Susan Singleton is a solicitor with her own London commercial solicitor's firm, Singletons (www.singlelaw.com) which advises a large range of UK and international clients on business law with particular emphasis on litigation, competition law and IP/IT. Author of 33 law books and contributor to 49 more, she writes regularly on legal matters for a variety of publications. She is a frequent speaker having given about 1700 legal courses/lectures since 1990 in 16 countries i.e. in the UK, Austria, Belgium, Dubai, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Nigeria, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Turkey. . She publishes ten subscription legal newsletters acquired from Informa including - IT Law Today, Corporate Briefing, Pensions Today, Finance and Credit Law and International Trade Finance. She practised first at Slaughter and May and Bristows before founding her own firm in 1994. She recently sat on the Direct Marketing Authority for 5 years and was Vice Chairman of the Competition Law Association. In 2020 she was one of the Society of Computers and Law Female Tech Law Heroes. A mother of five (her daughters both qualified as solicitors in 2011/12 and two of her youngest children, twin sons are due to qualify as solicitors in 2024) in her spare time she plays the piano, sings and tends her garden. She has three grandchildren. She is past Chairman of Pinner Hill Residents Association and until recently enjoyed her own island in Panama. She can be followed on twitter at singlelaw.

It would be a very brave, very confident or very reckless lawyer who did not have this book alongside when undertaking either a sale or purchase of a private company for a client...It is a magisterial work...The ninth edition of this essential work can be unreservedly recommended.

• Part I: The Seller’s PerspectiveChapter 1: An overview of the sale processChapter 2: Assessment of marketabilityChapter 3: Preparing the saleChapter 4: MarketingChapter 5: Negotiation processPart II: The Purchaser’s PerspectiveChapter 6: An overview of the acquisition processChapter 7: Acquisition strategyChapter 8: The search processChapter 9: NegotiationChapter 10: Due DiligencePart III: The Acquisition AgreementChapter 11: General principlesChapter 12: Share purchaseChapter 13: Business transfer agreementPart IV: Post–completionChapter 14: Announcements and notificationsChapter 15: Implementing changes to the workforceChapter 16: Stamp dutyPart V: Special SituationsChapter 17: Buy-outsChapter 18: Buying and selling technology businessesPart VI: Precedents

Susan Singleton is a solicitor with her own London commercial solicitor's firm, Singletons (www.singlelaw.com) which advises a large range of UK and international clients on business law with particular emphasis on litigation, competition law and IP/IT. Author of 33 law books and contributor to 49 more, she writes regularly on legal matters for a variety of publications. She is a frequent speaker having given about 1700 legal courses/lectures since 1990 in 16 countries i.e. in the UK, Austria, Belgium, Dubai, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Nigeria, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Turkey. . She publishes ten subscription legal newsletters acquired from Informa including - IT Law Today, Corporate Briefing, Pensions Today, Finance and Credit Law and International Trade Finance. She practised first at Slaughter and May and Bristows before founding her own firm in 1994. She recently sat on the Direct Marketing Authority for 5 years and was Vice Chairman of the Competition Law Association. In 2020 she was one of the Society of Computers and Law Female Tech Law Heroes. A mother of five (her daughters both qualified as solicitors in 2011/12 and two of her youngest children, twin sons are due to qualify as solicitors in 2024) in her spare time she plays the piano, sings and tends her garden. She has three grandchildren. She is past Chairman of Pinner Hill Residents Association and until recently enjoyed her own island in Panama. She can be followed on twitter at singlelaw.

It would be a very brave, very confident or very reckless lawyer who did not have this book alongside when undertaking either a sale or purchase of a private company for a client...It is a magisterial work...The ninth edition of this essential work can be unreservedly recommended.

• Part I: The Seller’s PerspectiveChapter 1: An overview of the sale processChapter 2: Assessment of marketabilityChapter 3: Preparing the saleChapter 4: MarketingChapter 5: Negotiation processPart II: The Purchaser’s PerspectiveChapter 6: An overview of the acquisition processChapter 7: Acquisition strategyChapter 8: The search processChapter 9: NegotiationChapter 10: Due DiligencePart III: The Acquisition AgreementChapter 11: General principlesChapter 12: Share purchaseChapter 13: Business transfer agreementPart IV: Post–completionChapter 14: Announcements and notificationsChapter 15: Implementing changes to the workforceChapter 16: Stamp dutyPart V: Special SituationsChapter 17: Buy-outsChapter 18: Buying and selling technology businessesPart VI: Precedents

Susan Singleton is a solicitor with her own London commercial solicitor's firm, Singletons (www.singlelaw.com) which advises a large range of UK and international clients on business law with particular emphasis on litigation, competition law and IP/IT. Author of 33 law books and contributor to 49 more, she writes regularly on legal matters for a variety of publications. She is a frequent speaker having given about 1700 legal courses/lectures since 1990 in 16 countries i.e. in the UK, Austria, Belgium, Dubai, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Nigeria, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Turkey. . She publishes ten subscription legal newsletters acquired from Informa including - IT Law Today, Corporate Briefing, Pensions Today, Finance and Credit Law and International Trade Finance. She practised first at Slaughter and May and Bristows before founding her own firm in 1994. She recently sat on the Direct Marketing Authority for 5 years and was Vice Chairman of the Competition Law Association. In 2020 she was one of the Society of Computers and Law Female Tech Law Heroes. A mother of five (her daughters both qualified as solicitors in 2011/12 and two of her youngest children, twin sons are due to qualify as solicitors in 2024) in her spare time she plays the piano, sings and tends her garden. She has three grandchildren. She is past Chairman of Pinner Hill Residents Association and until recently enjoyed her own island in Panama. She can be followed on twitter at singlelaw.

It would be a very brave, very confident or very reckless lawyer who did not have this book alongside when undertaking either a sale or purchase of a private company for a client...It is a magisterial work...The ninth edition of this essential work can be unreservedly recommended.

• Part I: The Seller’s PerspectiveChapter 1: An overview of the sale processChapter 2: Assessment of marketabilityChapter 3: Preparing the saleChapter 4: MarketingChapter 5: Negotiation processPart II: The Purchaser’s PerspectiveChapter 6: An overview of the acquisition processChapter 7: Acquisition strategyChapter 8: The search processChapter 9: NegotiationChapter 10: Due DiligencePart III: The Acquisition AgreementChapter 11: General principlesChapter 12: Share purchaseChapter 13: Business transfer agreementPart IV: Post–completionChapter 14: Announcements and notificationsChapter 15: Implementing changes to the workforceChapter 16: Stamp dutyPart V: Special SituationsChapter 17: Buy-outsChapter 18: Buying and selling technology businessesPart VI: Precedents