Sarah Payne and Melissa Sawyer participated in PLI’s Acquiring or Selling the Privately Held Company 2018 conference. Each led a session titled “Structuring and Negotiating Earn-Outs,” which addressed the challenges in the context of structuring and drafting contingent consideration, or earn-out, arrangements in a transaction, among other topics. Sarah led the session at the San Francisco installment of the seminar on May 17, and Melissa led the session at the New York City installment on June 20.