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What does MAC stand for?

Material Adverse Change


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Samples in periodicals archive:
Most corporate finance agreements contain material adverse change or MAC clauses, as they are commonly known.
For its part, Bank of America concluded that there were serious risks to declaring a material adverse change, and that proceeding with the transaction, with governmental support, was the better course," he said.
For its part, Bank of America concluded that there was serious risk to declaring a material adverse change and that proceeding with the transaction with governmental support was the better course.
The SPA is being terminated because two conditions precedent to the SPA have not been fulfilled by the long stop date of December 31 2008 and because of the material adverse change referred to in the Corporation's press release of December 8 2008.
They are reading the fine print to see if they can find a reasonable or justifiable way out--a loophole that they can make a gap big enough to drive material adverse change provisions," said Greif.
In a statement, Harman International said, "KKR and Goldman Sachs have informed Harman that they believe that a material adverse change in Harman's business has occurred, that Harman has breached the merger agreement and that they are not obligated to complete the merger.
If a material adverse change occurs, the purchaser has the right to lower the offer or, in some cases, walk away from the transaction.
It has been suggested that the consortium may even try to renegotiate the purchase price, citing a material adverse change in its buyout agreement.

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