Article Archives >> Ready Reference >> January 2001

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Mergers and Acquisitions Can Take Many Forms

This Ready Reference Page Covers:

  • Purchase of Assets
  • Acquisition of Stock
  • Substitution of Directors
  • Merger or Consolidation
  • Representations and Warranties

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Despite all the talk, relatively few mergers have actually occurred in the nonprofit world, and most of those are really take-overs of struggling organizations, not mergers of equals. Where the acquired organization has a checkered history--and uncertain potential liabliities--it probably makes sense to delay a true merger and take control in a way which protects the assets of the acquiring entity.

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Article Archives >> Ready Reference >> January 2001




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