Levine: Trends in M&A Deal Terms

Today’s post of the day is from my partner Seth Levine (Foundry Group) and is titled Trends in M&A Deal Terms. Seth has been involved in several significant acquisitions recently, including Google’s acquisition of AdMeld and Federated Media’s acquisition of Lijit, so he’s been deep in the contemporary negotiating dynamics. He also includes a great […]

Merger and Acquisition Due Diligence – The Seriousness of the Acquirer

Part 2 of David Shanberg’s article on M&A Due Diligence. Part 1 addressed what to expect from the due diligence process. This time David addresses “How To Be Protect Your Confidential Information While Still Moving the Process Forward.” Potential acquirers are typically trustworthy and sincere in their intent when conducting due diligence, with making an acquisition the […]

April 29, 2007

Common Stock Carveouts In Acquisitions

If you read our term sheet series, you know that we spent a fair amount of time discussing liquidation preferrences. Jesse Fried and Brian Broughman, a professor and graduate student at Berkeley, respectively, recently published a paper about the emergence of common stock carveouts and some of the reasons why they belive venture capitals are […]

May 27, 2008

Should I Be A Shareholder Representative?

Note: This was actually a question that I received from a colleague via email, but thought I’d post it here given the content. Q: My company is close to signing a contract to sell the business. Although I’m prepared to do the role, one of the board members has suggested that we consider using a […]

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