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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	Bankruptcy Bankruptcy Codes Barriers to Entry Blue Sky Blue Sky Laws Board Seat Changes Board Seats Boilerplate Bond Book Value Bootstrapping Break-up Fee Break-Up Valuation Analysis Bridge Financing Burn Rate Business Concept Fit Business Plan Buy-In MBO (BIMBO) Buy-Sell Agreement Bylaws
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	Early Stage Earnout EBITDA EIN Elevator Pitch Employee Stock Option Plans Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) Engagement Letter Equity Equity Carve-Out Equity Financing Escrow Evergreen Fund Exit Exit Strategy Expansion Transactions
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	General Partner Generational Changes Go-shop Golden Share Grants Grossing Up Growth Stage
H	Haircut Hedge Fund Holding Company Horizontal Merger Hurdle Rate
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	J-curve Joint Venture Junior Debt Junk Bond
K	Key Performance Indicator (KPI)
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	Narrow-Based Weighted Average Net Income NewCo NewSub No-shop Clause Non-compete Clause Non-cumulative Dividends Non-disclosure Agreement Non-participating Stock Non-qualified Stock Option Non-solicitation
O	Officer OldCo Option Pool Ordinary Income Tax Other Valuation Methods Outstanding Shares Over-the-Counter Overhang Oversubscription Ownership Analysis Ownership Stake
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	Qualified Financing Quiet Period
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 Private Equity Transactions
U	Underwater Unsecured debt Up Round
V	Valuation Valuation Methodologies Valuation of Private vs. Public Companies Venture Capital Venture Capital Investing Venture Capital Limited Partnership Venture Capital Term Sheets Venture-Backed Company Vertical Merger Vesting Schedule Voting Rights
W	Warrant White Label
Other	4 years with a one-year cliff