A practical seller-side guide to acquisition financing, commitment papers, financing outs, lien packages, and diligence questions that affect whether a signed deal is actually likely to close.
A practical M&A diligence guide for businesses with software, media, documentation, or content assets, focused on copyright ownership, contractor gaps, recordation, licenses, and termination rights.
A founder-side guide to contract consent issues across deal structures, helping entrepreneurs spot assignment and change-of-control clauses before a sale process is boxed in by avoidable surprises.
A founder-focused guide to brand diligence in acquisitions, with a practical checklist for registrations, common-law marks, domain names, chain of title, licensing, and brand-expansion barriers.
Disclosure schedules usually fail for operational reasons, not legal theory. This guide shows how to assign owners, set deadlines, and keep the schedules aligned with the data room.
For buyers, disclosure schedules are not an appendix to skim. They are where price, indemnity, and closing conditions quietly move. This checklist focuses on what to push on before signing.
A data room is not just a folder of files. It is a control system. This guide covers the access rules, AI restrictions, clean-team protocols, and escalation paths that keep diligence from creating new risk.
An acquisition NDA involving a public-company target can quietly shape bidding strategy long before a definitive deal exists. This article focuses on standstills, securities-law reminders, and use restrictions that matter.
Founders often know a C-corp may be coming but wait too long to convert. This guide covers timing, election mechanics, and the cleanup work that should happen before a priced round.
Liquidity can be attractive and still be tax-dangerous. This guide explains why premium pricing, company repurchases, and partial buybacks can change treatment for sellers and create withholding issues for the company.