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Selling a company for an earnout structure? [closed]

I have to be very cagey here as I'm under confidentiality, hence the throwaway account -- my apologies. OK so I run a startup in a specific industry vertical. Big Player X in that vertical approached ...
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deferred sales trust (DST) — guarantee long-term capital gains on entity sale?

Can a deferred sales trust (DST) be used to effectively convert a short-term capital gains entity sale into long-term capital gains income? For example, suppose I create a small company on 1/1/2011, ...
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example company timeline & determining capital gains basis date

Looking at a hypothetical company timeline (corporation), what is the capital gains tax to shareholders upon entity sale? (aka, how is the basis date computed)? Start date (1st effort of ...
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Time and money for early-stage merger (or acqusition) of companies?

How much time and money does an early stage merger take? I have an unfunded startup. I am talking to a company that has completed their Round A. It seems like they might want to acquire / merge with ...