Sale of a Business, 16th Edition + E-Book

The Road Map for Sale and Purchase of a Business – NOW in its 16th Edition
Advising clients on the purchase or sale of a business requires you to stay abreast of all applicable legislation and procedures. Updated by Jason Sernoskie, one of Canada's leading commercial law practitioners, Sale of a Business, 16th Edition provides comprehensive, step-by-step guidance that takes readers through the sale of a business from beginning to end.

Features and Benefits

• Expert commentary – offers background to enable you to easily adapt the forms to the transaction at hand and alerts you to particular statutory requirements
• Forms and precedents – more than 150 transactional and legal documents tailored to your client's needs. In certain cases, alternative or optional clauses are supplied which supplement the precedents
• Checklists – numerous checklists will help you structure documents from beginning to end, as well as create custom-made documents

Also included are:

• Alternative clauses for purchase agreements providing additional flexibility in your drafting
• Numerous search letter precedents
• Discussion of the issues that arise in organizing and financing the purchase, including precedents to accompany the commentary
• Special vendor section – estates, secured creditors, receivers, trustees in bankruptcy, mortgagees under power of sale
• Checklists are cross-referenced to pertinent commentary, including:
  • Freehold investigations
  • Shareholder agreements
  • Partnership agreements
  • Considerations for purchaser/vendor
  • Purchasing a franchise
  • Employment and labour law
  • Intellectual property
  • Environmental considerations
  • Pension considerations