Stock Sale vs. Asset Sale

Corporation sales can be in the form of a stock sale or an asset sale. In a stock sale the new owner(s) purchase the stock of the selling owner(s), and the entity remains intact from an operational, liability, and taxation standpoint. In an asset sale it is common for the business sellers to wind down the sold business, and for the business buyers to form a new entity or merge the assets into an existing [ . . . ]