This guide explains what financial synergy is and why it’s important. Understanding financial synergies is important for understanding mergers & acquisitions (M&A). Financial synergy is what strategic buyers are looking to create in an M&A transaction.

This article aims to explain the difference between two categories of buyers—financial and strategic buyers. Financial and strategic buyers have different objectives for making acquisitions.

This guide is designed to familiarize you with the teaser, which is a document used in M&A (mergers and acquisitions) transactions. To begin with, here are some bullet points to understand the teaser as a document before we cover how it’s used in M&A.

Here are four bullet points designed as a quick summary to help you understand non-disclosure agreements (NDA meaning in M&A). The abbreviation NDA stands for non-disclosure agreement.

Here is a list of important terminology for understanding mergers and acquisitions. This list of terms is designed to help familiarize you with the “language” of M&A.

This post explains what goodwill is in accounting. We look at what goodwill is, how it is calculated, the conditions for amortizing goodwill, and why goodwill arises in M&A deals. Here are some key takeaways about goodwill:

This guide is designed to quickly walk you through the decision to make an asset purchase vs stock purchase. When a business is bought or sold the buyers and sellers have a choice to make. Should they structure the deal as a purchase and sale of assets, or a purchase and sale of common stock.