• Practice Management - QuickRead Top Story - Valuation/Appraisal

    Selling Your Business

    Post Closing Task List This article provides readers with a checklist used at a business transaction that just closed. The list was adapted from e-mails sent by the author to clients immediately after the closing. The list includes what they can and should do following the closing and is a way to further involve oneself in post-closing activities. The list collects all the different things (personal, investing planning, and business) the client would need to become involved with and think about, including the final sales’ price adjustments. This is a checklist for clients that just closed on the sale of…

  • Mergers and Acquisitions/Exit Planning - QuickRead Top Story - Valuation/Appraisal

    Financial Advisory Services

    And S Corporation Acquisitions Analysts should be aware that one transaction tax structure that is particularly popular regarding private equity firm acquisitions is an Internal Revenue Code Section 368(a)(1)(F) reorganization of the private S corporation. The article discusses several of the reasons why owners may want to sell—and why private equity firms may want to buy—an S corporation target company. The article describes what analysts need to know about the benefits to the S corporation sellers of a Section 368(a)(1)(F) reorganization as one step in the private company sale transaction. In addition, it also describes what analysts need to know…

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    Analyst Considerations of a Taxable Stock Purchase M&A Structure

    Transaction Structure Considerations on Target Company Value Valuation analysts do not have to be investment bankers to value an M&A candidate, but they do need to understand taxable and non-taxable stock acquisitions. This discussion summarizes some of the tax benefits—and some of the tax complexities—associated with a taxable stock purchase deal structure. Although the analyst is not expected to be the transaction income tax advisor, the analyst opining on the deal price fairness to any of the deal participants should be generally aware of these transaction structure considerations.