A stock purchase agreement outlines the sale of company stock to buyers. Here's how to create a stock purchase agreement, along with a helpful template.

In today’s complex business landscape, advisors play a vital role in guiding business owners through critical transitions, and succession planning is paramount among business owners’ concerns. While ...

Few business owners want to work with the spouses or children of a partner who can no longer perform their duties. In this situation, buy-sell agreements are best for severing ties. When a company has ...

What Is a Buy and Sell Agreement? A buy and sell agreement (or buy-sell agreement) is a legally binding contract that stipulates how a partner's share of a business may be reassigned if that partner ...

In the high-pressure world of restaurant ownership, partnerships can be as delicate as they are rewarding. When business owners don’t plan for the unexpected—whether that’s a partner’s departure, ...

Since buy-sell agreements require its owners to transfer equity in the practice group upon termination of employment, death, disability, or retirement (each, a “Trigger Event”), the practice group ...

Business owner clients seeking to use the shrinking estate-tax window to pass down closely held shares may need to think through new or updated buy-sell agreements. For business owners trying to ...

There are two significant reasons for a client to have an updated and funded buy-sell agreement. One is to allow the surviving partner to maintain sole control of the business if one of the owners or ...