The Glossary of Private Equity and Venture Capital
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- A -
- Accredited Investor
- Accrued Interest
- Acquisition
- ACRS
- Adjustment Condition
- ADR
- Advisory Board
- Allocation
- Alternative Assets
- Amortization
- AMT
- Angel Financing
- Angel Groups
- Angel Investor
- Antidilution provisions
- Archangel
- Asset-backed loan
- Automatic conversion
- Average IRR
- B -
- Balance Sheet
- Bankruptcy
- Barbell Strategy
- BATNA (best alternative to a negotiated agreement)
- Bear Hug
- Benchmarking
- Best Efforts
- Blue Sky Laws
- Book Value
- Bootstrapping
- Bridge Financing
- Broad-Based Weighted Average Ratchet
- Brokers
- Burn Out / Cram Down
- Burn Rate
- Business Development Company (BDC)
- Business Plan
- C -
- CAGR
- Call Option
- Capital (or Assets) Under Management
- Capital Call
- Capital Gains
- Capitalization Table
- Capitalize
- Captive funds
- Carried Interest
- Cash Position
- Catch-up
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 7
- Chinese wall
- Clawback
- Closed-end Fund
- Closing
- Co-investment
- Co-Sale Provisions or Rights
- Collar Agreement
- Committed Capital
- Committed Funds or Raised Funds
- Common Stock
- Company buy-back
- Consolidation
- Conventional Convertible Preferred Stock
- Conversion Ratio
- Conversion Rights
- Convertible Security
- Corporate Charter
- Corporate Venturing
- Corporation
- Covenant
- Cumulative Dividends
- Cumulative Preferred Stock
- Cumulative Voting Rights
- D -
- Deal Flow
- Deal Structure
- Deficiency Letter
- Demand Rights
- Depreciation
- Dilution
- Dilution Protection
- Director
- Disbursement
- Disclosure Document
- Distressed debt
- Distribution
- Diversification
- Dividend
- Dodd-Frank
- Down Round
- Drag-Along Rights
- Due Diligence
- E -
- Early Stage
- EBITDA
- Economies of Scale
- Elevator Pitch
- Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP)
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan
- Equity
- Equity Carve-out
- Equity Kicker
- ERISA
- ERISA Significant Participation Test
- Evergreen Promise
- Exercise price
- Exit Strategy
- Exiting climates
- Exits (AKA divestments or realizations)
- F -
- Factoring
- Final Regulation
- Finder
- First Close
- First Refusal Rights
- Flipping
- Flotation
- Follow-on funding
- Forced Buyback
- Form 10-K
- Form 10-KSB
- Form S-1
- Form S-2
- Form SB-2
- Founder Vesting
- Founders' Shares
- Free cash flow
- Full Ratchet Antidilution
- Fully Diluted Earnings Per Share
- Fully Diluted Outstanding Shares
- Fund age
- Fund Focus
- Fund of funds
- Fund Size
- G -
- GAAP
- Gatekeeper
- GDR's
- General Partner (GP)
- General partner clawback
- General Partner Contribution
- Golden Handcuffs
- Golden Parachute
- H -
- I -
- Incubator
- Information Rights
- Initial Public Offering (IPO)
- Institutional Investors
- Intellectual property
- Investment Bankers
- Investment Company Act of 1940
- Investment Letter
- IRA Rollover
- IRR
- ISO
- Issue Price
- Issued Shares
- Issuer
- J -
- K -
- L -
- Later Stage
- Lead Investor
- Lemon
- Leveraged Buyout (LBO)
- Lifestyle firms
- Limited Partner (LP)
- Limited partner clawback
- Limited Partnerships
- Liquidation
- Liquidation Preference
- Liquidity Event
- LLC - Limited liability company
- Lock-up Period
- Lower quartile
- M -
- Management buy-out (MBO)
- Management Fee
- Management Team
- Mandatory Redemption
- Market Capitalization
- Market Standoff Agreement
- Merchant banking
- Merger
- Mezzanine Financing
- Middle-Market Firms
- Mutual Fund
- N -
- Narrow-based weighted average ratchet
- NASD
- NASDAQ
- NDA (Non-disclosure agreement)
- Net Asset Value (NAV)
- Net Financing Cost
- Net income
- Net IRR
- Net Present Value
- Net present value (NPV)
- New Issue
- Newco
- No Shop, No Solicitation Clauses
- No-fault divorce
- Non-Compete Clause
- Nonaccredited
- NYSE
- O -
- Open-end Fund
- Option Pool
- Original Issue Discount
- OTC
- Outstanding Stock
- Oversubscription
- Oversubscription Privilege
- P -
- Paid-in Capital
- Pari Passu
- Participating Preferred Stock
- Participation
- Partnership
- Partnership agreement
- Pay-to-Play
- Penny Stocks
- Piggyback Registration
- PIK Debt Securities
- PIV
- Placement Agent
- Plain English Handbook
- Plum
- Poison Pill
- Pooled IRR
- Portfolio Companies
- Post-Money Valuation
- Pre-Money Valuation
- Preemptive Right
- Preference shares
- Preferred Dividend
- Preferred return (AKA Hurdle Rate)
- Preferred Stock
- Private Equity
- Private investment in public equities (PIPES)
- Private Placement
- Private Placement Memorandum
- Private Securities
- Prospectus
- Put option
- Q -
- R -
- Ratchet
- Recapitalization
- Reconfirmation
- Red Herring
- Redeemable Preferred Stock
- Redemption
- Registration
- Registration Rights
- Regulation A
- Regulation C
- Regulation D
- Regulation D Offering
- Regulation S
- Regulation S-B
- Regulation S-K
- Regulation S-X
- Reorganization or Corporate Reorganization
- Restricted Securities
- Restricted Shares
- Reverse Stock Split
- Revlon Duties
- Right of First Refusal
- Rights Offering
- Risk
- Rule 144
- Rule 144A
- Rule 147
- Rule 501
- Rule 504
- Rule 505
- Rule 506
- S -
- S Corporation
- SBIC
- SBIR
- Secondary funds
- Secondary Market
- Secondary Sale
- Securities Act of 1933
- Securities Act of 1934
- Securities and Exchange Commission
- Seed Money
- Seed Stage Financing
- Senior Securities
- Series A Preferred Stock
- Shell Corporation
- Small Business Administration (SBA)
- Small Business Innovation Development Act of 1982
- Special purpose vehicle
- Spin out
- Staggered Board
- Statutory Voting
- Stock Options
- Strategic Investors
- Subordinated Debt
- Subscription Agreement
- Sweat Equity
- Syndicate
- Syndication
- T -
- Tag-Along Rights / Rights of Co-Sale
- Takedown Schedule
- Target Multiples
- Tax-free reorganizations
- Tender offer
- Term Sheet
- Time Value of Money
- Trade sale
- Tranche
- Treasury Stock
- U -
- V -
- Venture Capital Financing
- Venture Capitalist
- Vesting schedules
- Vintage Year
- Voluntary Redemption
- Voting Right
- W -
- Warrant
- Wash-Out Round
- Weighted Average Antidilution
- Williams Act of 1968
- Workout
- Write-off
- Write-up/Write-down