What’s Love Got to Do With It? Let’s Talk Money in M&A

Synergy is to many M&A transactions as love is to personal relationships. While parties to an M&A transaction often vocalize the synergistic match between the parties (love, love, love!), the more immediate question between the parties is how much the buyer is willing to pay for the target company (how much do you love me?). Thus, purchase price provisions are consistently among the most highly negotiated provisions in any M&A transaction (show me the money!). Check out this practice note by Stephen Glover of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, to get an overview of considerations for M&A counsel when drafting or negotiating purchase price provisions in an acquisition agreement. 

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