An agreement for the sale and purchase of shares in a private company.
In drafting this agreement, there are variations depending various factors/nature of the transaction such as:
- single corporate seller
- muiltiple individual sellers
- mulitiple sellers (coporate and/or individual, as the case may be)
- intra-group reorganisations
- international acquisitions (cross-border private company)
- acquisiton of a group
- single target company
- whether exchange and completion are simultaneous or not
- auction sales