material transaction

  • 1material adverse effect — (MAE) USA This term has a number of meanings. In the context of: • Finance. A term of art used as a threshold to measure the effect of some event. The language may vary slightly, but a typical definition is: a material adverse effect on (a) the… …

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  • 2material adverse change clause — (MAC clause) A clause which aims to give the buyer the right to walk away from the acquisition, before closing, if events occur that are detrimental to the target company. MAC clauses are a common feature of public and private acquisition… …

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  • 3Material adverse change — A material adverse change (also called a MAC) also formulated as a Material adverse event or Material adverse effect (either, a MAE) contingency is a legal provision often found in mergers and acquisitions contracts and venture financing… …

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  • 4material — Important; more or less necessary; having influence or effect; going to the merits; having to do with matter, as distinguished from form. Representation relating to matter which is so substantial and important as to influence party to whom made… …

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  • 5material — Important; more or less necessary; having influence or effect; going to the merits; having to do with matter, as distinguished from form. Representation relating to matter which is so substantial and important as to influence party to whom made… …

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  • 6material concealment — A concealment upon which fraud may be predicated where the fact concealed is such that had it been known to the other party he would not have entered into the contract or engaged in the transaction. 37 Am J2d Fraud § 178. In an application for… …

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  • 7material fraud — A fraud which so influenced the conduct of the injured party in leading him to enter into the transaction that without it he would not have done so. Boulden v Stilwell, 100 Md 543, 60 A 609. See material concealment; material representation …

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  • 8material mistake — A mistake substantially affecting the rights and obligations of the parties to an instrument. 45 Am J1st Reform Inst § 48. A mistake so great that the parties obviously did not act with knowledge of the true facts, since such would have defeated… …

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  • 9material representation — As an element of fraud:–a representation of fact which influences a person to act, as to enter into a contract or transaction which, in the absence of the representation, would not have been a subject of engagement by him. 37 Am J2d Fraud § 178;… …

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  • 10Comparability of Transaction —   The general principle that all purchasers of material who produce similar goods or perform the function should have right of equal access to the sources of production. It was first applied in the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) …

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