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The Letter of Intent in a Business Sale: 7 Seller FAQs

IBG

If a buyer is truly interested and survives our vetting, we execute a non-disclosure agreement that allows them to receive the seller’s CIM and, for the first time, see detailed information about the business. It bridges the temporary gap between a verbal expression of interest and a definitive purchase agreement. He dodged a bullet.

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Anatomy of a Stock Purchase Agreement

The M&A Lawyer

The principal agreement governing such a transaction is typically a Stock Purchase Agreement (SPA), sometimes styled a Securities Purchase Agreement or simply a Purchase Agreement. Although agreements like these do conform to customary standards and structure, variations do exist. Article 1: Definitions.

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Anatomy of an Asset Purchase Agreement

The M&A Lawyer

Among other things, they require a well-crafted Asset Purchase Agreement (APA). These agreements, at their most basic level, provide for the sale of tangible and intangible assets and liabilities of a seller to a buyer in return for cash or some other form of consideration ( i.e. , something of value). I discussed SPAs in a prior post.

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Board of Directors Shareholders' Monthly / Quarterly Report

Francine Way

Significance is typically set differently in each company, however, the usual legal matter to report here can range from a large class action lawsuit, labor dispute, (shareholders) operating agreement revision update, compliance issues, and so on. We are now done with this topic.

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Spot Cyber & IT Challenges Through Improved Due Diligence

M&A Leadership Council

The risks of brand damage, customer churn, and substantial costs have brought this topic to the forefront in many recent M&A Leadership Council workshops. That could result in renegotiating the letter of intent or purchase price in the definitive agreement. Let us go to a positive example, perhaps for integration-related findings.

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Spot Cyber & IT Challenges

M&A Leadership Council

The risks of brand damage, customer churn, and substantial costs have brought this topic to the forefront in many recent M&A Leadership Council workshops. That could result in renegotiating the letter of intent or purchase price in the definitive agreement. Let us go to a positive example, perhaps for integration-related findings.

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Market data vendors are justifying huge price hikes for an array of reasons as consumers face endless cycle of increases, says new whitepaper

The TRADE

A volatile year saw 90% of firms renegotiate their data supply agreements with vendors in 2023 as price rises continued to soar for a multitude of reasons, says a new whitepaper from Substantive Research. This means that firms procuring market data never catch up with what vendors say they should be paying.”