Business Law
Nov. 5, 2026
Cross-border deal risks and purchase agreement protections
Cross-border deals can unravel over payment problems, regulatory delays and ownership disputes, making carefully drafted purchase agreements and workable closing procedures essential to avoiding costly surprises.
Consider a California company buying an overseas business. The parties have agreed on a price, but the escrow bank rejects the payment instructions, a regulatory filing delays closing, or a contractor claims ownership of essential software. In each hypothetical, a covenant in the purchase agreement may be of little use unless someone has worked out how to perform it.
For California counsel handling these deals occasionally, the task is to turn each material obligation into a closin...
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