Company was a Pepperell, Massachusetts based online aftermarket parts and accessories retailer for Jeep branded vehicles. Owner owned Company. Employee started as a part time bookkeeper for the Company in 2010 and worked her way up to a key Company…
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- "as is where is"
- actual notice to known creditors
- allocation of preclosing taxes refunds and credits
- alter ego
- ambiguous exclusion
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- asset purchase agreement
- asset seller's liabilities
- asset vs stock deal
- Assignment
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- assumption of contract by incorporation by reference
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- Buyer beware
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- buying distribution business
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- commercially reasonable efforts
- compliance with all applicable laws
- conditions to closing for buyer's benefit
- constructive knowledge
- continuity of enterprise exception
- covenant not to compete
- Covenants
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- damages
- de facto merger exception
- deferred closing
- dental practice sale
- Description of business assets purchased
- diminuation of value
- directors and officers insurance policy
- discharge in bankruptcy
- distressed business acquisitions
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- due diligence
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- earn out
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- economic loss doctrine
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- environment representations and warranties
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- excluded liabilities
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- executory contracts
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- fee based upon buyer debt assumption
- financial representation and warranty
- financing acquisition issues
- financing contingency
- for cause termination
- force majeure
- forum selection clause
- fraud carveout
- fraud in business sale
- fraudulent intent
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- full disclosure rep
- hiring seller's employees
- implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing
- indemnification
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- integration clause
- investment banker/business broker
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- key employees of target
- layoff notice law or Warn Act
- leases
- leases
- letter of intent
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- lost profits
- major shareholders exclusion
- material
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- mere continuation exception
- midco transaction
- minority business participation program
- misleading personal financial statement
- missing attachment to acquisition document
- multi-employer pension plan
- mutual mistake
- negligent misrepresentation
- net working capital adjustment
- no kickback or bribe rep
- no oral modifications of contract
- no pending government investigations or inquiries
- nondisclosure agreement
- nondisclosure provision
- nonsolicitation of employees and customers
- notice provision
- officer or director's fiduciary duty to disclose
- offset or setoff provision
- offset right
- overly complicated language in contract
- owner liability for company breach of financing deal
- personal goodwill
- personal guaranty
- personal guaranty of lease
- piercing veil of acquisition subsidiary
- post asset purchase issues
- post signing asset valuation
- private equity
- products line exception
- promissory note
- punitive damages
- purchase price
- purchase price adjustment
- ratifying unassumed contract by post-closing action
- receipt of buyer equity or security
- receipt of buyer equity or security
- reformation
- reformation of contract
- reliance
- representation and warranty about customers
- representations and warranties
- rescission
- 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
- sharing transaction tax deduction benefits
- specific performance
- stay bonus
- step-down provision
- stock purchase agreement
- strategic acquisition
- strategic acquisition
- subordination
- success fee
- successor liability
- survival of reps and warranties
- 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
- transferee liability for taxes IRC Section 6901
- transitory services contracts
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- unemployment tax rate liability
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- union liabilities
- value added tax or VAT
- waiver of contractual provision
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