Avoiding Costly Shareholder and Post-Acquisition Disputes
Overview
Understanding how careful drafting of shareholder and Sale and Purchase agreements can mitigate the risk of costly legal disputes.
One of the downsides of COVID-19 has been an uptick in shareholder and post-acquisition disputes, with cash-strapped business owners seeking to exit businesses or look for ways to extract additional value from the sale of businesses. While the underlying causes of those disputes are not specific to COVID-19, they represent common themes often present in such disputes because of the manner in which the agreements are drafted.
This presentation identifies the common areas of dispute and presents a number of straight-forward ways to improve the drafting of shareholder and Sale & Purchase agreements to reduce the scope of future disputes. It will include a recent case study involving a shareholder dispute concerning the value of the business, to demonstrate how the considered drafting of a shareholder agreement can avoid costly litigation.
Webinar Learning Outcomes:
- Understand key drivers of shareholder and valuation disputes
- Understand how the risks of costly future disputes and value leakage when buying / selling businesses can be avoided through appropriate drafting of shareholder and Sale & Purchase agreements
Suited to:
- Lawyers involved in drafting shareholder and Sale & Purchase agreements or litigating shareholder disputes, post-acquisition and earnout disputes
- Accountants who advise clients on the sale and acquisition of businesses / provide financial due diligence and/or forensic accounting services
- Business owners looking to buy or sell businesses
- The course assumes a working knowledge of accounting and financial statements
- The course is agnostic as to organisation size
You will also be provided with:
- PowerPoint Slide Deck
- Searchable Transcript
- Any Supporting Documentation
- Webinar Recording to view multiple times for up to 6 months
- Q&A Session & follow up contact details
- CPD Quiz & Certificate
Course syllabus
3 lessons
- Video – Avoiding Costly Shareholder and Post-Acquisition DisputesVideo
- FeedbackSurvey
- Knowledge QuizTest
Your presenter
Paul Croft,BRI Ferrier Forensic
Director, BRI Ferrier Forensic.
Paul has over 20 years of experience in forensic accounting, financial due diligence, financial reporting, financial control and finance transformation. Spanning careers in leading global consulting firms (including secondments to London and New York) and Australia’s largest financial institutions, Paul is an expert in data analysis, structured operating model reviews, financial modelling and delivering innovative solutions to complex business problems.
Paul has assisted on, or led, a wide range of matters as expert witness and expert determiner. His forensic accounting experience includes commercial disputes, insolvent trading, expert determinations, breach of contract, business interruption and financial investigations. As independent expert, he has given expert oral evidence in the District and Supreme Courts of New South Wales.