John has navigated start ups, turnarounds and acquisitions as both a business owner and attorney. He brings a passion for creative problem solving. Clients rely on John to identify and implement real world solutions to the legal and organizational problems faced by business owners. John's broad range of experience in the practical and legal points of every-day business matters brings a unique perspective to the business owners he works with every day.
As outside general counsel across a wide range of industries, John has developed a skill for guiding clients through transitional periods in their businesses. Whether a business has hit a rough patch, like owner disagreements, or needs to refactor its entire model in response to broad economic conditions, John helps clients stay focused on proactively identifying issues, and implementing strategies to address those issues before the company faces expensive litigation.
John has a special interest in start ups, turnarounds, and highly regulated industries.
The sale of a business is referred to as “taking one’s chips off of the table” because, the completion of the sale transaction, if carried off properly, pays the seller out and ends his or her risk in connection with the company.
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A lot of M&A ego and marketing talk focus on a transaction’s purchase price - that top line number of what the buyer is paying the seller for the assets or equity being purchased.
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As we’re mapping out a M&A deal, one thing that often comes as a surprise to clients is the number of agreements required to make up a transaction.
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When you’re on the sell side of a M&A transaction, your biggest role in the between LOI and closing is to gather and provide information requested for buyer diligence.
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There is often confusion between the functions of “diligence” and “disclosure” in a mergers and acquisitions transaction. Diligence and disclosure have a lot of conceptual and substantive crossover, but serve very different roles in a transaction, and both deserve the full attention of parties and counsel. In fact, disclosure (on the behalf of a seller), and understanding the seller’s disclosures (on the behalf of a buyer) are arguably one of the most important parts of any M&A transaction.
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