Buying or Selling Businesses
Overview
Whether it’s your first deal or your fiftieth, we know the process is time-consuming and can be overwhelming. Let us work with you to make the complex simple and help you close your deal with confidence and peace of mind.
Our M&A and ownership transition experience ranges from small businesses to mid-market enterprises, with our clients serving local communities and global markets. Our client’s transactions have ranged in size from equity-only strategic transactions to representing large minority owners in $300M+ transactions.
Our clients serve a variety of industries including manufacturing, healthcare, distribution and logistics, professional services, and more. We serve clients around the state of Kansas, and we’re happy to meet with you in-person anywhere in the state or the Kansas City metro.
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Our Approach
Our top priority is to help you close your deal with confidence and peace of mind. Below are a few ways we work to create a great experience for each client.
- Client-Centered: We take time to understand what success means to you so that we can help you create value based on your priorities. As a Kansas firm, we are happy to meet in-person anywhere in the state, or in the Kansas City metro.
- Relationship Focused: Business can get messy, especially when relationships are involved. Whether it’s with family members, co-owners, the other party, or another key relationship, we bring a thoughtful approach to protecting relationships throughout the deal process and beyond.
- Support Great Decisions: Making great decisions is one of the best ways to maximize value on a deal. We provide the time, attention, and education to make the complex simple, and enable you to make high-stakes decisions with confidence. We’ll focus on the details of the process so that you can focus on the decisions and relationships that matter most.
- Team Player: Working with us doesn’t mean you need to replace your existing attorney. We’re happy to work with your current attorney and the rest of the deal team to achieve your objectives.
- Transparent Budget Management: We provide each new client with a scope of work and budget before there is any financial obligation. We provide regular budget updates throughout the deal to put you in control of how your money is spent. The final bill should never be a $urpri$e.
We’ll Help Find the Right Fit: Your deal is too important to work with the wrong team. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll help you find the right one.
Key Services
- Structuring transactions as an asset purchase, stock purchase or merger
- Letters of intent
- Term sheets
- Due diligence review
- Asset purchase agreements
- Stock or equity purchase agreements
- Partnership buy-in agreements
- Partnership buy-out agreements
- Seller financing agreements
- Rollover equity agreements
- Purchaser entity structuring
- Exit planning
- Succession planning
- Family ownership transitions
- Stark and anti-kickback compliance in transactions in the healthcare industry
- Contribution and indemnity agreements among selling owners
- Non-compete and restrictive covenant structuring and analysis
- A range of related services and practice areas
Highlights
- Represented first-time buyer in purchase of manufacturing business; successfully closed by year-end within approx. four weeks.
- Represented first-time seller of family business in mid-market sale to large corporate buyer; successfully managed owner relationship dynamics; transaction closed on time and on budget within approx. one month after receiving first draft of purchase agreement.
- Represented dentist in purchase of practice.
- Represented large minority ownership group in substantial mid-market transaction involving stock sale of medical research business to private equity firm.
- Represented serial entrepreneur in successful purchase of multiple businesses.
- Represented dentist in negotiating favorable terms in complex sale to DSO.
- Represented seller in sale to large corporate buyer; successfully managed complicated related party relationships; transaction closed on time and on budget within approx. two weeks after engagement.
Practice Areas
- Contract Law
- Copyright Law
- Creditor Rights
- E-Commerce Law
- Entrepreneurial Law
- Estate & Trust Administration
- Franchise Law
- International Business Law
- Securities Law
- Trade Secret Law
- Trademark Law
- Transactional Law