Ann: Trading Halt, page-118

No. There is a heck of a lot involved in negotiating and selling a company. Even when the sale targets are known the negotiation process is critical should be handled by a team who know how to maximise the net outcome and contain the claw-back clauses, and has learned from prior experience. This is not the job of a tech lab but the job of a team of lawyers, accountants and experienced negotiators - whether you sell the company or the IP or create a sales vehicle specifically for the sale. Even the question of which jurisdiction you do the sale can be critical to the tax implications, and protection of the IP, and thus the ultimate return.

It can rapidly turn into a royal mess if not handled with some level of expertise. The buyer will be looking to acquire all the benefits at the lowest effective price while transferring as much risk back to the seller as possible. That is why from the seller's perspective it might be better to transfer the entire company, which will require due diligence to be undertaken, which also allows the buyer to pay in their own shares, which will likely have escrow agreements to be negotiated if not an on-market takeover, etc.

Very much non trivial when talking the sums of money being bandied about here.