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The Earnout Equation: Tax Tips for Both Buyers and Sellers

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Earnouts are a form of contingent consideration that the buyer of a business pays to the seller in the period following the acquisition, based on the business achieving various financial metrics related to its performance...more

Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP

Growing Your Closely Held Business Through Acquisition: Making the Winning Bid

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Successful business owners know one tried-and-true method to grow and scale is through acquisition. In today’s competitive and complex marketplace, the competition is fierce for businesses with a proven track record and the...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Proposed Tax Law Amendments and Tax Increases May Impact Private Equity and M&A Deals

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The House Ways and Means Committee recently released legislative proposals as part of the “Build Back Better” reconciliation legislation that the committee is currently developing (the Proposed Legislation). The Proposed...more

Ward and Smith, P.A.

So You've Been Watching (and Cringing at) HBO's "Succession"?

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Let's discuss some less-dramatic exit options for business owners (when they want to step away). You may not run a global media conglomerate, but even closely held business owners (and perhaps especially closely held...more

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Scaling an Even Higher Bar: Texas Law Raises the Stakes for Private Company Shareholders in Pursuing Derivative Claims

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A look back at Business Divorce developments during Texas 2018 reflects a continuing negative trend for private company shareholders who have claims for misconduct against the company’s control group (e.g., majority owners,...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Tennessee Diversifies Its Valuation-Method Portfolio for Closely Held Corporations

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The Tennessee Supreme Court overruled three decades of precedent in Athlon Sports Communications, Inc. v. Duggan, giving trial courts broad discretion in the method used to determine the “fair value” of shares in “dissenters’...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

Thinking of Selling? Start Early, Build Your Team

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As 2018 looks to be a favorable M&A environment, many business owners may come to the conclusion that it is time to sell the family business. While it is true that some businesses sell as a result of an offer that comes “out...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Announcing Must-Have Treatise on Business Divorce Litigation

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There’s little doubt in my mind that “business divorce” has achieved name recognition as a distinct subgenre of commercial litigation whose regular practitioners, by dint of experience dealing in and out of court with the...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"Recent Opinions Highlight Different Appraisal Valuation Methods Employed in Merger Transactions by Delaware Courts"

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There is a general perception that statutory appraisal challenges have been on the rise over the past several years. The Delaware Court of Chancery has issued a number of opinions during that time that use the merger price...more

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Business Litigation Reporter - June 2016

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Goodwin Procter’s Business Litigation Reporter provides timely summaries of key cases and other developments within dedicated Business Litigation sessions and related courts throughout the country – courts within which...more

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