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Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Food Venture Financing News – Weekly Issue No. 246

Food Venture Financing Trends - Bengaluru-based functional food startup Lo! Foods raised $3.5 million in a Series B funding round to enhance operational capabilities and launch new product lines....more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

From Federal to State: Building the New Life Sciences Capital Stack | Life Sciences Snapshot – Q3 2025

This year, U.S. VC funding into the life sciences sector has cooled: Q1 softness was followed by a decade low in VC transactions in Q2. Despite the moderation in dealmaking volume, investors continued to deploy sizable...more

Fenwick & West LLP

AI Startups Outpace the Market Again - But for How Long?

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AI continues to be the standout in venture dealmaking, with Q1 2025 extending the sector’s winning streak. AI companies raised more capital and achieved significantly higher pre-money valuations than their non-AI...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Transaction and Financing Trends in Life Sciences - European Health & Life Sciences Symposium 2025

In April, McDermott was pleased to once again host our annual European Health & Life Sciences Symposium in Paris. Welcoming a crowd of more than 300 innovators, investors, business leaders and advisers from across the...more

Ropes & Gray LLP

Special Situations Credit: 2024 Year In Review and 2025 Outlook

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As expected, we experienced continued strong deal flow for special situations credit transactions in 2024, with both macroeconomic and industry-specific factors broadly impacting markets. While a slight lowering of interest...more

White & Case LLP

European leveraged finance: A market reawakened

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European leveraged finance markets back on track -European leveraged finance markets rallied strongly in 2024, with momentum for new deals and opportunities for borrowers and lenders alike in 2025 - Europe's leveraged...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

A Sharper Focus: Exploring VC Side Letters

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A side letter in the venture capital sector is an agreement between an investor and the company it is investing in that entitles the investor to certain contractual rights, which supplement and are in addition to other rights...more

A&O Shearman

Contractual Interpretation: eSIMplified

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In Kigen v NOR Capital, the High Court was asked to interpret a clause to determine whether a “Success Fee” was payable by one party to the other. In a useful illustration of how to apply the established principles of...more

Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP

A Review of the New Jersey Legislature’s Latest Amendments to the New Jersey Aspire Program

On December 19, 2024, the New Jersey legislature passed legislation amending multiple sections of statute governing the New Jersey Aspire Program, most importantly as it relates to the state purchase of unused tax credits....more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Food Venture Financing News - Weekly Issue No. 218

Food Venture Financing Trends - Rebel Foods, Wendy's India franchisee and cloud kitchen operator, announced that it raised $210 million in its Series G financing....more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

FFFalalala December 2024 - Syndicate Diligence Considerations

Subscription credit facilities are a widely utilized product in the fund finance market, offering sponsors access to a reliable source of financing to bridge capital call and to lenders collateral backed by investors’ capital...more

White & Case LLP

Sukuk markets keep close eye on standards review

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The sukuk market is keeping a close watch on a proposed set of Sharia guidelines that could significantly change how sukuk instruments are structured and distributed - The Bahrain-based Accounting and Auditing Organization...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Clearing the Hurdle, September 2024 - Hurdling Into the Borrowing Base

As was briefly touched upon in a prior Fund Finance Friday article “Borrowing Base/Coverage Ratio Approaches in Subscription Finance Facilities,” a subscription facility which uses the borrowing base approach looks at each...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

The Entrepreneurs Report – 1H 2024

In this latest issue of The Entrepreneurs Report, we’ve compiled a range of data on venture, convertible note, and SAFE financing transactions in which the firm was involved during the second quarter of 2024, with the...more

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

M&A Insights and Outlooks in the Packaging and Industrial Industries: A Conversation with Brett Kornblatt of Stout

To help businesses, investors, and deal professionals better understand the evolving M&A market, Robert Connolly – a partner in and leader of LP’s Corporate Practice Group – shares a series of conversations with M&A experts. ...more

Morgan Lewis

Corporate Venture Capital Survey: Q1 2024

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While the economic terms of each investment will be unique based on the distinct facts and circumstances of the companies and investors participating, the Q1 2024 corporate venture capital survey indicates that the overall...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Food Venture Financing News - Weekly Issue No. 197

Food Venture Financing Trends - Athletic Brewing, a nonalcoholic beer producer, announced that it raised $50 million in equity financing....more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

SAFE Financing – a Deep Dive on the Evolution of the SAFE

As we’ve noted in a previous article, the Y Combinator-hosted SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) has become the investment contract of choice for startup companies that have already attracted investors. However, the...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

SAFE Financing – Valuation Cap vs. Discount Variants

So you decided to use a SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) to raise money for your new startup – congratulations! And you’re off to a good start because you read our previous article, which summarized how to use the...more

A&O Shearman

Nuclear energy: ambitious plans, complex challenges in the Netherlands and abroad

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The Dutch government recently announced its intention to build four new nuclear power plants by 2040, as part of its strategy to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 and reduce its dependence on natural gas imports....more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Shining a Light on “Security-Lite” March 2024 - What We're Reading

“Increasing allocations will come down to cash flows,” according to Bain & Co. in its recent Global Private Equity Report 2024. The practical impact of net cash flow position for buyout fund investors, reflected in DPI, will...more

WilmerHale

2024 Venture Capital Report

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Venture capital financing activity in 2023 contracted for the second consecutive year in the face of rising interest rates, concerns regarding the trajectory of the economy and continued geopolitical tension. VC-backed...more

DarrowEverett LLP

Venture Debt: Down Round Protection Without Triggering Downside Provisions

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There is increasing chatter in the startup and investor space surrounding venture debt. It is not at all surprising that as the availability of ready capital has contracted considerably over the past two years, debt and...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Teaming Up for Term Loans February 2024 - Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands: A Comparative Analysis of Two Leading Fund Finance...

Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands are two of the world’s leading fund formation jurisdictions, and account for a large portion of the private equity funds domicile market. Most private equity fund structures are comprised of...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Finance Frontiers February 2024 - Writing to Reach You – Investor Letters and Subscription Facilities

While Chris van Heerden’s recent article gave some cause for optimism over the fundraising environment for 2024, for now on the ground we are continuing to see significantly longer lead times before funds hit their target...more

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