Small Business Contracts

Buy-Sell Agreement

What happens to an owner's shares or units on death, disability, departure or divorce.

What you get

  • An editable Word document, drafted from your answers and the state's official text.
  • A proof of sources: every citation in the draft with the words it quotes, the official source, the date the text was saved and its fingerprint.
  • Notes for counsel listing each point marked [VERIFY], each blank and each choice left for the client.

What the intake asks

Plain questions, in the order an attorney would take the facts. Anything left blank stays a marked blank in the draft; nothing is invented to fill it.

The company and its owners

  • The company is a
  • Company's legal name
  • Company details
  • Owners

The buyout

  • Triggering events
  • Who buys
  • Purchase price
  • Payment terms
  • Funding
  • Insurance details

Terms

  • Transfer restrictions
  • Disability definition
  • Closing
  • Related covenants

Signing

  • How will this be signed
  • Other instructions or open decisions

Where it is offered

Every state Lawsmith has official sources for:

Official sources on file

The drafter works from the texts Lawsmith has saved for this document in the state you choose, plus federal law where it applies. Each is read from the official publisher and dated.

StateSources for this document
California56
Connecticut54
Delaware67
District of Columbia58
Florida64
Maryland53
Massachusetts60
New Jersey58
New York63
Ohio42
Pennsylvania55
Texas84
Virginia53

Among them, for New Jersey:

  • N.J.S.A. 2A:14-1: 6 years
  • N.J.S.A. 12A:8-204 Effect of Issuer's Restriction on Transfer.
  • N.J.S.A. 14A:5-21 Agreements as to voting; provision in certificate of incorporation as to control of directors
  • N.J.S.A. 14A:7-12 Transfer of shares and restrictions on transfer
  • N.J.S.A. 17B:24-1.1 Insurable interests

How the draft is checked

Before it writes, the drafter must quote the official text behind each citation. Lawsmith compares every quotation with the text on file, character for character; a citation with no checked quotation reaches you marked [VERIFY]. The draft still needs your review before it is signed, filed or sent. How citations are checked

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