M&A Foundations · glossary
The precise boundary of what is being bought: which companies, assets, contracts and people are inside the deal and which stay behind with the seller. Drawing the perimeter is a structuring exercise done before the SPA is drafted — get it wrong and you buy too much or too little. Chapter 4
Explained in Chapter 4, Structuring the Deal and the Group, of M&A Foundations.
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