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?
If you intend to sell your company or believe there may be another business or individual interested in acquiring you, it is important to prepare your business for sale or acquisition to make sure everything is in order. This...more
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
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
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
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
In this Upside episode, Farella's Greg LeSaint and Erica Villanueva discuss how incorporating representation and warranty insurance into your acquisition from the buy-side or sell-side can have tremendous benefits in dealing...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
Selling your company for a huge profit sounds enticing. What could be wrong with getting a huge up-front payment at capital gain rates in lieu of years of future sweat for an uncertain return and ordinary income treatment?...more
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
• The most common post-sale dispute involves determining the working capital of the sold business. • In planning for the sale, the parties should agree on what is a normal working capital amount, as well as the elements of...more
You’re a business owner and have spent years nurturing and growing your business into a valuable asset, and now you have decided it’s finally time to monetize that asset and sell your business. You go about the process of...more
The sale of a business often takes several months and generates huge amounts of paperwork. The process culminates in a purchase agreement typically exceeding fifty single-spaced pages full of dense wording....more