Blog Archives

Asset Buyer Can’t Recoup its Stale Fraud-Breach Claims Against Earnout

March 10, 2020 Introduction It is not uncommon for a business buyer to find undisclosed problems in the acquired business after the closing; problems that the seller’s owner most certainly knew about. Nevertheless, the buyer often makes a business decision

Posted in earn out, earn outs, recoupment doctrine, statute of limitations Tagged with: ,

Buyer’s Indemnification Claim Notice Tolled 1 Year Contractual but Not 3 Year Statutory Limitations Period

December 11, 2019 Introduction The buyer of a privately held business often has a deadline to make an indemnification claim for the breach of a seller representation and warranty. This survival period in an acquisition agreement often expires sometime from

Posted in extension by contract in Delaware, indemnification, Intellectual Property, statute of limitations, survival of covenants, survival of reps and warranties, tolling Tagged with: ,

Tolling of SPA Survival Period Didn’t Extend Delaware’s Statute of Limitations Period

Introduction It is common in M&A agreements to specify survival periods for making indemnification claims; and to toll the survival period while a timely indemnification claim is pending. However, although a survival period under Delaware law can shorten the applicable

Posted in extension by contract in Delaware, indemnification, statute of limitations, survival of reps and warranties, tolling Tagged with: , ,

Products Liability Indemnification Claim Against Former Owner Timely

Introduction A buyer of the stock of a company that makes products wants and often gets the stock seller to promise to pay for any products liability claims that pop up after the closing that relate to products made before

Posted in indemnification, statute of limitations, survival of covenants Tagged with: , , ,

Recent Comments

Categories