2019 IPO, Venture Capital and M&A Reports

• 6.4.2019

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 2019 IPO Report offers a detailed IPO market review and outlook, plus useful market metrics and articles on topics of interest, including:

• Rates of adoption of JOBS Act relief by emerging growth companies
• Special issues facing companies pursuing non-traditional IPOs and alternative paths to public trading
• New SEC policies and practices intended to encourage IPOs and other public offerings
• Recent SEC rule changes that streamline the confidential treatment process 
• Assembling an IPO team
• Managing pre-IPO equity grants to minimize “cheap stock” issues
• Pros and cons for stockholders selling shares as part of a company’s IPO
• Varying disclosure and reporting obligations facing different types of public companies
• A guide to the IPO lexicon

The 2019 Venture Capital Report offers an in-depth US venture capital market review and outlook, including industry and regional breakdowns, as well as insights on the following topics:

• The potential risks—to both private companies and employees—of Section 83(i) tax deferrals
• The benefits and challenges of pre-IPO “crossover financings”
• The antitrust ramifications of cross-shareholding in companies in the same industry
• Trends in deal terms in VC-backed company M&A transactions and convertible note, SAFE and venture capital financings

The 2019 M&A Report provides a detailed global M&A market review and outlook, as well as insights on the following topics:

• Takeover defenses for public companies
• Recent federal court responses to the rising tide of M&A disclosure lawsuits
• Effects on foreign investments in the United States resulting from the US government’s recent changes to CFIUS
• A comparison of deal terms in public and private acquisitions
• The impact of buy-side representation and warranty insurance on deal terms in private company sales
• Deal term trends in VC-backed company acquisitions

Each report also includes a center spread highlighting prominent recent transactions in each area and company counsel rankings from independent sources showing WilmerHale’s preeminence as counsel in IPOs, VC financings and sales of VC-backed companies.

To request copies, contact WilmerHale’s Client Development Department at [email protected] or call +1 617 526 5600.