This guide is designed to quickly walk you through the decision to make an asset purchase vs stock purchase. When a business is bought or sold the buyers and sellers have a choice to make. Should they structure the deal as a purchase and sale of assets, or a purchase and sale of common stock.

This guide is designed to explain the process more generally, and we have two additional guides aimed at explaining the process more granularly, distinguishing between the buy-side and sell-side processes.