How does a firm commitment underwriting differ from a best-efforts underwriting?

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How does a firm commitment underwriting differ from a best-efforts underwriting?

Firm Commitment Underwriting
A firm commitment has three general meanings in finance, but is most known as an underwriter's agreement to assume all inventory risk and purchase all securities for an initial public offering (IPO) directly from the issuer for sale to the public....
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Financial Markets and Institutions

ISBN: 978-0077861667

6th edition

Authors: Anthony Saunders, Marcia Cornett

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