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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Mergers & acquisitions

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).

Disclosure statement

Banking; Mergers & acquisitions

Describes the voting equity owners when asked to vote by proxy to another disclosure document of the transaction capabilities of the material. Regular approval of equity owners if they were not ...

Term sheet

Banking; Mergers & acquisitions

Sets a document, the terms and conditions of a proposed acquisition, merger or securities offer. A term sheet may be in the form of a "letter of intent".

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 ...

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.

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 ...