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Mergers & acquisitions
Referring to the aspect of corporate strategy, finance and management that deals with the buying, selling or combining of different companies that can assist a growing company to grow rapidly without having to create another business entity.
Industry: Banking; Business services
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Mergers & acquisitions
self-tender offer
Banking; Mergers & acquisitions
A tender offer used when a firm seeks to repurchase its stock from its shareholders.
share-exchange ratio
Banking; Mergers & acquisitions
The number of shares of the acquirer’s stock to be exchanged for each share of the target’s stock.
shareholders’ interest theory
Banking; Mergers & acquisitions
The presumption that management resistance to proposed takeovers is a good bargaining strategy to increase the purchase price for the benefit of the target firm’s shareholders.
shark repellents
Banking; Mergers & acquisitions
Specific types of takeover defenses that can be adopted by amending either a corporate charter or its bylaws.
shell corporation
Banking; Mergers & acquisitions
One that is incorporated but has no significant assets or operations. Sources of value Factors increasing the cash flow of the combined companies.
spin-off
Banking; Mergers & acquisitions
A transaction in which a parent creates a new legal subsidiary and distributes shares it owns in the subsidiary to its current shareholders as a stock dividend.
split-off
Banking; Mergers & acquisitions
A variation of a spin-off in which some parent company shareholders receive shares in a subsidiary in return for relinquishing their parent company shares.
