M&A Earnouts and Economic Uncertainty: Negotiating and Structuring, Best Practices for Avoiding Disputes

Mr. Dorough-Lewis’ experience in the corporate and federal government sectors allows him to successfully and efficiently navigate the complexities of mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financing, joint ventures, technology, government contracts, and other corporate transactions. He works with both buyers and sellers in M&A transactions and has experience representing entrepreneurs, buyers, and sellers across industries in addressing the unique challenges for all parties involved in a transaction. In sales transactions, he is familiar with the potential legal risks involved and works to minimize those issues, while creating advantageous transactions that meet the short- and long-term goals of his clients. 

For more than 40 years, Mr. Pryzant has helped clients successfully navigate the M&A process, which can be one of the most complex corporate transactions for both buyers and sellers. Regardless of the transaction—whether mergers and acquisitions or equity and debt financings—he knows that the most critical part of his job is to listen to his clients and help them with their legal matters in a timely and cost-effective manner. Mr. Pryzant works with entrepreneurs who want to sell or merge their companies, and the buyers of those companies, each of whom faces their own legal challenges with the transaction.

For more than three decades as a corporate lawyer, Ms. Saxman has counseled clients—from entrepreneurs and startups to large, privately held companies across multiple industries—through every phase of growth, during times of economic prosperity and economic downturn. She prides herself on handling matters "in scale" with an eye toward practical advice that advances company objectives. Ms. Saxman works with clients in two capacities: executing deals and functioning as outside general counsel, often at the same time. Her clients benefit from this continuity of service and the institutional knowledge she develops by their side. She knows what it's like to run the business and stays in the trenches with the client after the deal is closed.