Ihor Vlasov
Guides
- How to price a business for sale
- How to sell a business
- M&A advisory firms: what they do, what they cost and how to choose one
Glossary terms
- AI Agent
- Asset Purchase
- Bolt-On Acquisition
- Break Fee
- Buy-and-Build
- Card Network
- Carve-Out
- Chargeback
- Completion Accounts
- Data Room
- Decline Rate
- Discounted Cash Flow
- Divestiture
- Down Round
- E-Money
- Earn-Out
- Enterprise Value
- Equity Value
- Escrow
- Foundation Model
- Free Cash Flow
- Goodwill
- Information Memorandum
- Interchange Fee
- Letter of Intent
- Liquidation Preference
- Locked Box
- Material Adverse Change
- Merger
- Non-Disclosure Agreement
- Poison Pill
- Purchase Price Allocation
- Reserve Account
- Secondary Market
- Share Purchase
- Tender Offer
- Term Sheet
- Warranty and Indemnity Insurance
- Weighted Average Cost of Capital
- Working Capital Adjustment
Deals
- Meta Platforms → Scale AI
- OpenAI → Windsurf
- OpenAI → io Products
- Global Payments → Worldpay
- Google → Wiz
- Google → Character.AI
- Microsoft → Inflection AI
- Capital One → Discover Financial
- GTCR → Worldpay (55% stake)
- Nasdaq → Adenza
- Broadcom → VMware
- Intercontinental Exchange → Black Knight
- Microsoft → Activision Blizzard
- Block → Afterpay
- Microsoft → Nuance Communications
- S&P Global → IHS Markit
- Nexi → Nets
- Nvidia → Arm Holdings
- Worldline → Ingenico
- Visa → Plaid
- Charles Schwab → TD Ameritrade
- PayPal → Honey
- London Stock Exchange Group → Refinitiv
- Mastercard → Nets account-to-account business
- Global Payments → TSYS
- FIS → Worldpay
- Fiserv → First Data
- IBM → Red Hat
- Intel → Mobileye
- SoftBank Group → Arm Holdings
- Visa → Visa Europe