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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
Economies of scope
Banking; Mergers & acquisitions
The use of a specific set of skills or an asset currently used to produce a specific product to produce related products.
Earnouts
Banking; Mergers & acquisitions
Payments to the seller based on the acquired business achieving certain profit or revenue targets.
Economies of scale
Banking; Mergers & acquisitions
The spreading of fixed costs over increasing production levels.
Hostile tender offer
Banking; Mergers & acquisitions
A tender offer that is unwanted by the target's board.
Hostile takeover
Banking; Mergers & acquisitions
Acquisition when the initial bid was unsolicited, the target was not seeking a merger at the time of the approach, the approach was contested by the target's management, and control changed hands.
Hubris
Banking; Mergers & acquisitions
An explanation for takeovers that attributes a tendency to overpay to excessive optimism about the value of a deal's potential synergy or excessive confidence in management's ability to manage the ...
