"I Want Out!": Exit Rights in Business Agreements

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COURSE INFO

  • Presentation Date 1/15/2020
  • Next Class Time 1:00 PM ET
  • Duration 60 min.
  • Format Audio Webcast
  • Program Code 01152020
  • MCLE Credits 1 hour(s)


Course Price: $79.00
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COURSE DESCRIPTION

A client investment in an operating business, particularly a minority stake, is only as good as its liquidity.  If a client cannot readily sell his or her ownership stake at fair market value, it has little real value. The key to ensuring liquidity is contractually creating a private market for the ownership stake.  This market can come in the form of requiring other stakeholders, including the majority owner, to buy the minority stake at a mutually agreeable price, or creating other mechanisms for selling the stake to third parties. Without these contract rights, a stakeholder has no liquidity and is stuck. This program will provide you with a practical to planning and drafting contractual liquidity rights in closely held companies.

  • Planning and drafting liquidity rights in closely held companies
  • Counseling clients about the limitations and risks of liquidity in closely held companies
  • Framework of alternatives for determining most appropriate liquidity rights
  • “Texas standoff” or “Russian roulette” – opportunities, risks and tradeoffs
  • Drafting “tag-along” and “drag-along” rights – practical uses and drawbacks
  • How to think about valuing closely held ownership stakes

 

Speaker:

Frank Ciatto is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Venable, LLP, where he has 20 years’ experience advising clients on mergers and acquisitions, limited liability companies, tax and accounting issues, and corporate finance transactions.  He is a leader of his firm’s private equity and hedge fund groups and a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions Subcommittee of the ABA Business Law Section.  He is a Certified Public Accountant and earlier in his career worked at what is now PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York.  Mr. Ciatto earned his B.A., cum laude, at Georgetown University and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.