This session covers:
- Locked box versus completion accounts
- Adjustments required at completion
- Reviewing share sale agreements – what do they mean from a tax perspective?
- Impact of COVID relief on transactions?
- Reviewing standard provisions in SSA’s relating to completion accounts
- Setting criteria for working capital adjustments (before/after completion, common pitfalls, common areas for conflict)
- Earn-outs (tax and commercial issues)
- Negotiating tax warranties in SSAs
- Documenting roll-overs; and
- Responsibilities and control over unlodged returns.