We have a comprehensive mergers & acquisitions practice representing buyers and sellers in both public and private company strategic transactions, as well as financial sponsor transactions. We have served as lead counsel in more than 300 transactions ranging in size from $20 million to more than $15 billion in the last four years.
In recent years, our corporate M&A practice has been recognized by The M&A Advisor with a M&A Deal of the Year award in the following categories:
Additionally, the firm was recognized as a finalist in four different categories in 2015.
Our mergers & acquisitions experience spans most major industries and most major markets. Services we provide include:
- Advising public and private companies, boards of directors and special committees on legal issues related to the consideration of strategic alternatives.
- Advising private equity firms and their platform companies in connection with mergers and acquisitions and financing activities.
- Negotiating mergers, tender offers and stock and asset purchases and divestitures (both tax-free and taxable).
- Structuring spinoffs and recapitalizations, management buyouts and other going-private transactions.
- Counseling directors on hostile transactions and takeover preparedness, including shareholder rights plans and change of control agreements.
- Executing cross-border M&A transactions for multi-national clients in conjunction with our globally recognized international referral network, Lex Mundi.
Attorneys from our other practice groups are routinely involved in our M&A engagements to provide clients a full range of service in due diligence, risk analysis, tax structuring, employee benefits, executive compensation, real estate, environmental and intellectual property.
Our corporate M&A practice consists of more than 85 M&A attorneys, including nearly 40 experienced partners and a large group of talented and dedicated associates. The firm's M&A attorneys are heavily involved with the American Bar Association, for example one of our partners previously chaired the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association (ABA), another served as a past Chair of the ABA Business Law Section's Mergers and Acquisitions Committee, and one of our M&A attorneys previously served as editor of the ABA's Deal Points publication. Our attorneys bring a practical, creative, and business-minded approach to an increasingly complex M&A environment, with an emphasis on project management, cost efficient staffing and client-driven results.
