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- Description of business assets purchased
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- layoff notice law or Warn Act
- leases
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- misleading personal financial statement
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- net working capital adjustment
- no oral modifications of contract
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- nondisclosure agreement
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- notice provision
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- offset or setoff provision
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- owner liability for company breach of financing deal
- personal goodwill
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- piercing veil of acquisition subsidiary
- post asset purchase issues
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- reformation
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- reliance
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- revenue and profit projections
- sale leaseback
- sale of assets of business
- sale of business to ESOP
- securing buyer's note
- securing deferred purchase price
- security agreement
- seller's age discrimination claims
- seller's federal injunctions
- seller's warranty claims
- shareholder release
- stay bonus
- step-down provision
- stock purchase agreement
- success fee
- successor liability
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- target's stock options
- tax benefit sharing
- Taxation
- third party beneficiary clause
- timely objection to indemnification claim
- tort misrepresentation in M&A
- tortious interference with prospective economic advantage
- trade secret misappropriation
- trade secret misappropriation by former seller employee
- transitory services contracts
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- unemployment tax rate liability
- union fringe benefits
- union liabilities
- waiver of contractual provision
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