Mergers & acquisitions

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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reverse mergers

Banking; Mergers & acquisitions

A process in which an active, non-public company merges into a shell company with no significant operations but has a class of equity securities registered with the securities administrators (such as ...

fairness opinions

Banking; Mergers & acquisitions

Issued by an independent valuation firm to provide comfort to the equity owners of a seller that the consideration offered for their shares is fair.

proxy statements

Banking; Mergers & acquisitions

A disclosure document describing the material features of a transaction to be voted on by the equity owners when they are asked to give a voting proxy to another. If the equity owners are not being ...

data rooms

Banking; Mergers & acquisitions

A place where a company's records and other due diligence materials are placed for inspection by prospective buyers. Data rooms can be a physical location.Alternatively, companies may scan those ...

virtual data room

Banking; Mergers & acquisitions

A place where a company's records and other due diligence materials are placed for inspection by prospective buyers. Data rooms can be a physical location.Alternatively, companies may scan those ...

M & A

Banking; Mergers & acquisitions

Mergers and Acquisitions. When companies are consolidated, either when two join to form a new company (mergers), or one company is bought by another (acquistions).

crown jewel defense

Banking; Mergers & acquisitions

Tactic to deter a hostile takeover, in which a company sells off its most attractive assets to a friendly third party or a spin-off company. By doing so, the purchase of the company will seem ...