News & Insights

• What’s Your Take on M&A into 2024? We’d Like to Know.
  

• Maybe the Best of Times for LMM Company Sellers?
  

• One of the Easiest Ways to Increase Your Company’s Value Now: Review and Improve Your Company’s Third-Party Contracts
  

• End-of-Summer 2023 M&A Outlook: “In This Market, Sellers Cannot Prepare Enough”
  

• Protecting and Enhancing Business Value: Make Your Professional Advisers “Ramp Agents”
  

• Most Private Business Owners Don’t Know What Their Company is Worth – How is That?
  

• When Company Founders (or Their Co-Owners) Have a Falling Out: Plan While the Marriage is Still Good!
  

• Keeler Owner's Korner | Capitalize on the Private Business Exit Wave – Whether You Expect an Ownership Change Soon or Later
  

• Keeler Owner's Korner | After Tax-Season, Private Business Owners Should Work With Their Advisors to Minimize Taxes on Shareholder Value
  

• Keeler Owner’s Korner | Shareholder Value Should Be Every Private Company’s Core Strategy
  

• Leading Your Private Company Into 2023 | Part II: Strategic and Growth Planning for a Rebound
  

• Leading Your Private Company Into 2023 | Part I: Financial and Management Planning for a Downturn
  

• Your Business Lawyer’s Best Friend . . . Your CPA
  

• Interviewing Investment Bankers for Your Company’s Sale Process? . . . Here are Some Questions to Ask
  

• How Companies Looking to Sell Should Deal with the Q3 Further M&A Downturn
  

• For Private Company Owners: Why Your Business Plan Needs Your Estate Plan
  

• Top 10 Reasons Why This Downturn May Not Stall 2023 M&A and PE Dealmaking
  

• End of Summer 2022 M&A Outlook (US): Time is Running Short to Close a 2022 Sale, But It May Be Worth the Push
  

• Want to Sell Your Company or Raise Capital? The People That Can Make (or Break) the Deal
  

• Everyone’s Asking (Again): Are Private Company Sales Getting Done?
  

• Employee Equity Incentives: The Beauty and the Beast of LLC Profits Interest
  

• Is Your Company a C Corporation, S Corporation or LLC? . . . And When Might You Have to Change?
  

• Giving Employees a Piece of the Company Equity Pie
  

• 50-50 Private Company Ownership: Challenges And Proper Planning
  

• M&A Purchase Agreements: What Should Matter to Sellers
  

• M&A Valuation Gaps or Seller “Skin in the Game”: Notes, Earnouts and Equity Rollovers
  

• The Underrated Value of a Company Board
  

• 2022 M&A Market: Good Companies Can Defy Deal Statistics
  

• Venture Capital Term Sheets – From the Founder’s and Company’s Perspective
  

• Founder Independence: A Life, Some Liberty and the Pursuit of Liquidity
  

• So, Your Business is Not Early-Stage or Ready to Exit? Meet “Growth Private Equity”, and Prepare to Get Your Terms
  

• Should You Raise Capital or Exit Your Business in 2022?
  

• Planning a Company’s Ownership: Why Your Capitalization Table Matters
  

• Before You Search for Capital, Try to See Your Company Through a VC’s (or its Lawyer’s) Eyes
  

• Managing a Deal for Efficiency and Effectiveness
  

• How Will the Attorney “Supply Chain” Problem Impact Business Transactions?1
  

• ‍Quoted, "Capital idea: the rise of venture debt," Financier Worldwide, March 2021
  

• Author, "Institutional Pullback Presents Family Office Opportunities," Law360, May 6, 2020
  

• Co-author, Founders, Helpers, and Angels: Dividing the Company Pie, Virginia Lawyer, June 2016
  

• Co-author, "Inside the Deal," Buyouts, January 30, 2012
  

• Co-author, "Increasing Buyout Deal Flow with Carve-Outs," TheDeal.com, September 2011
  

• Author, "Operating Agreements for Emerging Growth LLCs," The Virginia Lawyer, October 2009
  

• Co-author, "Teaching Founders to Roll Over," Practical US/Domestic Tax Strategies, June 2008
  

• Co-author, "Deal Process and Terms in the Downturn," M&A Alerts, Publication of The M&A Advisor, May 23, 2008