What questions should you ask when choosing a potential attorney to represent you as you move towards selling a business? It’s a big decision to make. The right attorney can make the transaction process much smoother and more successful, while the wrong one can create countless problems.

What relevant experience should your attorney have to be considered best qualified to represent you and your business through to the transaction close and beyond?

A few things to consider could be:

Relevant industry experience?

Experience handling transaction sizes similar to yours

Do they have a dedicated M&A focus and team within the practice or are they more of a generalist firm?

We asked the BizNexus community to share some of their own ideas about what to look for in an M&A attorney. See what they said below:

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