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Winstead PC

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

DarrowEverett LLP

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

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

Bowditch & Dewey

Top Considerations When Preparing to Sell a Company

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Have you received an offer to buy your company? Congratulations! But there is work ahead. The first step is to understand the specific deal structure, be it an asset sale, equity sale or merger. The owners should also work...more

Tonkon Torp LLP

You’re Not the Boss Anymore

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It’s nice to get paid. Giving up control of your business? Well… that’s a different story. On closing the sale of a business, owners realize a dramatic financial return on their investment. However, few buyers are willing to...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

DarrowEverett LLP

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

Roetzel & Andress

Legal Steps For Dentists to Follow When Buying or Selling a Practice

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What are the legal and business steps to follow when buying or selling a dental practice? What are the important items to address to avoid missteps? Host Ericka Adler, Roetzel Health Law Practice Group leader is joined by...more

Saul Ewing LLP

Top 20 Negotiation Tips: #8 and #9

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In this episode of “The Entrepreneur Advisor,” Steven Malitz continues his Top 20 Countdown of the best negotiation tips for businesses, with tips 8 and 9: “Get the other side to invest time” and “Select the negotiation...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

Goulston & Storrs PC

The Sandbagging Conundrum Explained

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There is perhaps no more consistently vexing problem for transactional attorneys on opposite sides than figuring out a fair contractual resolution for “sandbagging” issues....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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