Altum Legal

Selling your company, acquiring another, or spinning out a line of business are some of the highest-impact decisions you will make. These transactions reshape ownership, control, risk, and your own next chapter. Altum advises founders and companies on both buy-side and sell-side deals, from acquihires to strategic exits. We guide you through strategy, diligence, negotiation, structuring, and regulatory considerations so the transaction supports your business and personal goals instead of pulling you away from them.

M&A is complex even for experienced teams. Parties rush into letters of intent without understanding structure, lock-ups, or key terms. Diligence uncovers issues in cap tables, IP, contracts, equity awards, and compliance. Drafts of definitive agreements pile up, full of dense provisions on earn-outs, escrows, indemnities, and post-closing covenants. Regulatory constraints, data and IP rules, or key customer contracts can suddenly dictate terms and timing.

Altum provides clear, experienced counsel across the life of the deal. We help you decide whether and how to engage, understand what is “market” for your situation, preserve optionality, and structure and negotiate a transaction that you and your stakeholders can live with after closing.

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What We Do:

Early-stage M&A strategy and readiness counseling, including how your cap table, IP, commercial contracts, equity plans, and governance will appear in buyer or seller diligence.
Advice on transaction structure (stock vs asset deals, mergers, acquihires, partial sales, roll-ups), with coordination alongside tax and financial advisors on economic and tax implications.
Review, negotiation, and drafting of letters of intent and term sheets, focusing on price mechanisms, structure, exclusivity, key conditions, and the practical impact of proposed terms.
Management and coordination of legal diligence (and responses to it), with emphasis on IP, data, key customer and vendor contracts, equity and incentives, and regulatory issues common in frontier-tech deals.
Drafting and negotiation of definitive agreements, including purchase or merger agreements, disclosure schedules, ancillary IP and technology transfer documents, employment and retention agreements, and transition or services arrangements.
Guidance on regulatory and compliance aspects relevant to the transaction, such as securities rules, privacy and data restrictions, sector-specific requirements, and foreign ownership considerations, with specialist input where deeper analysis is needed.
Advice on treatment of founders, executives, and key employees, including rollover equity, retention packages, non-competes, and post-closing roles.
Support for board and investor processes, including approvals, conflicts, and high-level communications planning.
Assistance through closing and post-closing matters, including consents, holdbacks, earn-out mechanics, and any ongoing commercial or governance relationships between the parties.

Benefits:

You enter discussions with a grounded view of valuation, structure options, and key terms, not just a headline price.
Diligence surfaces issues early, with a plan to address them instead of letting them derail or discount the deal.
Deal structure (asset vs stock, merger, acquihire, carve-out, roll-up) is chosen with tax, liability, people, and integration in mind.
Risk allocation through representations, warranties, covenants, escrows, and earn-outs is calibrated to your business and negotiating leverage.
Board, investor, and key third-party consents and regulatory requirements are identified and managed instead of emerging as last-minute surprises.
The process is controlled and not distracting, so leadership can continue running the business while the transaction moves forward.

Turn strategic opportunities into transactions that advance your long-term goals.

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