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Purchase Agreement Closely Held Businesses

Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig PLLC

Earnouts, Escrows, And Holdbacks: Alternative Payment Options For Structuring Your Next Business Purchase Deal

In business purchase and sale transactions, the purchase price leads to some of the most contentious push and pull in negotiations. A majority of disagreements arise from each party’s valuation of the target company as well...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Me, Myself, and I: Tax Liabilities and Dealing with One’s Own Business

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“It’s My Business”- The owner of a closely held business will often find it difficult to distinguish the business from their own person. That is certainly true for a sole proprietorship. In many cases, unfortunately, the...more

Smith Anderson

Taxing the Earnout

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Agreements for the sale of privately-held companies often call for part of the purchase price to be paid in the form of an earnout. The earnout provision requires the buyer to pay an additional amount in purchase price after...more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

Financing the Business Buyout – Part II (Investors)

Last month, Part I on this topic discussed the problem facing a Remaining Spouse when the Departing Spouse rejects a buyout offer of a modest down payment and a long installment note: How to raise sufficient cash to avoid a...more

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Delaware Supreme Court: No Duty to Buy Out Minority Shareholders in Closely Held Corporations

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The Delaware Supreme Court recently considered whether the directors of a closely held corporation had a duty under common law fiduciary principles to repurchase a minority shareholder’s shares. The court also considered...more

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