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Finance Glossary
Essential terminology for investment banking, private equity, M&A, and corporate finance.
45 terms
A
Accretion/Dilution
↓Add-on Acquisition (Bolt-on)
↓B
Beta
↓Bulge Bracket
↓C
Capital Structure
↓Carry (or Carried Interest)
↓Comparable Companies Analysis (Comps)
↓Confidential Information Memorandum (CIM)
↓Covenant
↓D
DCF (Discounted Cash Flow)
↓Debt/EBITDA
↓Dividend Recapitalization
↓Due Diligence
↓E
EBITDA
↓EBITDA Margin
↓Elite Boutique
↓Enterprise Value
↓Equity Kicker
↓Equity Sponsorship
↓F
Fairness Opinion
↓Football Field Chart
↓Free Cash Flow (FCF)
↓G
General Partner (GP)
↓H
Hurdle Rate
↓I
IRR (Internal Rate of Return)
↓J
J-Curve
↓L
Letter of Intent (LOI)
↓Leveraged Buyout (LBO)
↓Limited Partner (LP)
↓Lock-up Period
↓M
Management Buyout (MBO)
↓Mezzanine Debt
↓MOIC
↓Multiple Expansion
↓P
Pitch Book
↓Platform Company
↓Precedent Transactions
↓Q
Quality of Earnings (QoE)
↓R
Representations & Warranties (Reps & Warranties)
↓Roadshow
↓S
Secondary Buyout (SBO)
↓Synergies
↓T
Terminal Value
↓W
WACC (Weighted Average Cost of Capital)
↓Working Capital
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