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?
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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?
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
In 2024, Delaware courts issued multiple instructive decisions on earnout provisions in life sciences M&A transactions. ...more
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
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
As buyers and sellers engage in negotiations for the sale of a business, often there may be disagreements as to the value and expected growth of that business. One party might currently value the business higher than the...more
Lorsque les vendeurs et les acheteurs d’une entreprise privée sont sur le point de conclure une opération, mais peinent toujours à s’entendre sur le prix d’achat de la société cible, il arrive souvent qu’ils envisagent alors...more
When sellers and buyers of a private business are close to a deal but cannot agree on the purchase price for the target company, they often turn to earnouts. Simply put, earnouts are contractual provisions stipulating that a...more
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
A More Cautious Approach- Compared to the torrid pace of M&A transactions last year, the current year seems rather pedestrian. That is not to say businesses are not being sold; they are....more
What’s the Purchase Price? If you advise me that you are selling your business for $32,000,000 and that $5,000,000 of the $32,000,000 will be paid through an earnout, my response to you is that you are selling your...more