Seller develops, markets, and sells a variety of over-the-counter and prescription medications. Seller’s Owner owns Seller and is Seller’s CEO, president and secretary. Buyer entered into the asset purchase agreement with Seller. Pursuant to the asset purchase agreement, Buyer paid approximately…
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- membership interest purchase agreement
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- mere continuation exception
- merger
- merger agreement
- midco transaction
- minority business participation program
- misleading personal financial statement
- missing attachment to acquisition document
- multi-employer pension plan
- mutual mistake
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- net working capital adjustment
- no kickback or bribe rep
- no oral modifications of contract
- no pending government investigations or inquiries
- No Undisclosed Liabilities
- nonbinding
- noncompete area
- nondisclosure agreement
- nondisclosure provision
- nonsolicitation of employees and customers
- note payment amount adjustment
- notice
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- officer or director's fiduciary duty to disclose
- offset or setoff provision
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- overly complicated language in contract
- owner liability for company breach of financing deal
- percentage of purchase price
- personal goodwill
- personal guaranty
- personal guaranty of company debt by selling shareholder
- personal guaranty of lease
- piercing veil of acquisition subsidiary
- post asset purchase issues
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- post signing asset valuation
- prior-material-breach doctrine
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- public information exclusion
- punitive damages
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- purchase price
- purchase price adjustment
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- quality of earnings assessment
- ratifying unassumed contract by post-closing action
- receipt of buyer equity or security
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- securing buyer's note
- securing deferred purchase price
- security agreement
- seller owners equity interest in buyer
- seller ownership in buyer
- seller rep of no federal employer liability
- seller's age discrimination claims
- seller's covenants
- seller's federal injunctions
- seller's warranty claims
- severance benefits
- sexual harassment
- shareholder buyout of partner
- shareholder release
- sharing transaction tax deduction benefits
- specific performance
- statute of limitations
- stay bonus
- step-down provision
- stock purchase agreement
- strategic acquisition
- strategic acquisition
- subordination
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- successor liability
- survival of covenants
- survival of reps and warranties
- target's stock options
- tax benefit sharing
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- termination or breakup fee
- third party beneficiary clause
- timely objection to indemnification claim
- tort misrepresentation in M&A
- tortious interference with prospective economic advantage
- trade secret misappropriation
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- transferee liability for taxes IRC Section 6901
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- unjust enrichment
- value added tax or VAT
- waiver of contractual provision
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- Withholding Post-closing payments
- working capital adjustment
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