If you own all or part of a business--any business--you should know about buy-sell agreements. Unless you plan to be lucky forever, you’d better have one. Without it, a closely held or family ...

Buy-sell or buyout agreements establish future control decisions and are between partners, a business and its shareholders, the owner and other family members, or the owner and key employees.

Buy-sell agreements can vary depending on the business owners' needs and the state’s statute for buy-sell agreements. Generally, they should include the following information: ...

Redemption vs. cross-purchase agreements. A buy-sell agreement can be structured as aredemption agreementor across-purchase agreement. In some cases, the agreement might be a hybrid of the two. Under ...

An entity-purchase agreement is a type of business succession plan used by companies that have more than one owner. Often, the company will take out an insurance policy on each of its partners in ...

After a triggering event occurs, the buyout agreement controls how the shareholder's stock in the corporation is purchased. The agreement should state who has the right to purchase the stock ...

Andrew Rinn. First, a quick overview of the arrangement addressed in Connelly. Entity purchase stock redemption buy-sell agreements often rely on life insurance policies to provide the instant ...