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A Purchase. A Private Equity Recapitalization. A Sale. Boston Herald Owner Pat Purcell and his advisors Paul Hartnett, formerly at Brown Rudnick and Michael Cronin, Founder of Weston Presidio discussed their journey through the purchase of Community Newspapers, the private equity recapitalization and the subsequent sale of Community Newspapers.

XPX Global has just released its Annual Report for 2015. It includes an overview of where we are today and our goals for the future.  2015 accomplishments include: Wild Apricot conversion New website Launch of XPX Maryland Updated contracts Manual HInge study Goals for 2016 include: New chapter growth Social and thought leader outreach Scalable…

The XPX Marketplace is an open resource available to advisors and owners. There are three different directories in the Marketplace: Advisors – Drawn from XPX members across all our chapters Sponsors – Includes premium sponsors to XPX Chapters Tools – Features certification, training and tool companies that support the private company market. We are especially…

In this week’s video, M&A attorney Joe Marrow discusses earn-outs. When buyer and seller can’t agree on a price, an earn-out is an effort to bridge that gap. An earn-out mechanism allows the seller to realize more consideration in the transaction post-closing and increase the purchase price. A buyer will require a seller to set aside — or hold…

In this week’s video, M&A attorney Scott Bleier explains why working capital is a vital piece of the M&A transaction. What is working capital? In its simplest definition, working capital is current assets over current liabilities. Buyers want to buy a business with enough working capital to keep this going without an immediate need for a cash infusion. Sellers,…

XPX is the only open advisor network in the private company/business value transfer market. This means that we do not advocate a single approach or vendor. Instead, we endeavor to be a place where all advisors, owners and vendors can interact and collaborate. We walk our talk with our New Website where we feature: Marketplaces…

In this week’s video, M&A Attorney Joe Marrow covers escrow (or a hold back) which is common in most merger and acquisition transactions. Essentially, the buyer requires the seller to hold back, or set aside, a certain amount of purchase price funds to satisfy any post-closing claims. Our Boston-area M&A attorneys can help to negotiate how much money such be…