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Bought Deals, Placements, and Accounts

Bought deal, placed deal, placing, and eastern account terms used in underwriting methods.

Bought Deals, Placements, and Accounts covers public offerings, IPOs, underwriting, private placements, rights issues, subscriptions, allocation, project finance, and other channels for raising capital.

Use these pages when an issuer raises debt, equity, or hybrid capital and the term affects disclosure, pricing, allocation, investor access, intermediary risk, or dilution. It sits inside Underwriting Commitments and Offering Methods, so readers can move up when the broader company-finance context matters.

Use the table below to choose the narrower corporate-finance branch before applying a term to a model, board memo, financing analysis, transaction review, or risk assessment. Move into the term page when the evidence source, calculation, agreement, filing, account, or governance right matters.

What This Branch Covers

AreaUse it for
Bought DealA bought deal is an underwriting commitment where banks buy securities from an issuer before reselling them to investors.
Eastern AccountIn finance, an Eastern Account is an underwriting agreement wherein all participating underwriters share collective responsibility for the total issuance.
Placed DealA placed deal is a securities offering sold directly to selected investors rather than broadly marketed to the public.
PlacingThe sale of shares by a company to a selected group of individuals or institutions, often used for raising additional capital.

What to Check

  • Issuer, security type, offering method, investor eligibility, and market venue.
  • Prospectus, offering circular, subscription agreement, underwriting agreement, term sheet, or filing.
  • Pricing, allocation, lockup, dilution, proceeds, fees, backstop, and settlement timing.
  • Regulatory status, jurisdiction, exemption, underwriter role, and distribution mechanics.
  • Effect on capital access, ownership, leverage, liquidity, and disclosure risk.

Common Mistakes

  • Treating a fundraising announcement as completed financing.
  • Ignoring offering exemptions, investor eligibility, lockups, and settlement conditions.
  • Confusing primary issuance, secondary sale, underwriting commitment, and placement agency roles.
  • Discussing IPO or offering terms without checking the prospectus or offering document.

Issuance content is educational and does not provide securities-offering, legal, tax, underwriting, or investment advice.

In this section

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Bought Deal

A bought deal is an underwriting commitment where banks buy securities from an issuer before reselling them to investors.

Eastern Account

In finance, an Eastern Account is an underwriting agreement wherein all participating underwriters share collective responsibility for the total issuance.

Placed Deal

A placed deal is a securities offering sold directly to selected investors rather than broadly marketed to the public.

Placing

The sale of shares by a company to a selected group of individuals or institutions, often used for raising additional capital.

Revised on Sunday, June 21, 2026