A legal blog on private funds, startups, and venture capital.
A legal blog on private funds, startups, and venture capital.
This is the fourth in a series of posts discussing the sale of a business from the seller’s perspective. In the first three posts, we provided an introduction to this series and discussed asset versus stock sales, seller financing, and…
This is the third in a series of posts discussing the sale of a business from the seller’s perspective. In the first and second posts, we provided an introduction to this series and discussed the difference between asset and stock…
Introduction It’s time to cash out. You’ve reached retirement age or some other point in your life where you want to sell your business. Or perhaps your business has reached a point where you can’t take it any farther on…
Let’s say you’re buying a business. As a condition to receiving more information, you are required to sign a nondisclosure agreement that contains all of the usual blather. You then start to sift through the mountains of information provided (and…
Previously, I wrote about the need for the purchaser of a business to conduct due diligence on its prospective acquisition target. As I discussed, due diligence on a business can be split into three sections: legal, financial, and operational. This…
