New Illinois Bar Video On Buying And Selling A Business

The Illinois State Bar Association just posted a video with me talking about the documents you need to negotiate in the course of buying or selling a business, from the initial nondisclosure/noncircumvent that allows buyers and sellers to exchange confidential information to the term sheet which outlines their deal to the final sales contract (with…

Parent companies may not be liable for their subsidiary company’s contracts and other liabilities

The First District of the Illinois Appellate Court, in Saletech, LLC v. East Balt, Inc. et. al., 2014 IL App (1st) 132639, https://www.state.il.us/court/Opinions/AppellateCourt/2014/1stDistrict/1132639.pdf, upheld a decision that a distribution agent who claimed that the European parent of a Ukrainian subsidiary had agreed to implement an exclusive US distribution rights deal with the Ukrainian subsidiary in…