Pro-rata is a Latin term that means “in proportion”. In the context of salaries, a pro-rata salary means pay in proportion to the time employees work, although it can mean share dividends etc. This is ...

In startup financing, certain investor rights show up so often that they feel like part of the background. One of the most ...

Pro rata rights or proportional rights let existing investors keep their ownership stake by investing more when a company raises funding. Pro rata rights, sometimes called proportional rights, are ...

Note: This article is part of Morningstar's 2018 Guide to IRAs special report. A version of this article appeared on Oct. 10, 2016. At first blush, the term "pro rata" sounds like the worst type of ...

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Whenever pro-rata rights are involved, you can always smell some drama. When a company raises a financing round, new and old investors often battle it out for the largest stake they can get. While ...

Lee Edwards, partner at Root VC, has a saying at his firm that “pro rata rights are earned, not given.” That may be a bit of a stretch since pro rata refers to a term that VCs put in their term sheets ...