by Andrew Cassin | Sep 3, 2014 | Blog
The importance of managing and maintaining a company’s corporate register was evinced in the final stages of a recent sale transaction, when the purchaser’s lawyers asked my client to produce his share certificates. My what? he exclaimed, seemingly...
by Andrew Cassin | Jul 14, 2014 | Blog
As we approach the conclusion of one of our cross-border transactions, it may be useful for those SME owners considering a sale to an overseas buyer to be mindful of some of the variables, pros and cons inherent in such a process. Whilst on the surface the sale...
by Andrew Cassin | Mar 3, 2014 | Blog
A business owner posed this question the other day, and it is a question that is doubtless playing on the consciousness of many. In fact, it is an oft-asked question, and one with only one really logical answer when you think about it: Yes. Now is the perfect time...
by Andrew Cassin | Dec 1, 2013 | Blog
The extent of insufficient retirement funding and poor exit/succession planning appears to have been laid bare over the past few months, with a number of studies pouring cold water on broader expectations for the retirement plans of the Baby Boomer generation. ...
by Andrew Cassin | Sep 2, 2013 | Blog
Conventional wisdom tells us that we learn more from our failures than from our successes. With this in mind, a review of failed transactions of recent years has allowed me to compile a fairly rigorous list of pitfalls that derailed business sales, so that I may...