Mergers & Acquisitions
Tuchman Law, APC advises founders, business owners, and investors in Los Angeles on complex acquisitions, dispositions, and business combinations, including leveraged buyouts (LBOs), debt for equity exchanges (cash for keys), and mergers structured as forward or reverse triangular mergers.
What We Handle
Buy-Side Representation
Counsel to acquirers on deal structure, due diligence coordination, letter of intent negotiation, and definitive agreement drafting — including asset purchases, stock purchases, and merger structures such as forward and reverse triangular mergers.
Sell-Side Representation
Guidance for founders and business owners preparing for a sale, including data room preparation, representation and warranty negotiation, earnout structuring, and closing mechanics designed to maximize proceeds and minimize post-closing exposure.
Leveraged Buyouts (LBOs) Representation in debt-financed acquisitions, including coordination of acquisition financing, intercreditor arrangements, and documentation of equity co-investment structures.
Joint Ventures & Strategic Combinations
Structuring and documentation of joint ventures, strategic partnerships, and business combinations where outright acquisition is not the right fit — including governance, economics, and exit provisions.
Buy-Side Representation
Counsel to acquirers on deal structure, due diligence coordination, letter of intent negotiation, and definitive agreement drafting — including asset purchases, stock purchases, and merger structures such as forward and reverse triangular mergers.
Why it Matters
M&A transactions are among the most consequential decisions a business owner or investor will make. The structure of a deal — asset versus stock, the allocation of representations and warranties, indemnification caps and baskets, earnout mechanics — directly affects how much you net and what exposure you carry after closing. Getting the details right at the term sheet stage is far less costly than renegotiating them at the closing table.