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Managing IP Risk in Acquisitions: Further Considerations

July 15, 2022

By Omeed Tabiei

Acquisitions

79

Last week, I posted about IP risk considerations when buying a business with significant IP considerations. Here is a short continuation of IP related risk considerations when purchasing a business: IP: Data and data rights under agreements with customers, suppliers of target What data does the target store? How does the ...

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Managing IP Risk in Acquisitions

July 10, 2022

By Omeed Tabiei

Acquisitions

70

Anyone who has done a lot of M&A deals has likely experienced not having the projections of the business aligning with the original belief of the company’s potential. Here are some areas where your lawyer can help you make sure your projections align with reality. 1. Make sure you ask all ...

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Stock Purchase or Asset Purchase? Further Considerations

July 1, 2022

By Omeed Tabiei

Acquisitions

65

Optimist Legal is a team of lawyers made up from top international M&A corporate and finance law firms, in-house tech companies, as well as founders with exits ourselves. We’ve handled M&A and finance transactions with a total deal value of over $100bn. Our experience with M&A from the legal side is ...

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Stock Purchase or Asset Purchase?

June 20, 2022

By Omeed Tabiei

Acquisitions

71

Stock Purchase or Asset Purchase? A quick guide to structuring an M&A deal from the legal perspective 1. Stock sale In a stock sale, the seller takes their equity interest and sells it to the buyer. Generally speaking, sellers prefer the stock sale method because the seller may get favorable capital ...

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Legal Due Diligence is Vital

June 10, 2022

By Omeed Tabiei

Acquisitions

74

Legal due diligence is important. The function of due diligence is to evaluate the business you’re acquiring and the risks and pitfalls you’re inheriting by purchasing the business. The extent of legal due diligence conducted could be a game changer especially if issues are caught during the due diligence process and ...

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M&A Spot-check: Employee Retention

June 1, 2022

By Omeed Tabiei

Acquisitions

74

Optimist Legal is a business law firm providing advisory and legal services to successful entrepreneurs at all stages of their businesses, from forming their companies to exiting/selling their businesses and everything in between. I’m making this post because I’m seeing the acquisition of businesses, specifically, “boring businesses” being really popular right ...

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