The sixth edition of this well-established book is a highly practical work for solicitors and accountants. The work adopts a practical approach, considering both the vendor and seller's perspective and provides the practitioner with a step-by-step guide to all the legal, taxation and commercial issues involved in buying and selling private companies and businesses. It includes check-lists, draft enquiries, letters of disclosure and a specimen completion agenda, together with an accompanying free disk containing all the precedents in the work.