Deal Breakers
- Topics:
- Deal Structure
- Source:
- CFO Publishing
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Overview: Buyers are giving themselves more outs by expanding material adverse change clauses. Mergers and acquisitions may be coming back in style, but contracts signed in the past 12 months suggest it is very much a buyer's market. Among the common features of M&A contracts is a material adverse change (MAC) clause, which gives the buyer the right to pull out of the deal or renegotiate the terms if there's a major change in buyer or seller fortunes before the deal closes. Read the article to know in depth about this topic.
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Format: HTML | Date: Oct 2003 | Pages: 3
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