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Earnout submissions challenged

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The High Court has ruled that earn-out calculations, emailed by the buyer to the sellers in relation to a share sale, were not validly communicated. Earnout calculations and notice provisions - Under an earnout provision...more

Benesch

Earnout Held to Violate NY Fee Splitting Prohibition

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A pivotal decision by a New York Appellate Division court holding that earnouts based on the future revenue of a dental practice violated the NY Fee Splitting Prohibition could substantially impact the structuring of health...more

Shutts & Bowen LLP

Drawn-out negotiations over purchase agreement result in extensive litigation

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A recent case weighed the extent to which a purchaser was able to negotiate terms when exercising a purchase of property under an option in a lease. The litigation began when, after the tenant/buyer exercised its purchase...more

White & Case LLP

Ahead of the pack: US M&A 2019: Key dealmaking decisions from Delaware and New York

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We focus on two H2 2019 rulings that could affect M&A transactions in the future. Genuine Parts: Acceptance of termination fee does not prevent further remedies - In September 2019, the Delaware Chancery Court refused to...more

Burr & Forman

SC body bag noncompete case exhumed, revisited

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Two years ago, we wrote about a noncompete decision in which a special referee found a business seller had breached a sales agreement by violating both a noncompete covenant and an exclusive sales provision contained in the...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

North Carolina Courts Are Forbidden To “Blue Pencil” An Unenforceable Non-Compete

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Reversing a 2-1 decision of the North Carolina Court of Appeals, the state’s Supreme Court held unanimously that an assets purchase-and-sale contract containing an unreasonable territorial non-competition restriction is...more

Buchalter

Warning: Warranties Can Survive Close of Escrow Even When You Think They Won’t

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As the seller of real property, you might have heard: “Don’t worry, that warranty won’t survive the closing.” Or, you may have assumed that because the purchase agreement stated that certain representations and warranties did...more

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