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Course Information
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    On-Demand

  • signal_cellular_alt Difficulty Level

    Intermediate

  • work Practice Area

    Commercial Law

Date & Time
  • event Date

    Tuesday, October 29, 2024

  • schedule Time

    1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT

  • timer Program Length

    90 minutes

Credit Information

  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.

$347.00
CLE
ALL

This CLE course will look at how to take a standard "long-form" stock purchase agreement or asset purchase agreement and curate it to fit smaller ($25 million or less) deals more appropriately. The panel will also include practical tips and tricks for documenting and closing smaller deals efficiently.

Faculty

Ira L. Blank
Founder
The Enterprise Law Group, LLC

In over 30 years, Mr. Blank has served as labor and employment law counsel/litigation counsel to businesses and has held executive level management positions. He worked inside of businesses for 15+ years and acquired substantial decision-making experience and developed and executed business strategy.

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Will S. Chuchawat
Partner, Co-Leader Mergers and Acquisitions
BakerHostetler

Mr. Chuchawat represents PE, VC, public companies and private companies in all industries, including technology, healthcare, consumer, business services, industrials, A&D, life sciences, financial services, telecom and media. He has closed hundreds of deals over the course of his career.

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Description

Deal size and complexity should play a role in the length and substance of the particular M&A agreement. Starting with forms unsuited to the transaction can derail smaller deals or stall negotiations of provisions that have little relevance to the deal.

Part of counsel's role should be to tailor M&A deal documents to address what is truly necessary for the transaction, avoiding the additional costs and potential conflict that can come from negotiating provisions of marginal importance to the parties.

Listen as our authoritative panel discusses how to "right-size" an M&A agreement to fit the deal and offers practical tips on streamlining smaller deals' documentation and closing process.

Outline

  1. Overview of asset purchase, stock purchase, and merger/consolidation structures
  2. Long-form vs. short-form agreements and related documentation
    1. Standard provisions found in all merger agreements
    2. Right-sizing the agreement: deciding what terms are critical and what terms are not
  3. Streamlining the closing process for smaller deals

Benefits

The panel will review these and other key issues:

  • How can drafting counsel address the parties' interests (what they want to get out of the deal) and their tolerance for risk without over-lawyering the agreement?
  • In what ways can counsel make the closing process more manageable and cost-efficient?