Beswick and Wine: Buying and Selling Private Companies and Businesses, 8th edition

Mergers & Acquisitions

Beswick and Wine: Buying and Selling Private Companies and Businesses, 8th edition

By Susan Singleton
Bloomsbury Professional (formerly Tottel Publishing) June 2011

Specifications

ISBN-13
9781847666987
Publisher
Bloomsbury Professional (formerly Tottel Publishing)
Publication
June 2011
Format
Paperback + CD-ROM , 500 pages
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

 

The 8th edition of this well established book adopts a practical approach, considering both the vendor’s and seller's perspective and providing the practitioner with a step-by-step guide to all the legal, taxation and commercial issues involved in buying and selling private companies and businesses. It includes check-lists, draft enquiries, letters of disclosure and a specimen completion agenda, together with an accompanying free disk containing all the precedents in the work.

New for this edition:
 

Legislative and case law changes relating to buying and selling businesses; Full implementation details of the new Companies Act in late 2008; Objection to Company Names; Corporate directors and under-age directors; Provisions relating to the directors’ ‘conflicts of interest duties’; Share capital reduction - solvency statement route; Repeal of the restrictions on financial assistance for acquisition of shares in private companies; Changing Articles of Association; Tax law changes and latest rates.

 

Table of Contents

Part I: The Seller’s Perspective

1 An overview of the sale process;

2 Assessment of marketability;

3 Preparing for the slae;

4 Marketing;

5 Negotiating process;

Part II: The Purchaser’s Perspective

6 An overview of the acquisition process;

7 Acquisition strategy;

8 The search process;

9 Negotiation;

10 Due diligence;


Part III: The Acquisition Agreement

11 General principles;

12 Share purchase;

13 Business transfer agreement;

12 Share purchase;

13 Business transfer agreement;


Part IV: Post-completion

14 Announcements and notifications;

15 Implementing changes to the workforce;

16 Stamp duty;

Part V: Special Situations

17 Buy-outs;

18 Buying and selling technology businesses

Part VI: Precedents

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