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Bowditch & Dewey

You Just Hit “Send.” Did You Also Form a Valid, Binding Contract?

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In Boulay v. Boulay, the Land Court addressed whether email correspondence may constitute a valid, binding contract in the context of a real estate transaction. In Massachusetts, a specific pitfall of negotiations via email...more

Ward and Smith, P.A.

"But We Were Just Negotiating:" Understanding When A String Of Communications (Even Emails) May Establish a Binding Contract

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Techlaw: Parties negotiating the terms of a deal must understand when the negotiating stops and a binding contract has been created, even if there is only a string of emails....more

Dechert LLP

Global Private Equity Newsletter - Winter/Spring 2018 Edition: Recent Developments in Acquisition Finance - Did you just commit to...

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The question of when parties to a potential transaction actually become bound to each other is obviously an important one, and sometimes the answer can be surprising, or less than entirely clear. A recent Texas Court of...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Meeting of the Minds at the Inbox: Some Pitfalls of Contracting via Email

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We have had a number of clients run into issues relating to whether or not an email exchange constituted a binding contract. This issue comes up regularly when informality creeps into negotiations conducted electronically,...more

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