Are you searching for the right attorney for a stock purchase in San Diego or Southern California? There are many steps to buying a business effectively while reducing risk and potential contingent liabilities. It’s a lot more than writing a check and taking someone’s word for it. The experienced mergers and acquisitions attorneys at the Watkins Firm have more than 40 years of experience in literally thousands of business acquisitions and stock purchase transactions. We provide sound advice and counsel all the way through this financially and legally complex business transaction.
The Steps of a Successful Stock Purchase Transaction
What are the general steps of a successful stock purchase transaction here in San Diego and throughout California? What are a few of the most important keys to protect the interests of each party and to complete a successful and profitable transaction? What makes our attorney the right attorney for a stock purchase transaction?
The Harvard Business Review recently published a thorough review of several collegiate studies that evaluated stock purchase transactions in the United States. The article concluded that more than 70% of mergers and acquisitions transactions in the United States fail.
Our founder, Dan Watkins, is appalled by this report. “The vast, vast majority of our stock purchase transactions have been resounding successes,” Dan notes. Why? How does the Watkins Firm help to make the difference between a 70+% fail or success rate?
The answer is experience gained across 40+ years of working on these transactions. We have developed a proprietary library of battle-tested and proven acquisition contracts and due diligence checklists that give our clients a competitive edge and insight that is not available anywhere else.
It is important to complete a thorough due diligence process, to verify the information provided by the seller, and to ensure accurate valuation. Protecting the business’ good will is a critical component of long-term success.
Your Watkins Firm attorney will help you to effectively negotiate the best possible price and terms, and carefully craft a purchase agreement that best fits the unique circumstances of the company you are acquiring. Each provides differing levels of advantage, risk and protections to you as a buyer. Part of buying a business effectively while reducing risk almost always involves creativity – whether it involves owner carry-back financing, or the structuring of continued employment for key personnel, retaining crucial customers and appropriately structured progress payments to the seller. We have helped to facilitate thousands of these transactions across our more than four decades of service to San Diego and California, and we can help to bring your ideas to life.
If you are searching for the right attorney for a stock purchase and interested in buying a business effectively while reducing risk in San Diego we invite you to review our recent podcast Episode 13 – Mergers and Acquisitions as well as the strong recommendations of our clients and contact the Watkins Firm or call 858-535-1511 for a complimentary consultation today.
We’ll discuss your goals for the transaction as well as the steps in the process including a Letter of Intent, due diligence, crafting the purchase agreement, and creative problem solving. You need to make sure there are no hidden risks or contingent liabilities that could arise after the transaction is completed. Our goal is to help you to purchase the company of your dreams and make the process of buying a business and getting off on the right foot easier and more profitable.
