Mergers and Acquisitions Lawyers in the USA

In this article I discuss business mergers, from a legal perspective. Without further adieu:

In this article, the author discusses the merger of medical practices, from a legal perspective.

When negotiating the sale and purchase of a privately-held business, a critical consideration for the parties is whether to structure the transaction as a “stock” or asset sale. For purposes of this article, a “stock” sale means the purchase and sale of the owner’s equity interest in the business. An asset sale, on the other hand, is the sale of all or most of the individual assets held by the business.

According to California labor law, the IRS has developed a checklist to distinguish between an independent contractor vs. full time. Understand this list to avoid any conflict between employee or contractor distinctions.

The Rochester Network Advisory Opinion is one of the few sources that we have to get a glimpse of what is required for a health care organization to "clinically integrate." Clinical integration is one method to reduce risk under the antitrust laws. Some of the details of the advisory opinion are discussed and analyzed by provider integration attorney John Fisher.

This article gives an overview of buying and selling a professional practice, be it a medical, dental, accounting, veterinarian or other practice.

Buying or selling a medical, dental or other health care practice is a complex process. Legal, tax, accounting, valuation and psychology issues are all involved.

Both the buyer and the target should value the target. Buyer does so for obvious reasons, and target does so to determine the asking price for the business.

In this article the author explains buy-sell agreements. Buy-sell protects a business from its owners, specifically their deaths, disabilities, divorces, disputes, bankruptcies and creditors.

Negotiation is a fact of life. We negotiate all the time, professionally and personally. Think of all the negotiation you do on a daily basis with your spouse and children. Negotiation is fun too, if you keep your ego out of it.