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I do like this suggestion, but taking the comment by another user (gracefully put, "They will absolutely try to bill the fuck out of you"), I'd ask a friendly bank that has a decent M&A team. My bank I know has a bunch of relatively boilerplate slides which help with most of the aspects. You won't need to understand it comprehensively (all the legal ins-and-outs) anyway

 

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