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Acquisition topics, explained.
48 topic guides connect plain-English definitions to lessons, examples, numbers, and original sources. Limited coverage is labeled rather than filled with unsupported detail.
Fundamentals
Finding deals
Understanding the numbers
Deal structure
Financing
- Amortization
- Asset-based lending
- Bank debt
- Buyer equity
- Capital stack
- Collateral
- Committed fund and LP capital
- Covenants
- Debt pricing
- Debt service
- Direct lending
- Government-backed lending Limited source coverage
- Independent sponsor
- Institutional debt
- Investor equity
- Leverage
- Mezzanine and subordinated debt
- Personal guarantees
- Private credit
- Receivables finance
- Refinancing
- Senior debt
- Subordination and creditor rights
Operating and exits
- Bolt-on acquisitions
- IRR and MOIC Limited source coverage
- Management after acquisition
- Returns and exits
- Roll-ups
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