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Originally Posted by you&me
This might be obvious, but are you familiar with their product and the market in which it's applicable?
I would think a software business, in which some employees won't be sticking around could be a real hornets nest if you don't REALLY know what you're doing... And when you say "some" employees, how many is that? What about the others? Of the ones that are confirmed to be leaving, who are they and what do they do? What terms are they leaving on? Do they have a non-compete? It would suck to have a group of decade long employees leaving the company you've just bought to start a competitor...
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This is vital, a faction of the employees breaking off to start a competitor can easily take a large portion of your customer base with them. IT/Software customers tend to be pretty loyal to their service reps when the Support is good (and will drop you on a dime if they're feeling neglected, which can happen pretty quickly if you're losing experienced staff and trying to train up new ones)