What to look for
Asset Purchase
Carve-Outs
Change and Control
Confidentiality Agreements
Mergers & Acquisitions
Negotiation Tactics
A
- Accounting
- Advance Notice Bylaws
- Antitakeover Provisions/Laws
- Antitrust
- Appraisal Rights
- Asset Purchases
- Attorney-Client Privilege
- Auctions
B
- Bank M&A
- Basics
- Best Efforts Offerings
- Best Price Rule
- Books & Records
- Break-Up/Termination Fees
- Busted Deals
C
- Canadian M&A
- Carve-Outs
- Change-in-Control
- Closely Held/Family-Owned
- Closings
- Comprehensive Deal Guides
- Conference Notes
- Confidentiality Agreements
- Contingent Considerations
- Controlling Shareholders
- Cross-Border Deals
- Cybersecurity/Privacy Issues
D
- Dealrooms/Datarooms
- Debt Exchanges
- Delay Vote
- Disclosure
- Discounted Cash Flow Analysis
- Distressed Targets
- Division Sales
- Due Diligence
E
- Earnouts
- European M&A
- Exclusive Forum Bylaws
- Exit Strategies
F
- Fairness Opinions
- Fee Arrangements
- Fiduciary Duties
- Financial Advisors
- Financing
- Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
- Forms of Consideration
G
- Going Dark
- Going Private
- Golden Parachutes
- Go-Shop Provisions/Standstill Agreements
- Greenmail
H
- Hedge Funds
- Hostile Takeovers/Change of Control
I
- Inspection Demands
- Insurance
- Integration/Implementing Merger
- Intellectual Property
- International/Cross-Border
- Investment Bankers
J
- Jargon for M&A
- Joint Ventures
L
- Letters of Intent
- Leveraged Buyouts/Bridge Loans
- Litigation
- LLCs
- Lock-Ups
M
- M&A Board Committees
- MAC Clauses
- Merger of Equals
- Middle Market M&A
- Minority Holders/Squeeze-Outs
N
- National Security Considerations
- Negotiation Tactics
- Nevada Law
- Non-Disclosure Agreements
- Non-GAAP Measures/Pro Formas
P
- Poison Pills
- Post-Acquisition Disputes
- Private Deals
- Private Equity
- Privacy Issues
- Projections
- Proxy Fights
- Purchase Price Provisions
R
- REITs
- Representations & Warranties
- Restructurings
- Reverse Mergers
S
- Sample Documents
- Schedule 13Ds
- SEC Filing Fees
- Secondary Offerings
- Selling Shareholders
- Severance/Executive Compensation
- Share Lending
- Shareholder Activism
- Shareholder Agreements
- Shareholder Approval
- Short-Form Mergers
- Small Business
- Social Issues
- Social Media
- Sovereign Wealth
- SPACs
- Special Committees/Director Independence
- Spin-Offs
- Standstill Agreements
- Staple Financing
- State Law
- Stock Elections
- Stock Exchanges
- Stockholder Lists
- Stock Repurchases
- Stories
- Stub Equity
T
- Tax
- Tender Offers
- Term Sheets
- Top-Up Options
- Transaction Insurance
V
- Valuation
- Voting Agreements
W
- Written Consents