Private Equity M&A Key Deal Terms in a Changing Market
Rollover Equity, Earnouts, Seller Paper, Reverse Break-Up Fees, Rep and Warranty Insurance

Course Details
- smart_display Format
On-Demand
- signal_cellular_alt Difficulty Level
Intermediate
- work Practice Area
Commercial Law
- event Date
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
- schedule Time
1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT
- timer Program Length
90 minutes
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This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.
This CLE course will guide M&A counsel concerning key private equity M&A transaction deal terms such as rollover equity, earnouts, seller paper, reverse break-up fees, and representation and warranty insurance.
Faculty

Mr. Doyle represents borrowers and lenders and other capital providers in the structuring, negotiation, and documentation of a wide array of financing transactions including acquisition financings, syndicated bank loans, direct lending, debt restructurings, and a host of other commercial investment and lending matters on behalf of financial industry clients, private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, and other public and private businesses. His clients span industries including the banking and financial industry, infrastructure, health care, pharmaceuticals, technology, energy, oil and gas, transportation, education, aerospace, industrials and manufacturing, consumer services, leisure, and retail, and utilize his experience throughout the duration of their corporate life cycles, from formation and initial investments through to mergers, acquisitions, and other transformative events.

Mr. Ehrlich is a National Practice Leader, Private Equity, Family Office and M&A at Brown & Brown Specialty Risk Solutions.

Mr. Levor’s practice focuses on advising private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies on a broad range of transactions, including buyouts, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, carve-outs, minority investments, restructurings, joint ventures and other complex strategic transactions and investments. He has experience counseling clients in a wide variety of industries, with particular emphasis on technology, health care, business services, consumer goods, industrials, hospitality and infrastructure.

Ms. Alperovich provides strategic counsel to private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies on a diverse array of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, minority and growth investments, joint ventures, carve-outs and divestitures, restructurings, SPACs and de-SPACs, and investments in general partners. She also advises on general corporate matters. Ms. Alperovich has extensive experience steering complex transactions in a wide range of industries such as healthcare, business services, financial services, asset management, insurance, consumer products, entertainment, technology, infrastructure and energy.
Description
Our panel of experienced private equity M&A practitioners will discuss recent developments in private equity M&A deal terms, including current market provisions and evolving trends.
Counsel advising buyers and sellers in private equity M&A transactions must be knowledgeable about these developments to advise their clients effectively. Counsel should determine the most suitable and tailored deal terms for the transaction documents for their deals.
Listen as our panel of M&A practitioners reviews the latest trends in M&A deal terms where a private equity firm, as a buyer or a seller, has significant control or leverage over the transaction process. The panel will discuss best practices for negotiating provisions regarding rollover equity, the growth-through-acquisition strategy, earnouts, debt financing and seller paper, reverse break-up fees, and representation and warranty insurance in private equity M&A deals.
Outline
- Current trends in private equity M&A deals
- Best practices for negotiating deal terms: buyer and seller perspectives
- Rollover equity
- Growth-through-acquisition strategies
- Earnouts
- Debt financing and seller paper
- Reverse break-up fees
- Representation and warranty insurance
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- What are the most recent developments and trends for practitioners to consider when doing private equity M&A deals?
- What are the deal terms that buyers and sellers in private equity M&A deals are most frequently negotiating, and what are the buyer-favorable and seller-favorable versions of those deal terms?
- What are some best practices for counsel on both sides of the deal when structuring and negotiating private equity M&A deals?
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