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Navigating the Nuances: M&A Buyouts vs. Growth Equity Transaction

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As global markets continue to adapt to a new normal, a clear understanding of the structural nuances, risk considerations, and strategic objectives inherent in varying transaction structures enables investors to remain agile...more

Holland & Knight LLP

What Representations & Warranties Insurance Can Do for Your M&A Deals in Latin America

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In recent years, the use of representations and warranties insurance (RWI) in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions has experienced dramatic growth worldwide. Consequently, deal participants in Latin America are showing...more

Woodruff Sawyer

M&A Minute: What’s the Minimum Deal Size for RWI?

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Clients and potential clients often ask me, “What is the smallest deal you can work with?” I explain that representations and warranties (R&W) insurance usually doesn’t have to do with the deal size; it has everything to do...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Delaware is a “Pro-Sandbagging” State

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While M&A practitioners have long taken the view that Delaware is a “pro-sandbagging” state, a recent case in the Delaware Court of Chancery has added concrete authority to that position. In Arwood v. AW Site Services (March...more

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Sorting Through the Kettle of Fish: Delaware Supreme Court Enforces Contractual Provisions Limiting Liability to “Deliberate...

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When determining whether to uphold an indemnification provision that carved out an exception for only deliberate fraud, the Delaware Supreme Court recently explained in Express Scripts, Inc. v. Bracket Holding Corp., ___ A.3d...more

Morris James LLP

Chancery Upholds Adequacy of Description of Buyer’s Indemnification Claims but Finds Indemnification Request for Pending...

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Horton v. Organogenesis Inc.,C.A. No. 2018-0537-KSJM (Del. Ch. July 22, 2019). Sellers in merger agreements generally agree to indemnify buyers for certain “Losses” but require the buyers to provide timely notice of...more

Goulston & Storrs PC

Trends in M&A Provisions: Indemnity Caps

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In merger and acquisition (“M&A”) transactions, the definitive purchase agreement (whether asset purchase agreement, stock purchase agreement, or merger agreement) typically contains representations and warranties made by the...more

Whitman Legal Solutions, LLC

The Merger Doctrine and Surviving the Closing

...When reviewing real estate contracts, many people act like an inexperienced musician sight-reading music. They gloss over contract language that doesn’t look specific to their deal. Believing the language to be...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Selling Your Business: Baskets, Deductibles and Caps, Oh My!

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You’re a business owner and have spent years nurturing and growing your business into a valuable asset, and now you have decided it’s finally time to monetize that asset and sell your business. You go about the process of...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

M&A Indemnification Provisions: Are You Drafting Unenforceable Time Limits?

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In an M&A transaction, the convention is for the seller to make representations and warranties to the buyer regarding the target business. When the target business is a private company, the acquisition agreement typically...more

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