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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

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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

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Buyer of business not barred from pre-closing products liability indemnification because 2-year survival provision applied only to rep & warranty breach

Buyer (based 15 miles east of South Bend, Indiana) provides restraint systems for applications, including child seats, school buses, trucks, recreational and construction vehicles, and agricultural equipment. Target (based out of Oklahoma City) manufactures and supplies seat belts and seat

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