As the managing director of a Pittsburgh based lower-middle market mergers & acquisitions firm I hold a unique perspective on the business transaction marketplace, the advisors offering you their services and the questions that you should be asking to make sure that you hire the RIGHT business broker / intermediary to represent your business for [...]
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1031 exchanges are most often associated with investment real estate as a way to defer taxable investment gains. However, section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”) is NOT limited to real estate transactions. A number of other assets qualify, including most tangible business assets. Section 1031 provides that “No gain or loss shall be [...]
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After my post on “Why Companies Make Acquisitions” an attorney friend of mine and I engaged in an interesting conversation regarding the poison pill strategy. Some of which I would like to share with you. The term poison pill refers to a strategy employed by a company to avoid a hostile or unwanted takeover. This [...]
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