Glossary
- 3rd F
- Advisor
- BA
- Balance Sheet
- BAN
- Barrier to Entry
- BP
- Business Angel
- Business Angel Network
- Business Plan
- Business Thumbnail
- Carbon Reduction Commitment
- Cash Flow Forecast
- Coach
- Conditions Precedent
- Copyright
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- CRC
- CSR
- Data Protection Act
- DD
- Director
- Disclosure Letter
- DPA
- Due Diligence
- Early-stage
- EIS
- Enterprise Investment Scheme
- Entrepreneur
- Equity
- Executive Summary
- Exit Multiple
- Expansion
- Family, Friends and Fools
- FFF
- Founder
- Gross Value Add
- GVA
- High Net Worth
- HM Revenue and Customs
- HMRC
- HNW
- IM
- Incubator
- Information Memorandum
- Intellectual Property
- Internal Rate of Return
- Investor
- Investor Ready
- IP
- IR
- IRR
- Loan
- Long Term Incentive Plan
- LTIP
- Management Buy In
- Management Buy Out
- MBI
- MBO
- Memorandum of Association
- Mentor
- MoA
- Money laundering
- National Minimum Wage
- NED
- Neo Linguistic Programming
- NLP
- NMW
- Nomad
- Nominated Adviser
- Non-Executive Director
- Offer Letter
- Patent
- Payment in Lieu of Notice
- PILON
- Positive Ratchet Clause
- Pre-start
- Preference Shares
- Principles
- Profit and Loss
- Ratchet
- Risk Premium
- Sales of Goods Act
- Shadow Director
- Shareholder Agreement
- Shares
- Small or Medium Enterprise
- SME
- SME
- SoGA
- Sophisticated Investor
- Start-up
- Sweat Equity
- Total Shareholder Return
- Trade secret
- Trademark
- TSR
- Unique Perceived Benefit
- Unique Selling Proposition
- UPB
- USP
- Warranty
- White Meeting
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is a legal document describing a bilateral or multilateral agreement between parties. It expresses a convergence of will between the parties, indicating an intended common line of action and may not imply a legal commitment. It is a more formal alternative to a gentlemen's agreement, but in some cases, depending on the exact wording, lacks the binding power of a contract. However, care should be taken with respect to the title or heading of a document.
Note that, depending upon wording, a document intended as an MoU could, in fact, be a legally binding contract. It is recommended that legal advice is taken to make sure the contract is not binding.
