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Balancing the Scales: Purchase Price Adjustments in M&A Transactions

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In the complex world of business transactions, particularly mergers and acquisitions (M&A), purchase price adjustments are a critical concept that help ensure fairness and accuracy in the final transaction price. Purchase...more

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When Silence Is/Isn't Golden in Commercial Real Estate P&S Agreements

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While sellers typically initiate the first drafts of commercial real estate purchase and sale agreements, some larger buyers have the leverage to require use of their own form agreements. Sellers in these situations should be...more

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Indemnity Clauses, Claims & Controversies

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Indemnification is a key component in virtually every M&A deal, serving as a detailed and nuanced contractual risk allocation device between the Buyer and Seller. Though drafted in a two-way fashion, indemnity operates in the...more

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Ensuring Seller Accountability: Post-Closing Options for Buyers

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When it comes to real estate transactions, buyers are protected by the Purchase and Sale Agreement which operates as a contract between the buyer and seller. Purchase and sale agreements typically contain numerous...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Avoiding Buyer’s Remorse in M&A Deals

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Changing market dynamics have led buyers to assess available options to address post-closing target company issues. Amid the buoyant market of 2021 and early 2022, compressed deal timelines and frenzied competition...more

Jones Day

Delaware Court Holds That Delaware "Should Be a Pro-Sandbagging Jurisdiction"

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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

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Who Owns the Attorney-Client Privilege of a Seller After the M&A Deal Closes?

When M&A transactions end in post-closing disputes, the right to assert privilege with respect to communications that the acquired business conducted with its counsel pre-closing can be of critical importance and possibly...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Golden Rule: Compliance Over Consistency in Purchase Price Adjustments

Delaware Court of Chancery holds that specific accounting principles in a merger agreement will govern, even though it may result in a different approach to accounting standards for determining the target’s tangible net worth...more

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Tactics to Avoid Unanticipated Post-Closing Leasing Costs

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Potential buyers and lenders evaluate existing leases of stabilized properties and anticipated lease income of value-add projects in determining which assets to acquire or finance. Rental income, whether existing or...more

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The Sandbagging Conundrum Explained

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There is perhaps no more consistently vexing problem for transactional attorneys on opposite sides than figuring out a fair contractual resolution for “sandbagging” issues....more

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Protecting Privileged Pre-merger Communications Through Contractual Provisions

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In Shareholder Representative Services LLC v. RSI Holdco, LLC, the Delaware Court of Chancery held that the sellers of a target corporation retained the right to assert attorney-client privilege over pre-merger communications...more

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Top Five Costly Mistakes to Avoid in Commercial Loan Closings

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Banks are in the business of making loans. Lenders, underwriters and credit committees do their best to weed out the potentially problematic credits. The approval of a strong credit however is only the beginning. ...more

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