M & A Nuggets
M&A Nuggets: Due Diligence – Buyer
Most due diligence in M&A transactions revolves around the buyer seeking information from the seller, rightfully so. It is also…
Read MoreM&A Nugget: Earnouts – Purchase Price Or Not
Most M & A transactions involve an earnout whereby part of the purchase price is paid to the seller after…
Read MoreM&A Nugget: The Best Fit
Most business transitions are accomplished by a sale to a third party. The merger and acquisition is, however, one of…
Read MoreM&A Nugget: Murphy’s Law
Murphy’s Law – an old adage typically restated as “anything that can go wrong will go wrong”. The origin of…
Read MoreM&A Nugget: SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS (Or Every Word Matters)
Sometimes, clients ask their counsel to provide a quick review of a purchase agreement, a summary, or to “just focus…
Read MoreM&A Nugget: As The World Turns
It is no secret that with the combination of a strong economy, many baby-boomers approaching retirement age and the accumulation of cash by buyers, M&A activity has been in a frenzy.
Read MoreM&A Nugget: Manage It
My October 31, 2018 Nugget discussed Transition Service Agreements, or TSAs, by which the seller continues to manage the operations for a temporary period of time after closing because the parties desire to close the transaction prior to the time the buyer is ready to take over.
Read MoreM&A Nuggets: The Drag-Along
In a sale structured as a stock purchase, most acquirors want to purchase one hundred percent of the ownership interests in the seller. That is why, if a seller has any minority owners, it is important to include a drag-along clause in the agreement among the owners of the seller…
Read MoreM&A Nugget: Acquihire
One of the busiest areas of merger activity is in the government contracting sector. A major subsector of merger activity…
Read MoreM&A Nugget: Post-Merger Integration
The success or failure of a merger depends in large part upon planning and implementing the post-merger integration of the…
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