Investment Banking

Acquisition

Any-and-All Bid

Asset-Based Lending (ABL)

At-the-Market Offering (ATM)

Best Efforts

Best Efforts All or None

Best Efforts Mini-Maxi

Best-Efforts Underwriting

BlackRock

Bond Issuance

Book Building

Book Runner

Bought Deal

Bridge Financing

Bulge Bracket

Business Banking

Capital Call

Carried Interest

Combined Offerings

Convertible Note

Creeping Tender Offer

Deal Toy

Debt Offering

Down Round

Equity Capital Markets (ECM)

Equity Kicker

Equity Research

Financing

Firm Commitment

Follow-On Offering

Goldman Sachs

Green Shoe Clause

Greenshoe Option

Hostile Takeover

Indication of Interest

Initial Public Offering

International Offering

Investment Bank (IB)

Investment Banking

Investment Company

Investment Consultant

IPO (Initial Public Offering)

IPO and Secondary Offerings

IPO Pricing

IPO Process

IPO Roadshow

Joint Venture

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Lead Underwriter

Lease Financing

Lehman Brothers

Lending Decision

Leveraged Buyout

Limited Partner (LP)

Liquidation Preference

Lock-Up Agreement

Management Buyout (MBO)

Merger & Acquisition (M&A)

Mergers and Acquisitions

Municipal Underwriting

New Issue

Offering Memorandum

A legal document outlining the objectives, risks, and terms of a private investment offering.

Offshore Offering

Over-Allotment

Overallotment

Overallotment Option

Penalty Bid

Portfolio Manager (PM)

Preregistration (Pre-filing) Period

Private Equity (PE)

Private Equity Fund

Private Funds

Qualified Bidder List

Red Herring

Rights Issues

Rights Offering

Secured Lending

Selling Group

Stabilizing Bid

Standby Underwriting Agreement

Tombstone Advertisement

UBS

Underwriter

Underwriter Obligations

Underwriting

Underwriting Agreement

Underwriting Spread

Underwriting Syndicate

Venture Capital (VC)

Venture Capital Fund (VC)

Vulture Capitalist

Vulture Funds

Vulture Investing

Western Account

White Knight