The right attorney gets your deal across the table. The wrong one can blow it up, or quietly take over your roll-up. M&A attorney Mick McGirr has seen both.

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On the CEO Roundtable, Sam Taggart and JD Beck sit down with M&A attorney Mick McGirr, who has handled roughly $750 million in transactions since 2020 on both the buy and sell side. Mick explains what a transactional attorney actually does, offense and defense, why you can't close a deal without one, and how a bad one can drive owners apart and even kill a deal. He also breaks down the value of keeping law, tax, accounting, financial, and insurance advice under one roof, and the creative tax questions behind structuring an unconventional cashless roll-up.

Mick McGirr is an M&A attorney with Focus Law, part of a combined professional-services group spanning law, tax and accounting, financial, and insurance. A BYU and Georgetown Law graduate practicing since 2012, he has handled roughly $750 million in transactions over the last five years, on deals ranging from about a million dollars to a quarter billion.

Questions this episode answers:

• What does an M&A attorney do in a business sale?
• Do you actually need a lawyer to sell your company?
• How can an attorney kill a deal?
• Why keep legal, tax, and accounting under one roof?
• How do you structure a cashless roll-up?

What you'll learn in this episode:

• What a transactional attorney really does: drafting, offense, and defense
• How a bad attorney can drive owners apart and blow up a deal
• Why you can't get a deal done without legal, and how to pick the right one
• The advantage of law, tax, accounting, financial, and insurance under one roof
• The tax puzzle behind structuring an unconventional cashless roll-up

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