Top 10 Practice Tips: Stock Repurchase Programs

This practice note includes 10 practice tips that may help you, as counsel to a public company or a repurchase agent, in implementing a stock repurchase program on behalf of your client. A stock repurchase program enables a company to buy back a certain number of its outstanding securities. In recent years, the repurchase activity undertaken by US public companies has significantly increased, in part as a result of the tax reforms implemented in 2018.