The online legal document provider, RealDealDocs.com has released a number of Asset Purchase Agreements for the top companies in America including many Fortune 500 companies. These are the actual legal documents drafted by the nation’s top law firms.

In September of 2008, failed financial institution Lehman Brothers drafted an asset purchase agreement. Having filed bankruptcy, Lehman Brothers was one of the first financial pillars to fall in the financial crisis and heighten the economic scare that snowballed into the failing of Washington Mutual Bank. The execution copy of this Lehman Brothers legal agreement is available in its entirety on the RealDealDocs.com website.

An Asset Purchase Agreement is a legal document involved in the purchase of all or some of the assets of one entity by another.

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The contracts, agreements and clauses available at RealDealDocs.com are the actual legal documents used by both the smallest of small capital companies as well as Fortune 500 companies alike.

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Merrill Lynch Purchase Agreement Released by Legal Insider

The Purchase Agreement for Merrill Lynch was made available today by online legal document provider RealDealDocs.com.

The Merrill Lynch Purchase Agreement was drafted in 2006 in order to facilitate the purchase of $20,000,000 worth of preferred securities from Deerfield TriArc Capital Corporation. That year also saw the drafting of another Merrill Lynch Purchase Agreement with now-troubled corporation Lehman Brothers as underwriters.

A Purchase Agreement is a legal document for the purchase and sale in which a seller agrees to sell and a buyer agrees to buy within specific terms and conditions.

RealDealDocs.com is the online legal document resource preferred by lawyers, deal professionals and entrepreneurs. The powerful search functionality is easy to use which is just one of the reasons 40 of the top 200 law firms in the world use it.

The contracts, agreements and clauses available at RealDealDocs.com are the actual legal documents used by both the smallest of small capital companies as well as Fortune 500 companies alike. The legal documents at RealDealDocs.com have been drafted by the nation’s top law firms for some of the top companies in America.
RealDealDocs.com helps to cut drafting time in half and provides unprecedented insight into the deal structures of the world’s largest companies. The legal documents may be searched for by category, law firm, parties involved or by the state of the governing law. Visitors can search the extensive RealDealDocs.com database absolutely free and members of the site may also download, copy, edit and print unlimited legal documents for their own personal or business use. Visit RealDealDocs.com for more information, membership options, and free legal document searches.

RealDealDocs.com is a division of Practice Technologies, Inc. the creators of SmartRules.com, the first online practice guide for the national litigator and the national litigation practice.

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The demise of Wall Street’s top players has been a major gain for some law firms. As they say, one person’s trash is another person’s treasure. Hughes Hubbard & Reed has its 12 bankruptcy lawyers busy, busy, busy handling the mess after the meltdown. The firm has boomed the practice group by two-thirds with the timely acquisition of a bankruptcy creditors’ rights and finance boutique, Luskin, Stern & Eisler.

Joining Hughes Hubbard are partners Nathan Eisler, Michael Luskin, and Richard Stern. And the main cause behind all the big changes came after the Lehan Brothers empire came crumbling down.

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Wall Street continues to be the hot topic of the week as lawsuit buzz is flying high. However, plaintiffs who have filed shareholder lawsuits against the most prominent financial firms may come to a halt indefinitely. Companies such as Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., the $85 billion loan to American International Group Inc. and the bailout of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. (Freddie Mac) and the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), have put a temporary freeze on the dozens of shareholder lawsuits filed against them.

Securities fraud and breach of fiduciary duties are the drive behind suits against the big guns who went off for the last time. However, many defense attorneys anticipate that “plaintiffs could have a difficult time blaming specific companies and their individual directors and officers for what could be interpreted as uncontrollable economic forces that caused the unprecedented collapse of so many firms.” Attorneys also warn that shareholder suits going up against Enron Corp. will face the most difficult time.

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Trouble continues to escalate for Lehman Bros. who are now being accused of giving bonuses, which were fraudulent transfers made by an ailing company to their execs. Shocker in the world of Wall Street, I know. According to lawyers, bankruptcy claims involving fraudulent transfers made during a certain period of time before a bankruptcy but while a company was insolvent are relatively common in bankruptcy. Bonuses made my Lehman equal $5.7 billion at the end of 2007, according to Bloomberg News.

“When significant payments [are made] to insiders within a year of the filing, it’s heavily scrutinized,” said Steve Jakubowski of the Coleman Law Firm in Chicago.

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