For the owners of many privately held businesses, succession planning can be a conundrum. While many business owners would like their children or management employees to eventually own and [...]
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The loss of a key employee can be devastating to a business under any circumstances, but the negative effects can be compounded if that employee takes a position with a competitor or decides to [...]
Persons looking to buy or sell businesses or real estate are often stymied by suspected environmental liabilities, but overlook environmental insurance as a possible solution. A product that has [...]
For the first time ever, a Delaware court has found that a target company has experienced a “material adverse effect” sufficient to allow the purchaser to terminate the purchase agreement. On [...]
Over the past few years, we have seen representation and warranty insurance (RWI) gain a larger foothold in middle and lower-middle market M&A transactions. With more insurers entering the [...]
The attorney-client privilege protects from discovery or other disclosure confidential communications between an attorney and a client for the purposes of obtaining or providing legal assistance. [...]
Metz Lewis M&A team led by George Thomas and including Tim Kravetz, Allyson Matvey, and Nick Holland represented long-time client SCIO Health Analytics in connection with its merger with EXL.
Buyers expect target companies to have a “normal” level of net working capital (Receivables + Inventory + Prepaids – Payables) upon closing a business acquisition. Many times, we find privately [...]
Dentists who own and operate private practices are responsible not only for performing clinical services, but oftentimes also for numerous administrative tasks including managing human resources, [...]
In structuring acquisitions, both buyers and sellers can become complacent in situations where the target company does not own, but only leases, real estate. For potential buyers, it is [...]
