Before You Sign is a weekly briefing for buyers, founders, sellers, and lower middle market operators on the legal, tax, financial, and structural choices that can make, save, or quietly cost you money.
One consequential question each week. Clear enough to use. Sophisticated enough to change the deal.
Written by Langston A. Tolbert, a corporate and M&A attorney advising founder led and lower middle market companies.
See which terms become difficult to change once the deal moves forward.
Understand how tax, structure, control, and risk allocation change what the deal is actually worth.
Each issue gives you a question, framework, or move you can use before you sign.
The expensive part of a deal is not always the fee. Sometimes it is the decision you did not know you were making.