Options for Business Owners
In my role as a lawyer, I help business owners transition their businesses to new owners so they can move on to the next stage ... Continued
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In my role as a lawyer, I help business owners transition their businesses to new owners so they can move on to the next stage ... Continued
Many years ago I was asked by some former business owners to assist them with a unique problem. They had run a family business for ... Continued
An article at CNN money recently caught my interest. The article is about “Job Interview Ghosting” and you can read it here: https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/17/pf/job-interview-ghosting/index.html . The article is ... Continued
On a recent transaction, a draft purchase agreement I was reviewing contained a “materiality scrape” provision. What’s a “materiality scrape”? In general terms, it’s a ... Continued
If you are selling your business, you have two choices on how to market your business for sale. You can try to sell it yourself ... Continued
Many privately owned businesses have more than one owner. This can be beneficial to a business, but it also poses its own problems. Sometimes one ... Continued
Whether a business is worth $1 million or $100 million, the same principles apply when it comes to business succession. After many years of experience ... Continued
In my last article, I discussed the concept of the earn-out. I mentioned that an earn-out is simply the method by which a purchaser seeks ... Continued
Don Sihota’s popular How to Buy or Sell a Business seminar is returning on Thursday, October 26, 2017. This is your opportunity to learn from ... Continued
Earn-outs are very common these days in transactions where an owner is selling a business. I’m working on a number of transactions right now that ... Continued
One term that you may hear when negotiating the sale of your business – or the purchase of a new business – is “conditions precedent” ... Continued
There are various thresholds for review of acquisitions of control of Canadian businesses by non-Canadian businesses. The review thresholds in the Competition Act and the ... Continued