I know the general risks of both and why a buyer/seller would want one over the other but as a buyer, is there anything that would stand out in a business that would convince you that a share purchase if the better way to go? Currently working on a transaction sub $500k and it seems pretty straightforward. General DD of financials has already been completed and things check out.
Thanks in advance of your opinion!
Asset purchase or Share Purchase?

by a searcher from Baruch College-The City University of New York - The Zicklin School of Business
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Also just to be clear you can't buy a company's stock and just take over payment of its EIDL loan without the SBA's consent. Lots of people seem to be under the impression that a stock deal solves that problem - it doesn't.
Rather than the time involved for contracts, and those hoops, and reregistering in all of those states, a share purchase was the way to go.
These days, I also look at partial acquisitions, or equity positions, so there is that too.