going public. The process of a company’s selling stock to the investing public for the first time (after filing a registration statement under applicable securities laws), thereby becoming a public corporation. [Cases: Securities Regulation 11.10–11.14. C.J.S. Securities Regulation §§ 8, 35–39, 45, 63.]
going private. The process of changing a public corporation into a close corporation by terminating the corporation’s status with the SEC as a publicly held corporation and by having its outstanding publicly held shares acquired by a single shareholder or a small group. [Cases: Securities Regulation 60.23.]
上市 英语：going public 法语：s’introduire en bourse 德语：Börsengang 意大利语：quotarsi alla Borsa valori S. p. A. 西班牙语：hacer públicas sus acciones
enterprise, n. 1. An organization or venture, esp. for business purposes. governmental enterprise. An enterprise undertaken by a governmental body, such as a parks department that creates a public park. — Also termed government enterprise. 2. Under federal anti-racketeering law, an individual, partnership, corporation, association, union, other legal entity, or group of individuals associated in
buyout, n. The purchase of all or a controlling percentage of the assets or shares of a business. Cf. MERGER(8). — buy out, vb. leveraged buyout. The purchase of a publicly held corporation’s outstanding stock by its management or outside investors, financed mainly with funds borrowed from investment bankers or brokers and usu. secured by
precedence (pres-[schwa]-d[schwa]nts or pr[schwa]-seed-[schwa]nts), n. 1. The order or priority in place or time observed by or for persons of different statuses (such as political dignitaries) on the basis of rank during ceremonial events. 2. Generally, the act or state of going before something else according to some system of priorities. 3. Parliamentary law. The
navigable water. 1. At early common law, any body of water affected by the ebb and flow of the tide. • This test was first adopted in England because most of England’s in-fact navigable waters are influenced by the tide, unlike the large inland rivers that are capable of supporting commerce in the United States.
special-hazard rule. The principle that an employee is covered by workers’ compensation for injuries received while traveling to or from work if the route used contains unique risks or hazards and is not ordinarily used by the public except in dealing with the employer. • This is an exception to the general rule that an
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私有化(公转私) 英语：going private (public-to-private) 法语：retrait d’un marché réglementé 德语：Privatisierung (Aktienrückkauf) 意大利语：uscita dalla Borsa valori (mediante riacquisto delle proprie azioni) 西班牙语：privatización