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WilmerHale’s annual IPO, Venture Capital and M&A Reports offer insights into market conditions and provide comprehensive statistics and analysis that are hard to find elsewhere.

The 2020 M&A Report provides a detailed global M&A market review and outlook, as well as insights on key topics.

The 2020 Venture Capital Report offers an in-depth US venture capital market review and outlook, including industry and regional breakdowns, as well as insights on a number of key topics.

The 2020 IPO Report offers a detailed IPO market review and outlook, plus useful market metrics and articles on topics of interest for pre-IPO companies.

On Friday, June 5, 2020, the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act of 2020 (the Act) became law. The Act modifies previously adopted CARES Act provisions related to the Paycheck Protection Program administered by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).

On April 30, 2020, the Federal Reserve announced actions to expand the Main Street Lending Program to three credit facilities (up from two) aimed at small and medium-sized businesses.

In this article published by the American Bar Association Business Law Section, Kirk Nahra explains what startups need to know about privacy law.

IRS guidance released yesterday would result in a surprise tax on paycheck protection program loan forgiveness. Congress included a provision in the law to make forgiveness tax-free, but the IRS is denying deductions for the payroll and other costs funded with the PPP loan (and use to compute the forgiveness amount).

WilmerHale represented Stash, one of the fastest-growing banking and investing services, in its $112 million Series F funding. 

COVID-19 continues to spread at an alarming rate, causing rippling effects throughout our daily lives and profoundly impacting our health, wellness, financial futures and families. For companies, and especially start-up and emerging companies, uncertainty and turbulence have become the new normal

On Friday, March 27, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) became law.

On March 16, 2020, ZeroNorth announced that it raised a $10 million Series A+ funding round led by Crosslink Capital, along with existing investors ClearSky, Rally Ventures and Petrillo Capital.

In 2019, we served as counsel in more than 225 venture financings raising in excess of $5 billion, including some of the largest and most prominent deals of the year.

RunSafe Security, the pioneer of a patented process to immunize software without developer friction from cyber attacks, announced that it closed a $6.3 million Series A Round. 

1366 Technologies, developer of manufacturing solutions for silicon cell manufacturers, has raised $18M in Series E funding from both return investors and several new investors, including Breakthrough Energy Ventures.