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

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