Lowis & Gellen Attorney to be Panelist at CBA Business Acquisition Seminar

Robert Leavitt, a member of Lowis & Gellen’s Corporate Practice Group, will be participating as a panelist in the Chicago Bar Association seminar, Negotiating The Asset Purchase Agreement For The Sale Of A Business. The seminar will be held on February 8, 2007, at the CBA’s headquarters at 321 S. Plymouth Court, from 3 pm to 6 pm.

The seminar is about how to successfully negotiate an Asset Purchase Agreement for a client who is selling or buying a business. Mr. Leavitt and five other panelists will conduct an improvised mock negotiation using a hypothetical sale of a privately-held business. In the course of three hours, the seminar will highlight the key issues commonly raised during such a negotiation and practical ways to resolve them.

Lowis & Gellen’s Corporate Practice Group represents public and private companies in connection with a wide variety of transactions, including mergers, stock purchases and asset acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts, restructurings and other transactions involving changes in corporate control. For more information on the CBA seminar or Lowis & Gellen’s Corporate Practice Group, please contact Robert Leavitt at rleavitt@lowis-gellen.com or (312) 628-7199.