Drafting and Negotiating Stock Purchase Agreements

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On-Demand The class is fully asynchronous. Do the work at your own pace, turn in your assignment when you're ready, and get instant feedback via model answers and video review sessions.

Interactive Learn with dynamic, interactive modules that keep you engaged in active learning using a variety of learning modes.

Experiential Includes practical assessments throughout the class, plus a capstone assignment where you apply your skills in the context of a real-world matter.

Overview

This class has participants explore the differences between a stock purchase and an asset purchase, with particular focus on operative provisions and representations and warranties. The instructor will use an actual stock purchase agreement to exemplify key provisions and drafting considerations, highlighting differences with asset purchases where significant. Participants will practice drafting and negotiating various provisions clearly and precisely, taking into account buyer and seller concerns. Practice tips for redlining and commenting on drafts will also be discussed in context. While certain provisions will be discussed in more detail, the aim of this Class is to give the participant a broad understanding of the transaction document as a whole so that he or she feels comfortable reviewing, drafting, and negotiating this type of document.

Negotiate and draft a stock agreement like a veteran. You'll learn the differences between an SPA and APA, the key provisions (e.g., operative provisions and reps & warranties) and common drafting techniques. Then practice what you learned by converting a seller-friendly APA to a buyer-friendly SPA.

Level: Basic-Intermediate

This class is suitable for attorneys at any level who have a general interest in M&A with some exposure to basic corporate transactions. A general understanding of contract basics and/or prior completion of AltaClaro’s Essentials of Contract Drafting is helpful but not required.

**It is recommended that participants complete AltaClaro’s Overview of M&A Transactions and Drafting & Negotiating Asset Purchase Agreements (or otherwise have some basic exposure to M&A transactions as a junior attorney) prior to taking this course.

Simulation Exercise

Participants are provided with a buyer-revised APA and asked to revise it based on precedent to make it more buyer-friendly and/or neutral and to convert it to SPA form. In performing the exercise, participants must consider the overall context of the proposed transaction, the relative bargaining power of the parties, and the underlying business issues.

Instructors Who Practice What They Teach

Adriel Sanders

x-Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

David Case

x-White & Case; x-Orrick

Doug Young

x-Baker McKenzie; x-White & Case

Aaron Melville

Global Head of Tech Transactions, Uber; x-Disney; x-O’Melveny; x-Weil Gotshal

Chris Drews

x-Disney

Julie Ryan

Head of Experiential Learning, AltaClaro; x-Akin Gump; x-Clifford Chance

Mick Galvin

x-Sidley; x-Allen & Overy

Stephen Kaplitt

x-Weil Gotshal; x-Cadwalader

Clara Duffield

x-Baker McKenzie

Mike Shea

x-Baker McKenzie, x-Morrison & Foerster

John Babcock

Partner, Waldrep Wall

Success Stories

"I think this is a gamechanger for training. Associates can benefit from the guidance of real practitioners and learn in a low stakes environment."

Anjie Vichayanonda Associate, Haynes & Boone LLP

"As an experienced practitioner who has worked in both AmLaw 100 and public company, in-house environments, the training AltaClaro provided helped supplement my knowledge of corporate law."

Ryan Nayar Legal Counsel, Centrica

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