Our 2022 M&A transactions continued the 2021 trend of a heavy emphasis on sales to private equitybackedstrategic buyers vs. direct sales to private equity, by a factor of 3:1, continuing to evidence that platform transactions from prior years were executing their growth-by-acquisition strategy. A significant number of M&A transactions evidenced downward pressure on enterprise value,…
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NEW REQUIREMENTS TO ENFORCE WEBSITE TERMS & CONDITIONS OF USE
Many businesses include Terms & Conditions of Use on their website and assume that by stating within those Terms & Conditions that they are binding on the user, they actually are binding on the user. Other businesses may be a little more direct, by including a clear link on their home page when the user…
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Five Things NFT Creators and Sellers Need to Know
Non-Fungible Tokens, or “NFTs,” have increasingly begun to attract mainstream attention from creatives, collectors, investors, and a broad range of corporations seeking to explore this new form of digital property. But what are they exactly? What is a Non-Fungible Token (“NFT”)? NFTs are, generally speaking, non-fungible digital representations of the underlying rights that are being…
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WORK-FROM-HOME AND BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY RULES
In today’s complex, work-from-home, and “flat-world” business environment, technology rules. However, along with technology comes countless industry-specific, international, national and state-based regulatory schemes which dictate how, when, why and where data can be processed – not to mention the new world issues with employees working remote. Of course, these practical, regulatory and legal requirements are…
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