Acquisitions: Two Day Course
Duration
This is a two day training course, qualifying for 12 CPD hours.
Summary
Everything that a corporate lawyer needs to know about acquisitions but is too afraid to ask! This course enables you to follow through a case study acquisition from choice of structure and due diligence to the completion meeting. This course is a must for any junior corporate lawyer involved in acquisitions work.
Objectives
The objectives of the training session are to enable participants to:
- Appreciate the factors to be considered in structuring an acquisition as a share sale or assets sale and gain an overview of the structure, process and documents
involved in an acquisition.
- Understand the purpose, scope and importance of due diligence, consider the need to tailor the due diligence exercise according to the nature of the target company or business, undertake a company search, review statutory books and commercial agreements and identify and report on key issues.
- Appreciate the function of warranties and indemnities and gain an understanding of the differing approaches of the seller and buyer in negotiating the terms of the warranties in the acquisition agreement and the general disclosures in the disclosure letter.
- Advise on the different forms of consideration that can be offered on a share sale and the funding options that are available (with relevant approvals and other formalities).
- Identify the documents that a seller and buyer would expect to produce at exchange and completion of a share sale and the practical issues that should be addressed.
- Consider the board minutes and other resolutions required at both exchange and completion.
- Anticipate and deal with common problems that arise at exchange and completion meetings.
Find out more
This course is taught on an in-house or consortia basis only. If you are interested in running the programme for your organisation, please contact us for more information:
E-mail: pd@lawcol.co.uk
Call: 0800 289997
