When it comes to the wild world of corporate mergers and acquisitions, understanding the different merger options available to companies is crucial to building a successful business strategy. So what is the difference between a forward merger, a forward triangular merger, and a reverse triangular merger? Learn about the steps, benefits and limitations of each…
Virtual data rooms are essential to getting all the proper information needed to complete a merger and acquisition, but they are also important when it comes to legal compliance audits. It is important for businesses to ensure that they are compliant with federal and state regulations regarding the use of financial instruments by their business.…
Mergers and acquisitions are complicated, intricate affairs, and there’s a lot of data that you need to sift through to get all of the information you need to make an informed decision–and it’s not just one decision, but many, over and over. The entire process can take months or more than a year. Through a…
We know we need to choose good passwords, following all the rules about capitalization and special characters, but how secure does our email really have to be? How easy is it to crack into an email account and what is at risk? The answers may worry and surprise you. Getting access to an email account…
For every merger and acquisition that goes through there are several that fall through. It’s a risk of doing business. In some cases there are clauses built into the deal to keep one side from backing out: clauses that cause a side to pay a large fee if they decide to bail on the M&A…
When a business needs money to maintain operations and expand their business, they often need outside sources of capital. But where do they get this capital from, and what is the right way to raise capital? First off, let’s start with the two ways of raising capital: debt or equity. One is borrowing the money…
Image courtesy of The Generator Judge By now, whether you believe in man-made climate change or not, the world is making major shifts from fossil fuels to renewable energy, and customers are making purchase decision (and even some governments are making investment decisions) on whether or not a certain company is being energy efficient. It’s…
There are times when a merger seems like the ideal thing to do: you’ve launched a company, you’ve hit great heights, but you’re a crossroads where you’re not sure how exactly to expand–you’ve never been this big before, and you just don’t have the expertise and infrastructure to expand bigger than where you are. Or…
When it comes to mergers and acquisitions, as well as many other financial transactions between two companies, the days of brick-and-mortar data rooms are over. What once was a necessity for the secure reviewing of sensitive documents is now an archaic thing of the past that has been eclipsed by the overwhelming power of technology.…
Market Capitalization & Enterprise Value: What’s the Difference? When valuing a company, it’s important to be able to put a number on that valuation with which you can compare it to other companies, to thus make a quick comparison between their relative value. Two ways to measure the market value of a company are market…