Share sale or business sale? 3: What are you trying to sell?
Differences between share and business sales #3: What are you actually trying to sell (ie what are you selling and how do you transfer it?)
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Share sale or business sale #2: Who or what is selling?
Do you know the differences between a share sale and a business sale? This Guide focusses on some of the things to think about based on who or what is doing the selling.
Selling your business or your company #1: What’s the difference?
When first speaking to company owners who are thinking of selling up, I am often surprised by how many of them have not thought about the many differences between a company sale (ie selling the shares in a company) and a business sale (ie a company selling its business and assets as a going concern). And even when speaking to quite savvy business owners or accountants and other professional advisors I am often surprised at how they have not appreciated some of the differences between these two types of deals.
So, in this series of Guides, I am going to explain lots of ways in which company sales and business sales are different, which you should ideally be aware of if you are a business owner who might ever want to sell (or buy) a business (or a company…).
Ways to deal with fallouts in deadlock companies
Some guidance as to other possible ways and strategies to help you resolve a deadlock, including how you can use the courts to help.
50:50 companies – how to prevent deadlock paralysis
How having a well-thought-out and well-drafted shareholders agreement can help prevent the potential paralysis caused by a fallout between the owners of a deadlock company.
The problem with 50:50 companies – deadlock paralysis
Deadlock companies - why deadlock paralysis can be such a pain and the basic ways in which you can prevent it.
The top questions any shareholders agreement needs to address
A meaty Guide setting out some key issues to address in any shareholders agreement, particularly one between founders
Shareholder agreements – preliminary questions for founders
This third Guide in my series sets out some questions founders should consider before they even think of divvying up the shares or asking someone to draft a shareholders agreement for them.
Is your shareholders agreement fit for purpose?
One size doesn't fit all - why you might need a shareholders agreement in different shareholder scenarios