Structuring
When you hear about large businesses selling for billions of dollars there is an excitement in your brain “maybe I can sell too”. What you don’t hear is how it is done. It is rarely if ever that the seller gets those billions of dollars transferred into their bank account on settlement. First of all, it wouldn’t be a smart way to reduce tax and costs plus in many cases no cash is transferred at all. Instead it is negotiated as a mixture of assets and agreements .