Exit Strategies: Selling Companies to Employees, Part 1 and 2 - Audio Webcast
January 2019
Thursday, January 31, 2019
Exit Strategies: Selling Companies to Employees, Part 1 and 2
Program Description
Many closely held companies have only two potential sets of buyers - family members of the founding generation or managers and other employees of the enterprise. The market of third-party buyers for closely held companies can be very thin, so that when family members are not suitable buyers of a company, often the best solution is to sell to employees. But sales to employees are unlike sales to third-parties or family members, involving complex issues of how to finance the sale, transition management and control of the enterprise, retain key employees, and tax treatment. This program will provide you with a detailed discussion of the major issues of selling to employees, including valuation, how the sale price is financed, transition periods, retaining employees not in the buyout group, and tax treatment.
- Long-range planning of sales to employees – and benefits over selling to third parties or family members
- Negotiating with employees over sales price and valuation issues
- Transitions of management control, including retaining seller/founder for a period of time
- Practical governance issues when employees are identified as potential buyers
- Overview of alternative structures and the tradeoffs of each
- ESOPs – structural, practical and tax issues, including leveraged buyout options
- Use of company redemptions of founders to accomplish a transfer
- Crucial issues in drafting “earnouts” on sales to employees
- Seller financing options, including long-term notes and security interest in assets
Faculty: Paul Kaplun, Venable, LLP
Each program will run from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. M.T. (60 minutes each).
Registration Fees
| Non Member | $109.00 |
| CBA Member | $79.00 |
| Tuition Assistance | $0.00 |
| CLEACCESSPASS | $0.00 |
- General Credits: 2.00
- Ethics Credits: 0.00
- EDI Credits:
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