The founder wanted his technicians looked after. We tied part of the earn-out to retention rather than revenue, which the buyer preferred too, and closed eleven weeks after signing the letter of intent.

Forty-one interviews and 180,000 documents. The board received a written report and recommendations in four months, and made its decision on the CEO the following week.

The cold-storage operator walked away from the contract in year three, claiming the carrier had missed temperature specifications. We showed the specifications had been changed by email and never agreed. The jury awarded lost profits for the remaining term.

An auction with four private equity bidders. We negotiated a 30 percent rollover for the family, kept the plant manager’s team on retention agreements and capped the indemnity at ten percent of the price.

The bottler refused resin-cost increases the contract allowed after the 2022 price spike. The award covered the unpaid increases, interest and our client’s legal fees.

Three sellers, two lenders and one closing date. Title and survey review turned up an unrecorded access easement on one site, which we resolved with the neighboring owner before closing.

Before the round opened we re-papered the company’s hospital data licenses so diligence found no surprises. The term sheet closed without a price adjustment.

The staff questioned bill-and-hold sales at quarter end. We ran the committee’s review, produced documents on a rolling basis and presented findings in person. The staff closed the inquiry with no recommendation of action.

Three sales managers resigned on a Friday and opened accounts for a competitor on Monday. We had forensic images of their laptops by Saturday, a TRO by Sunday afternoon and a preliminary injunction five weeks later.

The government was examining rebates paid to hospital buyers. We made two presentations to the U.S. Attorney’s office on the rebate program’s legal review. Neither executive was charged and the company paid no penalty.

A four-party transaction: land purchase from a family trust, construction financing, a developer agreement and the company’s fifteen-year lease. Zoning was approved before closing, so the company carried no entitlement risk.

A food processor blamed our client’s controls for a $14M line shutdown. After a seven-day trial the jury found for our client on every claim, and the Seventh Circuit affirmed in a published opinion.

The sellers argued the buyer had steered revenue away from the acquired product. The purchase agreement gave the buyer sole discretion over operations, and the Court of Chancery held the claims were barred by it.

The plaintiffs claimed members’ fingerprints were collected without written consent. We showed the chain had used a written release since 2016 and that the vendor never stored the templates. The court dismissed the case with prejudice.

The former chief executive argued he had been terminated without cause. We showed board minutes and his own emails establishing the cause provisions had been met. The arbitrator also awarded our client its fees.

Our clients held 40 percent of the company and had received no distributions for six years. The valuation expert’s report and a trial date did the rest: a buyout at full value, paid over three years with security.