IPOs (Initial Public Offering)

Reverse Mergers (Reverse Takeover "RTO")

SPACs (Special Purpose Acquisition Companies)

BDC (Business Development Corp.)

An IPO occurs when a company initially sells a percentage of its shares to the public through an offering process.

Other terms that related to IPOs are:

- Secondary Offering: A sale of securities in which one or more major stockholders in a company sell all or a large portion of their holdings. The proceeds of this sale are paid to the stockholders that sell their shares. Often, the company that issued the shares holds a large percentage of the stocks it issues.

 - Public Offering: A sale of new shares to the public via an underwriting process.

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Resources:
http://www.sec.gov/answers/ipo.htm
 

The acquisition of a public company by a private company, allowing the private company to bypass the usually costly, lengthy and complex process of going public through an initial public offering (IPO) process.

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Resources:
www.revmerger.com

SPACs are investment vehicles that allow retail investors to invest in areas sought by private equity firms. SPACs are shell or blank-check companies that have no operations but that go public with the intention of merging with or acquiring a company with the proceeds of an initial public offering (IPO).

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Resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_purpose_acquisition_company

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