Selling Your Med Spa Practice – Key Steps To Attract a Buyer and Get the Best Price
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
Podcast: Buy-Sell Market - Factors to Consider in Transactions of Automotive Dealerships
Jeremy Levy on Recent RWI Challenges and Near-term Outlook
Five Steps a Healthcare Banker Recommends When Acquiring a Medical or Dental Practice
Selling Your Government Contract Business: Plan Today for a Stronger Tomorrow, Part 1 of 2
Schlam Stone & Dolan Partner Jeffrey M. Eilender Discusses Whether Contractual Disclaimers Can Waive Fraud Claim
Opportunities and Optimism: M&A Deal Trends — A Recap Discussion Around ACG Atlanta M&A South Panel
Legal Steps For Dentists to Follow When Buying or Selling a Practice
Top 20 Negotiation Tips: #8 and #9
Quality Of Earnings: Making The Most Of M&A Transactions
How Private Equity Firms Structure Health Care Mergers and Tax Implications
Reps & Warranties Insurance: Sealing The Deal
Strategic Growth Paths of Top Small Business Government Contractors
How to prepare for a merger and acquisition in logistics and transportation
Exit Strategies for GOVCONs with Set Aside Contracts: 2021 Insights and Lessons Learned from Business Owners and Advisors
Mergers and Acquisitions in Healthcare: Getting Your House in Order
Delaware is well known as a favored jurisdiction for mergers and acquisition deals, and for good reason — the jurisdiction’s business-friendly legal environment offers numerous efficiencies and predictability. Attorneys and...more
What is a spurned seller’s recourse when a buyer walks away from a deal in breach of the purchase agreement? In private M&A, the answer is reasonably straightforward: sue the buyer to close the deal or to recover damages. In...more
This column was originally published on RENX.ca. In an episode of The Simpsons in the late ’90s, Marge Simpson takes a job as a real estate agent to make some extra cash. She made her first sale by selling a big, reasonably...more
Who said legal opinions have to be boring? Not Judge Terrence L. Michael of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma, who last week issued a colorful opinion rejecting a home builder’s creative claim...more
Image a home buyer finally finds their dream house. There’s just one problem. During their home inspection, they discover the foundation is cracked. But they buy the house anyway, fully aware of the issues with the...more
A recent case weighed the extent to which a purchaser was able to negotiate terms when exercising a purchase of property under an option in a lease. The litigation began when, after the tenant/buyer exercised its purchase...more
Market Trends: What You Need to Know - As shown in the American Bar Association's Private Target Mergers and Acquisitions Deal Points Studies: In 2021, 10% of the merger and acquisition purchase agreements covered by...more
On March 9, 2022, the Delaware Court of Chancery issued a post-trial decision in Arwood v. AW Site Services, LLC, subsequently amended on March 24, 2022. The plaintiff, John Arwood, had spent decades building a waste...more
It’s not often that a lawsuit in the Commercial Division between sophisticated parties to an arm’s-length business transaction warrants a blistering rebuke of the parties by the Court....more
Williams: Court of Chancery Finds Poison Pill Unenforceable - In February, the Delaware Court of Chancery held that a shareholder rights plan (a "poison pill") adopted by The Williams Companies, Inc. at the onset of the...more
Market Trends: - What You Need to Know As shown in the American Bar Association's Private Target Mergers and Acquisitions Deal Point Studies... Originally Published in Bloomberg Law - April 2021....more
Following a dramatic pause starting last spring, the hotel purchase and sale market has begun to show signs of a rebound. A significant challenge to these sales, however, is the remaining uncertainty around the COVID-19...more
Two years ago, we wrote about a noncompete decision in which a special referee found a business seller had breached a sales agreement by violating both a noncompete covenant and an exclusive sales provision contained in the...more
Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. v. Westinghouse Elec. Co. LLC, et al., No. 573, 2016 (Del. June 28, 2017) - The Delaware Supreme Court reversed the Court of Chancery’s entry of judgment on the pleadings based on a flawed...more
It is common practice for purchase agreements in private company M&A transactions to contain one set of rules to determine and resolve disputes regarding a post-closing purchase price adjustment and a separate, often vastly...more
As the seller of real property, you might have heard: “Don’t worry, that warranty won’t survive the closing.” Or, you may have assumed that because the purchase agreement stated that certain representations and warranties did...more