Share sale or business sale? 6: how to deal with business contracts
This Guide explains a bit further some of the problems that come with trying to transfer your business contracts, and gives some guidance on how they need to be dealt with in a business sale as opposed to a share sale.
Share sale or business sale? 5: Getting your ducks in order – How to properly transfer different types of asset in a business sale
How to draft a business sale agreement so that the various different types of assets which the buyer has agreed to buy from the selling company end up being properly transferred
Share sale or business sale? 4: What liabilities is the buyer taking on?
This fourth Guide in my series about the differences between share sales and business sales focusses on some of the things to think about based on what liabilities the buyer might be taking over as part of the sale.
Share sale or business sale? 3: What are you trying to sell?
Differences between share and business sales #3: What are you actually trying to sell (ie what are you selling and how do you transfer it?)
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Share sale or business sale #2: Who or what is selling?
Do you know the differences between a share sale and a business sale? This Guide focusses on some of the things to think about based on who or what is doing the selling.
Selling your business or your company #1: What’s the difference?
When first speaking to company owners who are thinking of selling up, I am often surprised by how many of them have not thought about the many differences between a company sale (ie selling the shares in a company) and a business sale (ie a company selling its business and assets as a going concern). And even when speaking to quite savvy business owners or accountants and other professional advisors I am often surprised at how they have not appreciated some of the differences between these two types of deals.
So, in this series of Guides, I am going to explain lots of ways in which company sales and business sales are different, which you should ideally be aware of if you are a business owner who might ever want to sell (or buy) a business (or a company…).
Ways to deal with fallouts in deadlock companies
Some guidance as to other possible ways and strategies to help you resolve a deadlock, including how you can use the courts to help.
Shareholder fall-out – how a shareholders agreement can help to break through the resulting paralysis
This Guide explains various different ways in which a shareholders agreement might provide to break through any paralysis which could otherwise be caused by a fallout between the owners of a deadlock company.
50:50 companies – how to prevent deadlock paralysis
How having a well-thought-out and well-drafted shareholders agreement can help prevent the potential paralysis caused by a fallout between the owners of a deadlock company.