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…
What is the Role of an M&A Lawyer? What is an M&A? A merger and acquisition (M&A) is a broad term used to describe the consolidation, amalgamation, and purchasing of one company by another. This can happen through many different mechanisms, such as mergers, acquisitions, consolidations, tender offers, purchase of assets, and management acquisitions. …
Amalgamation 101: The Ins and Outs In the simplest terms, an amalgamation in business is the combination of two companies into one larger single company. In this sense, it has much in common with mergers and acquisitions, though the terms are not necessarily interchangeable in all cases. The basic differences are these: Acquisition: …
Forward Mergers vs. Reverse Triangular Mergers Long before the advent of virtual data rooms, mergers and acquisitions were happening every day. It’s only been in the last few years that these forward mergers and reverse triangular mergers can take place with all the technological sophistication of a virtual data room, allowing for all the…
Why There has been a Startup Acquisition Boom Companies have always acquired other companies. Whether the purpose is to eliminate a competitor, strengthen a position in a market, bolster two companies’ core competencies, or give a boost to stock price, there has long been a history of mergers and acquisitions. But it seems that…
Benefits of a Virtual Data Room for Working from Home If 2020 has taught us nothing else, it is that we need to be able to work in a fluid state, flexible and maneuverable. More than a third of the United States has been forced to work from home, with similar numbers all across…
Virtual Data Rooms: An Informational Guide What Are They, How Do You Use Them, and Why Are They Taking the Industry By Storm What is a Virtual Data Room? Let’s back up: What was a physical data room? Let’s start with a basic question: How do businesses share information? First, there was physical communication, where…
Mergers and Acquisitions: What You Need to Know What are Mergers and Acquisitions? Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is the general term for the transaction wherein a company or assets of a company are consolidated into another company or business entity through various types of financial transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, consolidations, tender offers, purchase of assets,…
Capital Calls What are capital calls? A capital call (also known as a drawdown or a capital commitment) is a legal right of an investment firm or an insurance firm to demand a portion of the money promised to it by an investor. When an investor buys into a private equity fund, the firm…