Monthly Archives: December 2018

Seller of business successfully sues buyer for failure to get personal lease guaranty release

Sellers, husband and wife, owned Target, which operated a wine business in Round Rock, Texas (greater Austin area). Target operated out of leased shopping center space. On December 30, 2009, Sellers sold Target to Buyer, effecting the sale through a

Posted in Assignment, leases, personal guaranty of lease

Buyer can sue seller of urgent care centers for lost profits from Target’s alleged material breach of 3rd party payor contracts

Buyer is based in the greater Baltimore area and operates urgent care centers and clinics throughout central Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. In January 2015, Buyer purchased Target from Seller, a physician. Target operated urgent care facilities in Pennsylvania. According

Posted in Buyer beware, due diligence, economic loss doctrine, material contracts, representations and warranties

Israeli pharma buyer’s fraud claim against seller of Mexican pharma company tossed out by court

In 2015, Buyer, an Israeli pharma company purchased Target, a Mexican pharmaceutical company, from Sellers, and the intellectual property used by Target from a Sellers affiliate. The total sale price came to $2.3 Billion. After the closing, Buyer claimed that

Posted in compliance with all applicable laws, extra-contractual fraud, fraud in business sale, indemnification cap, representations and warranties

No fraud in alleged buyer’s financial misrepresentations concerning buyer’s equity received by seller of company

Seller was two related companies, one, a provider of litigation support and e-discovery services and the other, a provider of temporary legal staffing to law firms and corporations. Seller along with Seller Affiliate, a related company providing various litigation support

Posted in due diligence, fraud in business sale, material, receipt of buyer equity or security, receipt of buyer equity or security, reliance

Seller of golf company battles buyer over right to $16.6 million VAT receivables as tax credit

In late 2010, Seller decided to sell Target (a wholly-owned subsidiary engaged in the manufacture and distribution of golf products, including Titleist-brand golf clubs, balls and tees and Footjoy-brand golf shoes) by way of auction. The eventual winning bidder was

Posted in allocation of preclosing taxes refunds and credits, net working capital adjustment, stock purchase agreement, Taxation, value added tax or VAT

Court permits stock buyer of company to sue sellers for pre-closing pension-insurance problems

Target is a manufacturer based in Kentucky with customers worldwide. In July 2016, Buyer purchased Target from Sellers for approximately $87 million. Sellers sold Target to Buyer through a stock purchase agreement dated July 11, 2016. Some Target employees worked

Posted in compliance with all applicable laws, financial representation and warranty, representations and warranties

Seller of business had no obligation to subordinate its purchase money promissory note to buyer’s bank

Target is a business located in Palo Alto, California, which specializes in the electro-plating of metal components for industrial uses. In the spring of 2014, Seller (the sole owner of all shares in Target) was approached by representatives of companies

Posted in implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, promissory note, subordination

Court finds “midco transaction” stock deal in substance an asset deal and permits IRS to recover target corporation’s tax from its shareholders

Sellers, a husband and wife duo, founded in 1985, and formerly owned (along with other shareholders) Target, a television and radio company. Target owned six radio stations, and six tv stations, one tv station in Minnesota and five tv stations

Posted in asset vs stock deal, midco transaction, transferee liability for taxes IRC Section 6901

Buyer of business loses misrepresentation claim against seller because claim was not based upon seller’s breach of contract

Madison, Wisconsin based Target, is a contract manufacturer of custom vitamin and trace mineral premixes and value-added branded feed ingredients for the animal feed market. Seller was Target’s president and Buyer its vice-president. Both shared in Targets’ day-to-day operations, and

Posted in economic loss doctrine, fraud in business sale, negligent misrepresentation, tort misrepresentation in M&A

Delaware court finds stock purchase agreement does not give buyer share of target’s transaction tax deduction benefits

Target is a manufacturer of retail shelving labels, based in Little Rock, Arkansas. Target was owned by Seller (an entity owned by two private equity firms). During the summer of 2012, Seller put Target up for sale.  A private equity

Posted in sharing transaction tax deduction benefits

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