Corporate Finance

Definition: Corporate Finance is an umbrella term indicating the area of finance dealing with the acquisition, structuring and allocatation of the necessary capital of companies and corporations. It is the area of finance dealing with monetary decisions that business enterprises make and the tools and analysis used to make these decisions.

In investment banking it refers to the role of an investment bank to evaluate a company's financial needs and raise the appropriate type of capital that best fits those needs in order to create, develop, grow or acquire businesses.

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