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May 31, 2011
Teaching Buy sell Agreements
Once again I am coming to the masses to see if you have any thoughts or suggestions about teaching Buy-Sell Agreements to students. I curently have students in my Unincorporated Business Associations class negotiate and draft portions of a Buy-Sell agreement as one of three negotiated drafting exercises that they do. (If anyone is interested, you can Download Buy Out Agreement Drafting Exercise: it contains common facts, a balance sheet, a sample agreement and then secret facts for each client). I have been thinking about how to approach teaching what is a fun, but complex tool. (Also I just wrote a short article on buy-sell agreements, which I will link to when ready to go.) With this on my mind, I am curious to know the following:
(1) do you teach buy-sell agreements? if so, in what class?
(2) how do you teach buy-sell agreements? lecture, drafting, traditional cases, or supplemental "business" reading?
(3) does anyone have a citation for a great case that is illustrative of the purpose, pitfalls, or components of a buy-sell agreement?
There have been 3 cases reported in federal courts in 2011, about 9 federal cases in 2010 and a handful of Delaware cases since 2000. The search results lists are available to Download Buy-Sell federal litigation and Download Delaware Buy-Sell Agreement cases.
The most accessible (to students) description of buy-sell agreements that I have found is in Dwight Drake's Business Planning: Closely Held Entities book.
Anne Tucker
May 31, 2011 | Permalink
