Austin Maloney

1 month ago | lexology.com | Austin Maloney |Corinne Davis

Manufacturing M&A MinuteMarch 2025Quick LinksPage 2 2024 Delaware Earnout DecisionsPage 6 Interview with David M.

1 month ago | nationalmortgagenews.com | Michael Goldman |Austin Maloney

The start of 2025 has provided no shortage of headlines. Despite the change in presidential administrations and three rate cuts from the Federal Reserve since last summer, mortgage rates have remained fairly steady into the new year. After a drop to a 52-week low in late September (6.08% for the 30-year fixed rate and 5.15% for the 15-year fixed rate), rates have hovered just below 7%.

Aug 22, 2024 | lexology.com | Austin Maloney

MANUFACTURINGM&A MINUTEAUGUST 2024Market SnapshotMultiples (based on EBITDA) for manufacturing business with an enterprise value between $10M and $250M have dropped from a peak of 7.3x in 2022 to 6.8x YTD in 2024 but are up from 6.5x in 2023. Deal uncertainty and failed processes remain frustratingly high Datasite identified only 49% of processes that used its infrastructure as closing in 2023 (down 9% from 2022).

Apr 25, 2024 | natlawreview.com | Austin Maloney

Background On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) published a proposed rule (the “Proposed Rule”) that would have had the effect of banning nearly all employee non-competes throughout the United States and invalidate all such existing agreements subject to a few exceptions.[1] We wrote about the Proposed Rule at the time of publication and are providing an update on the Final Rule that was released by the FTC on April 23, 2024 (the “Final Rule”) after a lengthy review and...

Apr 25, 2024 | lexology.com | Austin Maloney |Jordan G. Sisco |Ryan Glasgow |Kevin Hahm |Tyler S. Laughinghouse

Background On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) published a proposed rule (the “Proposed Rule”) that would have had the effect of banning nearly all employee non-competes throughout the United States and invalidate all such existing agreements subject to a few exceptions.[1] We wrote about the Proposed Rule at the time of publication and are providing an update on the Final Rule that was released by the FTC on April 23, 2024 (the “Final Rule”) after a lengthy review and...