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WeWork has filed to begin bankruptcy proceedings to protect itself as it reorganizes debt in US and Canada only. Co-working space provider WeWork Inc (NYSE: WE) has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in New Jersey federal court. The bankruptcy filing is expected to protect the company from action against landlords and creditors as the company tries to manage its heavy debt. WeWork is now worth less than $50 million, from a $47 billion valuation back in 2019. WeWork Bankruptcy In a...

The U.S.-based provider of shared workspaces for technology startups and services for other enterprises WeWork sells Managed by Q unit acquired earlier this year. As the company’s spokesperson stated, the sum of purchase made up about $220 million at that time, however, now the deal will cost less than a quarter of this price.According to Bloomberg, the decision to sell Managed by Q results from WeWork’s need to cut its costs and unload assets. Currently, WeWork is in private talks with...

As we are coming to the year’s end we somehow always tend to look in the past to reconcile what was good and what wasn’t. Speaking of the IPOs, we can surely say this year was marked by numerous IPO failures with more than half of stock market debuts now trading below their initial offering.We can just mention hail-raiding companies as are Uber and Lyft who were probably the biggest losers of the year. However, there were also plenty of unicorns that got smashed in 2019 including Peloton (the...

In what seems like an end to a disappointing year for troubled startup WeWork the company recently announced its intention to lay off 2,400 workers from the company following near collapse. The once-famed startup announced this on Thursday. The layoffs amount to roughly 20% of its 12,500 strong workforces. Some more layoffs of over 1,000 people are expected as several business units of the company are going to be shut down, merged or sold off as the company refocuses and resets several...

In what seems to be a last attempt to save shared workspace company WeWork, Softbank which is by far the superstar of Venture Capital finance firms has decided to wade into the matter once again with a compromise that might just save the company from teetering on the edge of oblivion.In an agreement that gives Softbank about 80% control of WeWork, co-founder and CEO Adam Neumann is expected to walk away with a bonus package worth about $1. 7 billion. Sources indicate that Softbank has offered...

The We Company, WeWork’s parent company, has officially moved to withdraw its S-1 filing, with the intention of postponing its earlier announced and widely talked about initial public offering (IPO). The company’s intention to go public was initially announced on the 14th of August but has gotten a lot of backlash since then, especially because of the company’s governance structure.WeWork has been consistently criticized for not just its governance structure, but also the company’s staggering...

SoftBank Group Corp., a Japanese multinational conglomerate holding company and the largest investor in WeWork, is currently deliberating on investing an additional $1 billion into the space sharing startup. This deliberation involves the revisiting certain terms in the warrant agreement between the two firms.Before now, SoftBank had concluded terms with WeWork for an investment of $1.5 billion before the company’s issues seemed to intensify, forcing it to discontinue its earlier agreed-upon...

WeWork is less than a decade old but is already enmeshed in more than its own fair share of troubles. The company which was founded back in 2010 has already had a large number of its most senior officials exiting. WeWork executives are very unhappy because of all the uncertainty about the company’s corporate governance methods, as well as all the obscurity about the company’s initial public offering (IPO) until it has been recently canceled.Furthermore, there is a lot of distrust and...

Finally, after much expectation that it would occur, it is hoped by the investment and venture capital community that the We Company owners of corporate space company WeWork would put its plans for its Initial Public Offering on hold. This comes after serious doubt existed as to the original valuation of the company which went down sharply from $47 Billion to less than $15 Billion in recent weeks.The Wall Street Journal reports that investors had already started to query the initial valuation...