Tips for Buying a Business

Kidding aside, when you go to buy a business, you need a good lawyer on your team. But why pay more than necessary for their advice.
In buying a business, the key to saving legal fees is engaging the right lawyer to act at the right time.

• Use a specialist—most lawyers are focused on other legal practices and not familiar with tax and transaction and intellectual property law.
• Get an estimate of fees before starting the legal work.
• Make a conditional, non-binding offer and refundable deposit.
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• Instruct your lawyer to run everything by your business broker before it goes to the other party’s lawyer.
• Understand that because their job is to protect your interests against all conceivable risks, the safest recommendation they can make in every situation is to not take a risk.