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Category: IPO

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SPACs: The Next Generation

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Just when most of us had mentally filed SPACs alongside pandemic-era sourdough starters and Zoom happy hours, special purpose acquisition companies—the blank-check vehicles that once raised billions with celebrity endorsements and minimal o...

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Delaware Lawmakers Approve Polarizing Overhaul of Corporate Statute

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For a state small in population and size, Delaware has surprisingly many claims to fame. Known as “The First State” for ratifying the U.S. Constitution before the others in 1787, former President Joe Biden and his family have called Delawar...

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Walgreens Deal Leads Parade of Take-Private Transactions

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Flu season has hit the United States with a vengeance this year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting sharp year-over-year increases in its estimates of indicators such as flu-related hospitalizations for the 2024-202...

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SEC Goes After “Fake It Till You Make It” Fraudsters

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In 2022, a jury convicted Theranos Inc. founder Elizabeth Holmes of perpetrating an audacious fraud against investors in her blood-testing company that turned the Stanford University dropout into a billionaire in her early 20s. Her story ha...

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5 Questions Raised by OpenAI’s For-Profit Shift

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Arguably one of the least nonprofit of nonprofit entities to ever exist, OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit company began in earnest with last week’s announcement that it has raised $6.6 billion in venture capital funding. OpenAI has opera...

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