We know we need to choose good passwords, following all the rules about capitalization and special characters, but how secure does our email really have to be? How easy is it to crack into an email account and what is at risk? The answers may worry and surprise you. Getting access to an email account…
Economic turbulence is part of the natural cycle of business. It falls into a rhythm — things get worse; things get better (though not with any predictable timeline). The government does its part to flatten the extreme highs and lows by doing what it can — adjusting interest rates, increasing the money supply and reducing…
For every merger and acquisition that goes through there are several that fall through. It’s a risk of doing business. In some cases there are clauses built into the deal to keep one side from backing out: clauses that cause a side to pay a large fee if they decide to bail on the M&A…
Is your company undergoing a legal compliance audit? Understanding the documents you need can be the first step in preparing for an audit. Most legal compliance audits evaluate multiple areas of your organization to ensure you’re following the laws and regulations for your business and industry. A legal compliance checklist typically includes areas such as:…
When a business needs money to maintain operations and expand their business, they often need outside sources of capital. But where do they get this capital from, and what is the right way to raise capital? First off, let’s start with the two ways of raising capital: debt or equity. One is borrowing the money…
There are times when a merger seems like the ideal thing to do: you’ve launched a company, you’ve hit great heights, but you’re a crossroads where you’re not sure how exactly to expand–you’ve never been this big before, and you just don’t have the expertise and infrastructure to expand bigger than where you are. Or…
Market Capitalization & Enterprise Value: What’s the Difference? When valuing a company, it’s important to be able to put a number on that valuation with which you can compare it to other companies, to thus make a quick comparison between their relative value. Two ways to measure the market value of a company are market…
What is the Role of an M&A Lawyer? What is an M&A? A merger and acquisition (M&A) is a broad term used to describe the consolidation, amalgamation, and purchasing of one company by another. This can happen through many different mechanisms, such as mergers, acquisitions, consolidations, tender offers, purchase of assets, and management acquisitions. …
Amalgamation 101: The Ins and Outs In the simplest terms, an amalgamation in business is the combination of two companies into one larger single company. In this sense, it has much in common with mergers and acquisitions, though the terms are not necessarily interchangeable in all cases. The basic differences are these: Acquisition: …
Forward Mergers vs. Reverse Triangular Mergers Long before the advent of virtual data rooms, mergers and acquisitions were happening every day. It’s only been in the last few years that these forward mergers and reverse triangular mergers can take place with all the technological sophistication of a virtual data room, allowing for all the…