Succession planning – Will your buy-sell agreement work when you need it?

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Abstract: To ensure a smooth ownership and management transition from one generation to the next, all closely held construction companies should have a succession plan. And a key component of that plan is a buy-sell agreement, which provides for the orderly transfer of ownership and control and creates a market for otherwise unmarketable ownership interests. However, as this article explains, a buy-sell agreement should have a carefully designed — and current — valuation provision, which sets the purchase price for a departing owner’s shares.