Legal Due Diligence - w/ Jonathan Brandes

Most buyers focus on the numbers. The quality of earnings, the EBITDA margins, the revenue trend. The financials tell you if the business makes money. Legal due diligence tells you if you get to keep it.

Jonathan Brandes founded Brandes Law Group after building his career across Big Law and the Fortune 500 — M&A at Greenberg Traurig representing private equity funds, strategic investors, and owners in the purchase and sale of privately held companies, then in-house corporate counsel at Carrier Global on domestic and international deals. He built his firm on one premise: founders and operators deserve sophisticated counsel that is accessible and priced fairly.

In this session Jonathan walks through what legal due diligence actually looks like in a lower middle market acquisition — the employment contracts that can unwind a deal post-close, the representations and warranties that protect you when the seller misremembers something important, the escrow…