Orrick's Richard Vernon Smith co-authored an article in Forbes with Richard Harroch, an Orrick alum now serving as a Managing Director and Global Head of M&A at VantagePoint Capital Partners, and David Lipkin, a partner at McDermott, Will and Emery, that provides a number of key lessons learned from M&A transactions involving the sale of private companies.

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