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Legal Aspects of Global Business: Protecting your business interests

Legal Aspects of Global Business: Protecting your business interests. Tyler T. Ray, Esq. Duffy & Sweeney, LTD tray@duffysweeney.com. Creating a Due Diligence Framework. What is due diligence? Who are the parties, what are the goals

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Legal Aspects of Global Business: Protecting your business interests

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  1. Legal Aspects of Global Business: Protecting your business interests Tyler T. Ray, Esq. Duffy & Sweeney, LTD tray@duffysweeney.com

  2. Creating a Due Diligence Framework • What is due diligence? • Who are the parties, what are the goals • Important diligence points to consider in international transactions • How the Due Diligence can impact the deal

  3. "Due diligence" is the investigation into the business, legal and financial affairs of the entity (“target”) • This target investigation occurs in connection with a wide variety of transactions, including financings and acquisitions of shares or assets, on an international scale • Requires “Team” • Identify risk and assess accordingly What Exactly is “Due Diligence”?

  4. The General Goals of Due Diligence are: • Evaluating whether the price to be paid in a transaction is in fact fair • Determining the strengths and weaknesses of the target company • Concluding whether there are significant problem areas or "deal breakers;" and • Assessing whether the contemplated transaction is likely to meet the originally defined objectives.

  5. Employees • Trade Unions • Shareholders • Creditors • Vendors • Customers • Government • Society Parties in Due Diligence

  6. Due Diligence Request List – a document that will review all areas of the target company, such as: • Legal • Personnel • Financial Operations / Accounting • Tax • Marketing • Property and Equipment • Business Operations • Joint Ventures / Alliances / Partnerships International Transactions

  7. Successor liability – minimizing potential liability for prior activities of the target company • Identifying existing and avoiding future compliance issues • Assessing timeline and cost of post-acquisition compliance; and • Assisting in integration of the target’s business into the business of the acquiring company Important Issues in International Deals

  8. Important Issues in International Deals • The nature and type of target’s international commercial activities; • The target’s affiliates, customers, agents, distributors, and export destinations; • The target’s suppliers and the nature and type and origin of raw materials or finished goods sourced by the target • Prior enforcement actions, prior disclosures, and legal advice; and • Existing compliance and recordkeeping programs

  9. Target Structure • Tax • Business Issues • Cash Flow • Customer Base • Import / Export • Litigation • Product Liability • Intellectual Property • Infringement Hot Spots

  10. Representations and Warranties • Materiality Qualifiers • Knowledge Qualifiers • Indemnification • Carve-Outs Purchase Agreement

  11. Valuation Reduction • Escrow • Voluntary Disclosure • Indemnification • Post-closing Cooperation • Stripping “offending” Assets Approaches for Dealing with Results of Due Diligence

  12. Questions Tyler T. Ray tray@duffysweeney.com

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