PrivCo Dictionary
Comprehensive financial terms dictionary with over 398 finance and investment definitions.
A
- Accelerated vesting
- Acceleration Clause
- Accredited Investor
- Accretion/Dilution Analysis
- Acq-hire
- Acquisition
- Add-On
- Add-on /Bolt-on
- Alternative Assets
- Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT)
- Amended and Restated Article
- Angel Investing
- Angel Investment Group
- Angel Investor
- Anti-dilution Protection
- Asset Sale
- Automatic Conversion
B
C
- C-Corporation
- CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate)
- Call
- Cap Table
- Capital Call
- Capital Structure Analysis
- Carried Interest
- Carveout
- Change of Control
- Change of Control Without a Transaction
- Chapter 11: Reorganization
- Chapter 12: Reorganization
- Chapter 7: Liquidation
- Co-sale
- Common Stock
- Comparable Transaction Analysis
- Conglomerate Merger
- Contingency Payment
- Conversion Discount
- Conversion Rights
- Convertible Debt
- Convertible Note
- Convertible Preferred Stock
- Corporate VC
- Covenant
- Cram Down Round
- Creating Value in Restructuring
- Creditor
- Criteria For Tax-Free Dividend Payments
- Cross-default
- Cumulative Stock
D
- Deal Comparables
- Deal Flow
- Deal Multiples
- Debt
- Debt Financing
- Debt Refinancing
- Debtor in Possession
- Delisting
- Director
- Discounted Cash Flow Analysis
- Distressed Securities
- Distribution
- Divestiture
- Dividend
- Dividend Recapitalization
- Domestic Corporation
- Double Trigger Acceleration
- Down Round
- Drag Along Right
- Drawdown
- Drive-by VC
- Dry Close
- Due Diligence
E
F
- Factors Influencing Valuation
- Fairness Opinion
- Finaancial Analysis for Restructuring
- Financial Buyers
- Financing Out Clause
- Finder
- Finder's Fee
- FINRA
- First-time Fund
- Flat Round
- Follow-on Financing
- Foreign Qualification
- Founder
- Founders’ Shares
- Free Cash Flow
- Friends and Family Round
- Full Ratchet
- Fully-Diluted Basis
- Fund
- Fund of Funds
- Funding Round
G
H
I
- In-Kind Distribution
- Incentive Stock Option
- Incorporation
- Incubator
- Indemnification
- Indemnity
- Information Rights
- Initial Public Offering (IPO)
- Institutional Buyout
- Institutional Investor
- Integration
- Intellectual Property
- Internal Rate of Return
- Internal Restructuring
- Invention Assignment
- Investment Advisor
- Investor Rights Agreement
- IPO Participation Rights
- Issued Shares
- Issuer
- Issues With Respect to Spin-Offs
J
K
L
- Late Stage
- Late Stage Investment
- Late Stage/Mezzanine
- Later Stage Financing
- LBO "Love Letter"
- Lead Investor
- Legal Opinion
- Letter of Intent
- Leverage
- Leveraged Buyout
- Leveraged Buyout (LBO)
- Leveraged ESOP
- License
- Lifestyle Company
- Limited Liability Company
- Limited Liability Partnership
- Limited Partnership
- Line of Credit
- Liquidation Preference
- Liquidity Event
- Lock-up Period
- LP Units
M
- Management
- Management Buy-In (MBI)
- Management Buy-Out
- Management Buyout (MBO)
- Management Changes
- Management Fee
- Management Rights
- Market
- Market Capitalization
- Material Adverse Change Clause
- Merger
- Merger Agreement
- Merger Sub
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Methods to Assess Forms of Restructuring
- Mezzanine Financing
- Mid Stage/Expansion
- Mid-Stage
- Middle-Market
- Milestones
- Minority Share Sale & Venture Capital
N
O
P
- Par Value
- Pari Passu
- Participating Dividends
- Participating Stock
- Pass-Through Entity
- Pay to Play
- Payment in Kind
- Piggy-back Rights
- PIPE (Private Investment in Public Equity)
- Pitchbook
- Placement Agent
- Plan of Reorganization
- Portfolio Company
- Post-money Valuation
- Pre-money Valuation
- Pre-rumor Purchase Premium
- Preemptive Right
- Preferred Stock
- Private Company
- Private Company M&A
- Private Company Valuation
- Private Company Valuation Techniques
- Private equity
- Private Investment Filing Requirements
- Private Offering
- Private Placement
- Private Placement Memorandum
- Private Placement Memorandums (PPM)
- PrivCo
- Pro rata
- Profitability
- Promote
- Prospectus
- Public Company
- Public Company M&A
- Public Offering
- Purchase Agreement
- Purchase Premium
- Put Right
Q
R
- Rachet
- Reasons Behind Restructuring
- Recapitalization
- Redemption
- Redlining
- Registered Agent
- Registrable Securities
- Registration
- Registration Rights
- Reincorporation Merger
- Reporting Company
- Representations and Warranties
- Repurchase Option
- Restricted Stock Purchase Agreement
- Restructuring
- Return on Investment
- Revenue
- Reverse Break Up Fee
- Reverse Merger
- Reverse Vesting
- Right of First RefusaL
- Rights Offering
- Road Show
- Rollup
- Round
- Royalties
S
- S-Corporation
- Sale
- Scalability
- Scale Down
- Scale Up
- Search Fund
- SEC Filing
- SEC Form 10-K
- SEC Form 10-Q
- SEC Form 8-K
- SEC Form D
- SEC Form S-1
- Second Lien Debt
- Second Stage Funding
- Secondary Buyout
- Secondary Sale
- Section 363 Bankruptcy Sale
- Secured Debt
- Securities Exchange Act of 1934
- Securitization Facility
- Security
- Security Interest
- Seed
- Seed Capital
- Seed Stage
- Senior Debt
- Series
- Series A
- Series A Preferred Stock
- Series AA
- Series B
- Share Repurchase
- Shareholder Consent
- Shareholders Agreement
- Shell Corporation
- Single Trigger Acceleration
- Small Business Investment Act of 1958 & the First Venture-Backed Startup
- Small Business Investment Company
- Sources and Uses of Funds
- SPAC
- Special Dividend
- Spin-off
- Spin-Offs
- Split-Offs
- Split-Ups
- Startup
- Stock Options
- Stock Plan
- Stock Purchase Agreement
- Stock Split
- Stockholder’s Equity
- Stockholders
- Strategic Buyers
- Strategic Investment
- Subordinated Debt
- Subscription Price
- Subsidiary
- Supermajority
- Surviving Corporation
- Sweat Equity
- Syndication
T
- Tag Along Right
- Take Private
- Takeover
- Target / Deal Multiples
- Target Company
- Technology Transfer Agreement
- Ten Bagger
- Tender Offer
- Term Sheet
- The Difference between Mergers and Acquisitions
- The First Boom and Bust Cycle ‘82-’92
- The First Leveraged Buyout
- The History of Private Financing
- The Private Company Life Cycle
- The Role of Taxes in Determining a Divestiture Approach
- The Second Boom and Bust Cycle ‘92-’02
- The Third Boom and Bust Cycle ‘03-’07
- Tracking Stock
- Trading Multiple Analysis
- Tranche
- Types of M&A Transactions
- Types of Private Equity Transactions