Business & Corporate
Mergers & Acquisitions
Legal support for buying, selling and combining businesses.
Overview
What this involves
Buying or selling a business involves many moving parts: price, structure, liabilities, employees, contracts and timing. The terms agreed in the first conversations often shape the rest of the deal.
KMC Justice advises owners who are selling, buyers who are acquiring, and investors taking a stake in a business.
How We Assist
How KMC Justice Can Assist
We help with the structure of the transaction, review the target's records, and prepare and negotiate the purchase agreement and related documents. We coordinate with your accountants, lenders and, for deals that cross borders, counsel in the other country. KMC Justice can also act as escrow agent when the parties want a neutral holder for deposits or purchase funds.
Scope
Matters We Handle
- Share and asset purchases
- Letters of intent and term sheets
- Due diligence reviews
- Purchase agreements, disclosure schedules and closing documents
- Management buy-outs and partner buy-outs
- Escrow and post-closing adjustments
FAQs
Frequently asked questions
When should a lawyer get involved in a sale or purchase?
Ideally before a letter of intent is signed, because early terms are hard to change later.
What is due diligence?
It is the buyer's investigation of the business's legal and financial position. We run the process for buyers and prepare sellers for it.
Can KMC Justice hold the deposit?
Yes, where the parties want it. See our escrow service for business purchases.
This page provides general information, not legal advice. Every situation is different. Contact us to discuss yours.
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