Holding Company

A Holding Company is an entity created for the purpose of owning entities and assets.


Holdback

A Holdback is a portion of the purchase price that a purchaser does not immediately give to the seller upon closing in order to ensure that there are no post-closing issues with any of the representations and warrants of the […]


Hockey Stick Chart

A Hockey Stick Chart is a line chart in which a sharp increase or decrease occurs over a period of time. Hockey Stick refers to the shape of a graph showing a dramatic increase or decrease in revenue.


Hedge Fund

A Hedge Fund is an investment vehicle that pools accredited and institutional investors’ money to invest in aggressive and complex positions that will provide an active return to the investors.


Haircut

A Haircut is either the difference between the purchase price and sale price of an asset, or the market value and collateral value of an asset.


Hurdle Price

The Hurdle Price is the price associated with an incentive unit in an LLC. Incentive unit holders are entitled to distributions only when each non-incentive unit holding member of the company receives distributions per unit in an amount equal to […]


Hostile Takeover

A Hostile Takeover is the takeover of a company without the approval of the board of directors and is usually accomplished by either the purchase of a controlling interest in the company and/or the voting in of a new board […]


Holding Period

A Holding Period is the amount of time that a person or entity owns an asset or security.