Essential Steps to Sell Your Business
Strategies for Business Resilience in Uncertain Times
Best Practices for Preparing Your Company for Exit
What is Reverse Vesting and What are the Tax Considerations?
What Does "Cash Free / Debt Free" Mean?
How is Purchase Price Established?
What's Important to Get Right in the Term Sheet?
Should You Engage a Financial Advisor?
What's the Timeline for a Sale Process?
Selling Your Med Spa Practice – Key Steps To Attract a Buyer and Get the Best Price
Preparing A Company For Sale - A Podcast with Janathan Allen
Building a Healthcare Practice and Preparing to Sell: Getting the Right Advice Can Make a Difference
FCA Implications for M&A Transactions
What You Need To Know About Representation and Warranty Insurance
Growth by Acquisition Important Considerations for Government Contractors, Part 2 of 2
The Exit: Everything You Need to Know but Didn’t Know to Ask about Startup Acquisitions
Selling Your Government Contract Business: Plan Today for a Stronger Tomorrow, Part 1 of 2
Legal Steps For Dentists to Follow When Buying or Selling a Practice
Top 20 Negotiation Tips: #8 and #9
The Grass is Greener: The State of the Cannabis Industry - Where Do We Go from Here?
By statutory law, Colorado has generally prohibited restrictive agreements except for specific exemptions. More recent legislation provides greater clarity and specificity as it relates to restrictions on noncompetition...more
In 2024, Delaware courts issued multiple instructive decisions on earnout provisions in life sciences M&A transactions. ...more
Join Justin Yi and Mark Seneca to learn about the essential elements: Defining the deal structure and purchase price Setting indemnification terms Managing exclusivity periods to maximize your leverage...more
Two recent Delaware Superior Court opinions are essential reading for M&A practitioners drafting language with respect to how disputes related to purchase price adjustments, earnouts, and other accounting-related...more
As a business advisor, understanding the succession process for business owners can significantly benefit your ability to attract and build a business owner practice successfully. Long-term thinking can be complex for some...more
The Private Target Mergers & Acquisitions Deal Points Study (“the Study”) is published on a bi-annual basis by the Market Trends Subcommittee of the ABA Business Law Section’s M&A Committee, which I am happy to serve on. The...more
You've put in your time, raised capital appropriately, surrounded yourself with a top-notch team, built a great product, and demonstrated the right metrics — so, is now a good time to ride into the sunset? Well, in 2023,...more
Selling your veterinary practice can be financially, legally, and emotionally complicated. And, while selling to an associate certainly has its benefits, there are still plenty of complications you need to be prepared for....more
As more states legalize cannabis and the industry experiences ongoing growth, we are witnessing a rising trend of acquisitions and sales within this sector. While buying and selling a business is a complex process for any...more
Market Trends: What You Need to Know - One of the most pronounced practice-related trends in private company merger and acquisition transactions is the near-disappearance of target legal opinions as a closing deliverable. ...more
Market Trends: What You Need to Know - Over the past 15+ years covered by the ABA studies, materiality scrapes have morphed from being a somewhat uncommon provision, seen in about 14% of transactions in 2005, to...more
Welcome to Manufacturing Updates, Pullman & Comley’s new quarterly publication that summarizes important legal developments for manufacturers. Manufacturing Updates brings together insights from attorneys across our many...more
Often in the sale of a physician’s practice, the owner of the selling practice (the “Selling Practice”) may desire to structure the transaction as what some refer to as a “handshake deal” – using minimal documentation and...more
The Delaware Chancery Court issued a recent opinion that provides a warning for parties to contracts: strictly follow the notice instructions set forth in the agreement or otherwise jeopardize contractual rights under the...more
In a much-anticipated decision, on June 27, 2017, the Supreme Court of Delaware reversed the Chancery Court's ruling in Chicago Bridge v. Westinghouse. The Delaware Supreme Court determined that an independent auditor...more
Government contractors, so long as consistent with statute and regulation, should coordinate with the government regarding novation issues to best position themselves for acceptance of proposed novations....more
When negotiating the sale of a business, legal counsel should be aware that the attorney-client privilege protecting communications between the seller and its legal counsel – including negotiations regarding the acquisition –...more
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that non-compete agreements may be transferred to a successor employer through an asset sale and enforced by that successor employer against the employees who previously...more
Nearly every founder or executive considers selling their company at one point or another. Before embarking on the complex process, it is crucial for the company leaders – especially within the ever-evolving tech community –...more