1. Debt comprises convertible notes as detailed in notes 20.

2. Debt comprises total bank borrowings and convertible notes.

3. Convertible notes let startups beat such deadlocks by rewarding investors willing to move first with lower (effective) valuations. Which they deserve because they're taking more risk.

4. "Convertible notes mean investors can no longer drag their heels, " says Graham.

5. One useful tool: convertible notes that turn into equity upon a startup's next valuation.

6. The reason convertible notes allow more flexibility in price is that valuation caps aren't actual valuations, and notes are cheap and easy to do.

7. Is SDTH trying to buyback some of the convertible notes at a discount now?

8. You may not need to use convertible notes to do it.

9. AA.N) said on Monday it will slash its dividend, issue stock and convertible notes worth about $1.1 billion and trim its 2010 spending to help weather the steep downturn in aluminum demand.

10. Alcoa plans to issue 150 million shares in common stock, which would yield $850 million based on Friday's closing price, and other $250 million in convertible notes due in 2014.

11. You need to understand all these terms and also the difference between convertible notes and equity.

12. And it was hurt when Lehman Brothers went bankrupt in 2008; Evergreen lost one-seventh of its outstanding shares in a complex transaction involving convertible notes.

13. Evergreen lost one-seventh of its outstanding shares in a complex transaction involving convertible notes.

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14. Whereas if investors seem hot, you can not only close the round faster, but now that convertible notes are becoming the norm, actually raise the price to reflect demand.

15. Chinalco was to have paid $12.3bn for stakes in Rio's iron ore, copper and aluminium assets and $7.2bn for convertible notes that would double its equity stake in Rio to 18%.

16. Under the terms of the acquisition, announced yesterday, the UK company would pay AIG $25bn in cash, $5.5bn in stock, $3bn in mandatory convertible notes and $2bn in preferred stock.