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Driving an Optimal Outcome When Selling a Business

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Selling a business is a rigorous, time-intensive, emotional, and costly process. Business sellers are often navigating this process for the first, and only, time. This guide is designed to help ready sellers with the sale...more

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Seller Considerations When Negotiating a Letter of Intent

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Negotiating and signing a Letter of Intent (LOI) is a key inflection point in the process of selling your business. Buyers and sellers both want the LOI to ensure a base level of understanding on certain key terms such as...more

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Balancing the Scales: Purchase Price Adjustments in M&A Transactions

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In the complex world of business transactions, particularly mergers and acquisitions (M&A), purchase price adjustments are a critical concept that help ensure fairness and accuracy in the final transaction price. Purchase...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

What Does "Cash Free / Debt Free" Mean?

Get up to speed with Ramy Shweiky and Mark Seneca on: Negotiable terms when establishing a purchase price How your purchase price is adjusted at closing Examples of debt-like items...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

What's the Timeline for a Sale Process?

Mark Seneca and Justin Yi outline the timeframe for a typical sale, and the key work streams involved. Learn about: A basic framework from the time that you sign an LOI Key milestones from LOI to closing External...more

PilieroMazza PLLC

[Webinar] Navigating M&A in the Manufacturing Industry: Strategies for Success - October 17th, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm ET

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If you’re a government contractor in the manufacturing industry looking to buy or sell your business, there are specific concerns you should be aware of to protect your interests. This webinar will guide you through legal and...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Earnout Deals Surge in Uncertain Times – What M&A Professionals Need to Know About Earnouts

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The M&A market has witnessed a major increase in the use of earnout deal terms after 2021. The number of deals with earnout provisions jumped from around 20% in 2021 to 33% in 2023....more

Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth

Representation and Warranties Play a Crucial Role in Business Transactions

Representations and warranties play a crucial role in business transactions and are commonly used in merger and acquisition agreements to allocate risk between sellers and buyers. Accurate representations and reliable...more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Selling a business in the current high-deal volume environment

Selling a business in any environment can be challenging when planning is not addressed early in the M&A process. The challenges are heightened in the current environment where buyers are looking at multiple potential deals...more

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How Earnout Provisions Can Supply Great Value for Buyers, Sellers

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Earnout provisions can be an effective tool for addressing the potential disconnect between a seller’s expectations and a buyer’s ability to pay when negotiating a business combination transaction. Earnout provisions, or...more

Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

Buying or Selling a Business that Borrowed a PPP Loan

There is a significant likelihood that M&A transactions in the next year may involve PPP loans. Here are several deal components that should be considered in light of PPP....more

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[Webinar] M&A Webinar Series: Unique Deal Issues - February 11th, 11:00 am ET

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Join Partners Anne Domozick and Forbes Thompson to gain insights on the lessons learned when negotiating deals in special situations, and the solutions you can invoke should you find yourself in the same boat. Anne and Forbes...more

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PE Firms: The Earn-Out Conundrum—Avoiding Post-Purchase Conflicts With Private Company Sellers

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When a private equity (PE) firm buys the controlling interest in a private business, the purchase often includes an earn-out provision which calls for the owner to remain active in the business for some period of time. The...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

You “CAN” Avoid Affiliation in Negotiating an Acquisition

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Conditioned Agreements to Negotiate (CAN) - When acquiring or selling small businesses, government contractors need to be cognizant of the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) “present effect rule.” Under this rule, SBA...more

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[Podcast]: Nuts and Bolts on a Management Buyout (Part 2 of 7)

In this episode of The Proskauer Benefits Brief, partners Michael Album and Josh Miller return to discuss the nuts and bolts on a management buyout. As part of their discussion they highlight the different types of...more

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Put Down That Hammer: Four Times When a DIY Approach Is Guaranteed To Backfire

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As a founder, you need to be scrappy, take care of that bottom-line. We get that, we’re all for a DIY approach when it makes sense (psst we even help you do that through our very free document generator). ...more

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