Whether you are a law student taking a clinical course on business transactions, a first year attorney or banker on a mergers and acquisitions team, a sophisticated practitioner faced with your first stock deal, or an entrepreneur selling your company, Stock Purchase Agreements Line by Line is a great starting place for learning the basics of a stock purchase and sale transaction. In this book the authors translate the complicated representations, warranties, indemnification obligations, and covenants that typify purchase agreements into user friendly terms that are easily understood. While this book assumes the reader has no experience drafting or negotiating stock purchase agreements, it contains tips and techniques that even more experienced deal practitioners should find novel and useful. Additionally, the book is peppered with guest contributions from seasoned attorneys offering practical pointers on various key deal terms. If you are looking for a quick way to jump into M&A, this is the book for you.

Written by experienced corporate attorneys, Stockholders Agreements Line by Line provides a practical approach to understanding the issues involved in drafting and negotiating a stockholders agreement. Participants in a closely-held corporation often use a stockholders agreement to establish an understanding among themselves and the corporation as to the corporations governance, special approval rights, information and access rights, transfer rights and restrictions, and rights to participate in future capital raises and sale transactions. This book analyzes a sample agreement from the perspective of each of the parties involveda control investor, a co-investor, a lender, and management. The authors offer guidance on negotiating positions commonly taken by the different parties to the agreement and address the remedies that each party might seek to protect its rights. Stockholders Agreements Line by Line is a valuable resource for anyone who has ever negotiated a stockholders agreement, as well as for any party who is about to enter into such an agreement. This book contains a CD-Rom that features the PDF and Word versions of the final text of the book, which enables readers to manipulate the contract.

Written by an experienced M&A practitioner, M&A and Private Equity Confidentiality Agreements Line by Line brings to market the definitive and most comprehensive coverage to date of the confidentiality agreement process in the M&A and private equity settings, making it a critical resource for practitioners in the legal, business, and financial professions. Offering in-depth explanations of each clause as well as practical advice on negotiations, this book covers every key topic in a confidentiality agreement, including limitations on sharing of information, standstill provisions, and non-solicit clauses among many others. This book also provides readers with sample language for each clause and a discussion of each sides likely reaction and counter-reaction, drawn from real-world negotiations.

Written by practicing attorneys with nationwide experience in drafting and negotiating operating agreements, LLC Operating Agreements Line by Line is a comprehensive explanation of the material provisions and issues that arise among members of a limited liability company when preparing or amending an operating agreement.

In the original Hedge Fund Agreements Line by Line, author Gregory J. Nowak took a standard operating agreement, broke it down step by step, and explained all parts of the venturefrom forming a company to liquidating assets and dissolving the partnership. This second edition is all new, re-written to deal with issues facing hedge funds in the current market environment, and takes into account the lessons learned from the market meltdown of 2008 to early 2009. It has an expanded valuation section that addresses FAS 157 and 157-4 issues, and a robust Designated Asset system that deals with side pockets and special assets in Master Feeder and single-strategy structures. The author has included a running commentary on the Model Operating Agreement of the ABC Fund, LLC, with a practitioners insights on why certain provisions are drafted the way they are. An indispensable tool for any hedge fund manager, this book offers a swift yet informative read on all legal aspects of forming and operating this investment vehicle.

In such a business climate that demands a heightened understanding and keen ability to leverage essential technologies, one must understand every element of an agreement as critical and essential as the software user/vendor contract. As there has long been a disconnect between the express interests of the end user and the objectives of the vendor party in the developing, drafting and executing of such contracts, Software Licenses Line by Line serves to bridge this gap. Taking a standard agreement and breaking it down clause by clause, explaining the nuances of the language and the implications inherent there within, authors Michael Overly and James Kalyvas (partners at Foley & Lardner) present a comprehensive overview of a contract, detail how it can be manipulated, offer practical solutions to prevent against this and suggest ways in which it might be adapted to meet the needs of the end user. A never-before offered glimpse into the often daunting world of these highly-technical agreements, Software Licenses Line by Line highlights the often overlooked, unnoticed and even hidden aspects of authorizing, purchasing and leveraging such business-critical assets. The ability to understand and develop user-friendly software licenses and agreements offers unparalleled advantages for any company invested in, or making decisions around, purchasing software. This book will prove instrumental in rendering any reader an informed user, a more strategic thinker and above all, an empowered consumer.

Angel Investing: Start to Finish is the most comprehensive practical and legal guide written to help investors and entrepreneurs avoid making expensive mistakes. Angel investing can be fun, financially rewarding, and socially impactful. But it can also be a costly endeavor in terms of money, time, and missed opportunities. Through the successes, failures, and collective experience of the authors you’ll learn how to navigate the angel investment process to maximize your chances of success and manage downside risks as an investor or entrepreneur. You’ll learn how: - Lead investors evaluate deals - Lawyers think through term sheets - To keep perspective through losses and triumphs This book will also be of use to founders raising an angel round, who will be wise to learn how decisions are made on the other side of the table. No matter where you’re starting from, this book will give you the context to become a savvier thinker, a better negotiator, and a positive member of the angel investing and startup communities.