business sale
Selling an enterprise
A business sale is a transaction in which a company or its assets change ownership.
The term covers everything from a sole proprietor selling a shop to a multinational acquisition: The business sale closed after six months of negotiations.
It may involve selling the entire entity, just its assets, or a controlling stake in shares.
- buyerOne who acquires things
- fair market valueObjective exchange price
- contract negotiationDiscussing terms before signing
- stock purchaseBuying ownership stakes
- valuationAssessment of monetary worth
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- transferstransfer, money transfer, bank transfer, wire transfer, fund transfer
- wealthriches, wealth, fortune, affluence, prosperity
- dissolutionbreakup, breakdown, liquidation, wind down, disintegration
- liquidationsliquidation, closeout, insolvency, receivership, sell-off
- sales contractspurchase agreement, purchase contract, land contract, buyer agreement, installment agreement
- taxable incomecapital gain, capital gains, dividend, bonus, dividend income
business salebusiness acquisition
Purchasing controlling stake
buyout · corporate takeover · hostile takeover · corporate merger · business merger
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