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Legal Considerations for Selling Your Emerging Growth Company Part 6: Negotiating the Definitive Agreement

January 19, 2017 by Alexander J. Davie

person signing definitive agreementWe are almost at the end of our 7-part series on selling an emerging growth company, and we have reached the stage of drafting and negotiating the definitive agreement. When we talk about the “definitive agreement” in the context of a sale of an emerging growth company, this usually refers to an asset purchase or stock purchase agreement as part of an acquisition, but when there is a true merger of the acquirer and target, the definitive agreement will be the merger agreement. The actual drafting and negotiating done by your attorney and your acquirer’s attorneys may not be all that exciting, but, for you, the owner of the target (which I’ll refer to in this post as the seller), this means you are hopefully well on your way to a successful closing. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Mergers & Acquisitions, Startups and Venture Capital Tagged With: Asset Purchase Agreement, Indemnification, M&A, Purchase Agreement, Representations and Warranties, Stock Purchase Agreement

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