Absorbed

Allotment

Angel Investor

Back Door Listing

Back Stop

Best Efforts

Blitzkrieg Tender Offer

Blue Sky Laws

Book Building

Book Runner

Booster Shot

Bootstrap

Bought Deal

Brought Over The Wall

Bulge Bracket

Burn Rate

Carve-out

Competitive Bid

Concession

Contingent Guarantee

Deal Flow

Depository Trust Company Tracking

Direct Public Offering

Down Round

Drip Feed

Drive-By Deal

Dry Powder

Due Diligence Meeting

Earnout

Exit Strategy

Fabless Company

Firm Commitment

Flotation

Flotation Cost

Follow-On Offering

Friendly Hands

Friends and Family Shares

Fully Subscribed

Greensheet

Grey Market

Hot Issue

Indication of Interest

Initial Public Offering

Investment Bank

Investment Banker

IPO Lock-up

Joint Venture

Jointly and Severally

Laddering

Layoff

Lehman Formula

Liquidity Path

Lock-Up Agreement

Maturity by Maturity Bidding

New Issue

Offering Circular

Overallotment

Oversubscribed

Penalty Bid

Piggy Back Registration

Placement

Private Equity

Private Placement

Public Company

Public Offering Price

Quid Pro Quo

Quiet Filing

Quiet Period

Reallowance

Red Herring

Registration

Reverse Takeover

Rights Offering

Rule 144

Rule 144A

Shelf Offering

Shelf Registration

Soft Metrics

Spinning

Standby Underwriting

Subscription Agreement

Subsequent Offering

Syndicate

Tag-Along Rights

Takedown

Term Sheet

Tracking Stock

Traunch

Undersubscribed

Underwriter

Underwriting

Underwriting Spread

Undivided Account

Venture Capital

Venture Capitalist

Vulture Capitalist

Waiting Period

Western Account