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Good Example Why Fraud Should be Excluded from M&A Indemnification Cap

Court Permits Claim Against Seller of Target for Fraudulent Concealment M&A Stories July 28, 2021 Introduction It is common in an acquisition agreement to cap the seller’s obligation to indemnify the buyer for a seller breach of its acquisition agreement

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Delaware Court Permits Business Buyer’s APA Breach and Fraud Claims Against Seller

April 24, 2020 Introduction Buying a business is risky. And buyers all too often find out after the closing that the business was not as represented in the data room, meetings, emails, messages, phone calls, or in seller’s acquisition agreement

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Seller Argues That Indemnification Cap Applies to Excluded Liabilities

Introduction An advantage of an asset sale is that a buyer can pick and choose which seller liabilities the buyer wants to be responsible for under the asset purchase agreement; often referred to as the assumed liabilities. However, the buyer

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Business Buyer and Seller Battle over Indemnification Cap Language

Introduction Over the years sellers of businesses have often been able to limit their risk of post-closing indemnification claims from the buyer using indemnification caps, deductibles and threshold provisions in purchase agreements. It is quite common for a buyer to

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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

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