Private equity

Private equity

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employee stock repurchase agreement

Financial services; Private equity

(USA) An arrangement in which a corporation sells stock to its employees but reserves the right to repurchase it under certain conditions.

employee stock purchase plan

Financial services; Private equity

(USA) A plan under which key employees are given the right to purchase shares of the company at a future date on favourable terms. Under the USA Internal Revenue Code, if a plan meets certain ...

electronic data gathering, analysis, and retrieval

Financial services; Private equity

(USA) The SEC’s system required to be used since 1995 by substantially all public companies to file required reports, such as quarterly and annual reports with the SEC, electronically, those enabling ...

effective par

Financial services; Private equity

(USA) The par value for preferred stock that would ordinarily correspond to a given dividend rate.

effective date

Financial services; Private equity

(USA) The date of the SEC order declaring the registration statement for a public offering to be effective, at which time the sale of shares to the public can commence. See ‘Acceleration Order’, ...

earnout

Financial services; Private equity

An arrangement in which sellers of a business may receive additional future payments for the business based upon economic performance of the sold business or the buyer (including the sold business) ...