Overview

Our mergers and acquisitions practice has the experience to handle the following transactions:

  • Mergers involving either private or public companies
  • Stock purchases and sales
  • Asset purchases and sales
  • Tender and exchange offers
  • Joint ventures and strategic alliances
  • Section 363 sales in bankruptcy proceedings
  • Spin-offs and Split-offs

Our attorneys specialize in leading our clients through the entire transaction process, including:

  • Preliminary planning for buyers, including collecting due diligence on prospective targets, strategizing offers, structuring the transaction to obtain the best business, financial and tax results, crafting indications of interest and preparing letters of intent
  • Preliminary planning for sellers, including drafting and negotiating retention agreements, reviewing engagement agreements with financial advisors, assisting with the establishment of datarooms and preparing the marketing books
  • Conducting legal due diligence (i.e., analysis of pending litigation, evaluation of environmental and regulatory compliance, evaluating employee benefit programs and employee relations)
  • Analyzing intellectual property and conducting infringement and right to use studies
  • Counseling senior management and the Board of Directors on fiduciary matters
  • Drafting and negotiating definitive transaction agreements
  • Structuring tax and finance matters
  • Analyzing human resource, labor, and ERISA matters
  • Evaluating real estate and environmental matters
  • Preparing necessary securities filings
  • Obtaining antitrust clearance