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Flaster Greenberg PC

FTC Noncompete Ban Could Harm Buyers And Sellers In M&A

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This article originally ran in Law360 on February 10, 2023. All rights reserved.  As federal and state governments consider limiting or prohibiting employee noncompetition agreements or other restrictive covenants, the...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

7 Key Value-Adding LOI Terms

A well-crafted letter of intent (“LOI”) adds value for the negotiating principals by helping to ensure the parties are in agreement on key deal terms before they spend significant time and money on diligence and definitive...more

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Don’t Forget Taxes When Negotiating Non-Competes

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Exception to FTC Proposal Although the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has proposed a ban on non-compete agreements, the proposal contains an exception in certain business acquisitions where the seller enters into a...more

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Court of Chancery Strikes Down Restrictive Covenants Designed to Protect Private Equity Investments Beyond the Target

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Recently, the Delaware Court of Chancery issued a decision regarding restrictive covenant agreements that will likely have an immediate impact on the scope of restrictive covenants in private equity transactions. In the...more

Baker Donelson

Delaware Invalidates a Selling Stockholder's Non-Compete Covenant: What the Kodiak Building Partners, LLC v. Philip D. Adams...

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In drafting restrictive covenants, acquiring companies should be aware that courts may not necessarily uphold, or even "blue pencil" (revise overbroad restrictive covenants), restrictive covenants imposed on sellers in an...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Buyer (and Seller) Beware: The FTC Is and Will Come for Your M&A Non-Competes

Since President Biden’s July 2021 direction to the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) to “curtail the unfair use of non-compete clauses and other clauses or agreements that may unfairly limit worker mobility,” the FTC has...more

Williams Mullen

[Webinar] M&A Webinar Series: Key Considerations for Insurance Brokerage Transactions - April 19th, 11:00 am - 11:15 am EST

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Insurance brokerage deals surged in Q4 2021 and have continued to remain at peak levels throughout Q1 2022. Our team at Williams Mullen handled more than 50 of these transactions in the past two years alone, and, in doing so,...more

Ward and Smith, P.A.

Five Things to Consider When Selling Your CBD Business

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For many business owners, the intended exit strategy is to sell to a competitor or a larger company, thereby taking advantage of the upside on the value they have created through years of diligent and hard work building a...more

Burr & Forman

SC body bag noncompete case exhumed, revisited

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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

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"Navigating the Challenges of Chinese Acquisitions of US Insurers"

Chinese investment in the U.S. insurance industry continued steadily in 2016, notwithstanding efforts by the Chinese government to impose new restrictions on outbound M&A. (See "Regional Focus: Asia.") Examples of such...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

South Carolina Court of Appeals Says 150-Mile Geographic Restriction in Non-Compete is Unreasonable

South Carolina courts evaluate the enforceability of non-compete provisions executed in the employment context and in connection with the sale of the business under the same reasonableness test. To be enforceable in South...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

North Carolina Courts Are Forbidden To “Blue Pencil” An Unenforceable Non-Compete

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Reversing a 2-1 decision of the North Carolina Court of Appeals, the state’s Supreme Court held unanimously that an assets purchase-and-sale contract containing an unreasonable territorial non-competition restriction is...more

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