Strictly Business
A legal blog on private funds, startups, and venture capital.
Strictly Business
A legal blog on private funds, startups, and venture capital.
Tag Due Diligence
Legal Considerations for Selling Your Emerging Growth Company Part 5: The Due Diligence Process
The due diligence process will shape the final terms of the deal and whether the sale of your company will indeed happen at all. In this post, we explain what you need to know.
Selling Your Business – Practical Tips for Sellers – Part 5: Due Diligence
This post was jointly written by Jennifer Wilson and Casey W. Riggs. This is the fifth in a series of posts discussing the sale of a business from the seller’s perspective. In the first four posts, we provided an introduction…
Drafting Nondisclosure Agreements in the M&A Context: Consider What Will Happen When the Deal Goes South
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…
Looking to Invest? How to Determine Whether an Investment Is Worth It
This article was originally posted on business.com on May 1, 2012. Investing in a new venture can be exciting. In addition to the potential to make a profit, many people invest in start-ups for the thrill of being involved with…
Due Diligence for Buying a Business 101 – Part 4: Operational Due Diligence
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…