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One More Thing To Check.
When a company enters into a buy/sell agreement, there is always a fair amount of due diligence that goes on prior to finalizing the deal. In the labor and employment arena, those due diligence questions include some obvious ones, such as any outstanding litigation or EEOC charges, and – in the case of a purchase of a unionized company – whether or not there are any pending grievances under a collective bargaining agreement.
Watch Out for Labor/Employment Issues in Acquisitions (pdf).
This article is the second part of a two-part article
addressing labor and employment related issues
that may arise during a merger or acquisition.
As noted in part one of this article, which appeared in
the February 2006 issue of Management Update, in
2005 there were 28% more mergers and acquisitions
in the United States than there were in 2004. Experts
predict that this trend will continue in 2006, which
may even be a record year for M&A activity.
Watch Out for Labor/Employment Issues in Acquisitions (pdf).
There were 28% more mergers and acquisitions
in the United States in 2005 than in 2004.
In fact, 2005 closed out as the best year for
mergers and acquisitions since 2000, and experts
predict this trend will continue in 2006.
