In-House Counsel M&A Due Diligence for AI Products: A Technical and Legal Checklist for Acquirers AI targets require a different diligence playbook than standard tech M&A. Here are the six risk buckets, red flags that should reprice or kill a deal, and how to structure AI-specific reps and warranties.
Practice Transitions Buying a Law Practice: What Every Attorney Acquirer Needs to Know About Due Diligence, Valuation, and Deal Structure Thinking about buying a law practice? This guide covers the attorney-buyer's full due diligence playbook — from valuing goodwill to structuring earnouts to navigating ABA Rule 1.17's client notification requirements.
Practice Transitions Succession Isn't a Listing: Why Selling Your Firm Is the Smaller Half of the Plan Brokers and valuation tools pitch retiring lawyers a one-time sale — but a sale is the smaller half of succession. The bigger half is continuity: who keeps serving your clients. Even Rule 1.17 centers the client, not your payout. Here's succession reframed from exit to stewardship.
Founders Earnouts, Bad Faith, and a Chatbot: What Fortis Advisors v. Krafton Means for Founders Who Sell A Delaware court ordered Krafton to reinstate the ousted Subnautica 2 CEO after its own chief executive used ChatGPT to engineer a 'takeover' and dodge a $250M earnout. Here is what founders who sell their companies should take from the ruling.
AI Law Lawful Training Corpus Warranties: Post-Bartz Rep & Warranty Drafting Bartz $1.5B + Kadrey caution = standard IP rep is not enough. Four-lane lawful-training-corpus warranty, AI BOM disclosure schedule, three indemnity calibration levers, three drafting fact patterns.
AI Law AI Diligence for M&A: The Workstream Most Buyers Aren't Running Yet AI diligence is now what cyber-DD was in 2018: a discrete M&A workstream that wasn't standard until the loss profile forced it. After Bartz $1.5B, Mobley, TRAIGA, and EU AI Act high-risk obligations, here is the buyer-side framework.
AI Law Roll-Up Acquirers and the AI Compliance-by-Design Question Roll-ups are repetitive by definition. Each acquired target imports its own AI exposure stack — shadow AI, pre-mid-2025 vendor reps, training-corpus gaps. Build compliance-by-design at the platform layer; phased Day 1-180 integration playbook.
SBA The SBA 7(a) Playbook for Buying a Closely Held Business: What SOP 50-10 8 Changed and How to Close the Deal Buying a closely held business on SBA 7(a) means working against a rulebook that changed on June 1, 2025. The playbook: personal guarantees, affiliation rules, Form 155 seller-note standby, SOP 50-10 8 change-of-ownership rules, and the diligence checklist that stops closings.
