- 100 Day Plan
- 2 and 20 Fee Structure
- 363 Sale
- Accelerated Monitoring Fees
- Acquhire
- Acquiree
- Acquisition Financing
- Add-On Acquisition
- All In Method
- Angel Investor
- Anti-sandbagging
- Asset Purchase Agreement
- Asset Sale
- Assignment
- Auction Process
- Bait and Switch
- Baskets and Caps
- Beachhead Acquisition
- Bid Instructions
- Binding Offer
- Bolt-on Acquisition
- Bought Deal
- Boutique Investment Bank
- Break-up Fee
- Broad Auction
- Bulge Bracket
- Bulge Bracket Investment Bank
- Business Broker
- Buy and Build Strategy
- Buy Side
- Buyer Broker
- Buyer Indemnity
- Buy-In Management Buyout
- Buyout
- Capital Asset Pricing Model
- Capital Structure
- Capitalization Factor
- Carve-Out
- Cash-On-Cash Return
- Certainty of Closure
- Change of Control
- Classified Boards
- Clawback Provision
- Closing
- Closing Condition
- Closing Date
- Closing Memorandum
- Club Deal
- Coattail Provision
- Commitment Fee
- Competitive Bid Process
- Competitive Tension
- Conditions Precedent
- Confidential Information Memorandum
- Confirmatory Due Diligence
- Conglomerate Merger
- Consideration Shares
- Controlled Auction
- Covenant
- Data Room
- Dead Deal Cost
- Deal Fatigue
- Deal Flow
- Deal Sourcing
- Debt Free Cash Free
- Debt Recapitalization
- Defensive Lead
- Defensive Merger
- Deferred Consideration
- Definitive Purchase Agreement
- Divesting
- Drag-along Rights
- Dry Powder
- Dual Capitalization
- Due Diligence
- Due Diligence Grind
- Dutch Auction
- Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation and Amortization
- Earnout
- Employment Agreement
- English Auction
- Environmental Liability
- Equity Firm
- Equity Kicker
- Equity Sale
- Exclusivity
- Exclusivity Period
- Exit Channels
- Exit Fee
- Fairness Opinion
- Family Office
- Fee Tail
- Final Prospectus
- Financial Buyer
- Financial Engineering
- Financial Model
- Financing Contingency
- First-Mover Advantage
- Fixed Success Fee
- Flat Percentage Success Fee
- Flip-over Pill
- Fundless Sponsor
- Funds From Operations Multiple
- Garden Leave
- General Partner
- Golden Parachute
- GP Commitment
- Gray Knight
- Green Shoe
- Greenmail
- Hello Fees
- Hockey Stick Projection
- Holdback
- Horizontal Merger
- Hostile Takeover
- Hypothecation
- Indemnity
- Independent Sponsor (Fundless Sponsor)
- Indicative Offer
- Individual Goodwill
- Industry Agnostic
- Institutional Strip
- Investment Bank
- Investment Banker Bake-off
- Investment Criteria
- Irrevocable Proxy
- JAMBOG
- J-Curve
- Key Man Provision
- Lady Macbeth Strategy
- Last Twelve Months
- Lead Underwriter
- Legal Due Diligence
- Lehman Scale
- Leverage
- Leveraged Buyout
- Limited Partner
- Liquidity Event
- Litigation Holdback
- Lock Up Provision
- Lockup Period
- Lockup Transaction
- M&A Intermediary
- Management Buy-in
- Management Buyout
- Management Presentation
- Merchant Bank
- Merger and Acquisition Advisory Firm
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Mezzanine Debt
- Micro Private Equity
- Middle Market Investment Bank
- Monetization
- Monitoring Fee
- Multiple of Revenue
- Negative Covenant
- Negotiated Sale
- Net Debt
- Net Operating Working Capital
- Non-Competition Agreement
- Non-Disclosure Agreement
- Non-solicitation Agreement
- No-Shop Clause
- No-Shop Provision
- NTM EV/EBITDA
- NTM Revenue
- Offering Memorandum
- One-step Private Auction
- Overall Fund Period
- Overallotment
- Pac-Man Defense
- Pitchbook
- Platform Company
- Pledge Fund
- Poison Pill
- Portfolio Company
- Positive Covenant
- Post-Offer Defense
- Preferred Return
- Preferred Stock
- Pre-offer Defenses
- Private Equity
- Private Equity Carry
- Private Equity Funds
- Private Equity Investment Period
- Private Equity Recapitalization
- Private Investment Banker
- Proprietary Deal
- Prospectus
- Public Investment Banker
- Purchase and Sale Agreement
- Purchase Price
- Purchase Price Concession
- Quality of Earnings Report
- Recap Fee
- Recapitalization
- Redeemable Preferred
- Regional Investment Bank
- Representation
- Reps and Warranties
- Restricted Stock
- Retainer Fees
- Re-trade
- Re-trading
- Return on Assets
- Reverse Earnout
- Reverse Scaled Success Fee
- Reverse Termination Fee
- Revlon Moment
- Revlon Rule
- Rolled Equity
- Roll-Up
- Sale Process
- Sandbagging
- Scaled Success Fee
- Search Fund
- Secondary Market
- Securities Exchange Act of 1934
- Sell Side
- Seller Friendly Purchase Agreement
- Seller Indemnity
- Seller Note
- Shareholders' Rights Plan
- Shark Repellents
- Sources and Uses
- Sovereign Wealth Fund
- Staggered Board
- Stalking Horse Bidder
- Stand-Alone Value
- Standby Fee
- Standstill Agreement
- Staple Financing
- Stay Bonus
- Stock Purchase Agreement
- Story Deal
- Strategic Buyer
- Strategic Flexibility
- Strategic Private Equity
- Stuckholders
- Subordinated Debt
- Subordination Agreement
- Success Fee
- Supermajority Provision
- Survival Period
- Sweat Equity
- Sweet Equity
- Syndicate Desk
- Tail Period
- Target Company
- Targeted Auctions
- Teaser
- Tombstone
- Trailing Twelve Months
- TTM EV/EBITDA
- TTM Revenue
- Tuck-In Acquisition
- Two-step Private Auction
- Under the Tent
- Unilateral NDA
- Unitranche Financing
- Valuation
- Valuation Gap
- Vendor Financing
- Vendor Take Back
- Venture Capital
- Vertical Merger
- Virtual Data Room
- Voting Trust
- Vulture Fund
- Warrant
- Warranty
- Warranty and Indemnity
- Waterfall Structure
- White Knight
- White Squire
- Winner's Curse
- Working Capital Threshold
- Your Watch, My Watch Clause
- Zombie Firm
