survival Periods, and New York’s Statute of Limitations

Glenn D. West — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 14:57:38 +0000

Introduction On October 16, 2018, New York’s highest court held that freedom of contract is strictly constrained by the state’s statute of limitations regime.[1] Parties are simply not permitted, at the time they enter into a contract, to contractually agree to delay the commencement, or extend the expiration date, of New York’s six-year statute of […]

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Monitoring SEC Compliance with Equity Issuances to Employees

Private Equity Alert — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 12:59:44 +0000

A recent SEC order serves as a reminder to private equity sponsors to ensure that their portfolio companies monitor compliance with Rule 701 of the Securities Act of 1933 in connection with the issuance of incentive equity to employees, directors and officers. The SEC charged a privately-owned company, Credit Karma Inc., with violating Rule 701[1] […]

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How a 12 Month Survival Period Can Become A Lot Longer (or Not)—the Required Notice of Claim

Glenn D. West — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 08:48:49 +0000

Private equity sellers and buyers carefully negotiate the time periods during which post-closing indemnification claims may be made in the acquisition agreement for a target company, assuming in the current market there is any post-closing indemnification at all. For the private equity seller, the survival period is intended to demark the time after which there […]

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