Our team of lawyers and advisors has a reputation for its ability to plan, negotiate and close highly sophisticated transactions, representing public and private companies and venture capital investors in mergers and acquisitions, spin-off, split-off, and private equity transactions.
The members of the Corporate & M&A practice plan, structure, negotiate and implement numerous forms of business transactions, combinations and financings for U.S. and non-U.S. clients. A sampling of matters handled includes tax-free and taxable reorganizations, spin-offs, acquisitions, dispositions, internal reorganizations, hybrid financings, and international joint ventures.
Our mergers and acquisitions practice include negotiated and contested mergers and acquisitions; sales and purchases of assets, subsidiaries and divisions; election contests and dissident shareholder proposals; tender and exchange offers; going-private transactions; MBOs; spin-offs; anti-takeover defenses and initiatives; special committee, fairness opinion and corporate governance matters; and related transactional and M&A advisory engagements.
Our attorneys represent buyers, sellers, investors, shareholders, boards of directors and special committees, financial advisors and investment banks, broker-dealers and lenders for large, mid and small cap companies, as well as privately held businesses.
Our Corporate and M&A team is vastly experienced in assisting, negotiating and completing private equity and venture capital investments, secured finance transactions as well debt restructurings.
Additionally or corporate attorneys advise on all matters relating to corporate governance, including capital restructuring and deal with virtually all aspects of business relations and in particular with negotiating, drafting and advising on a broad range of commercial agreements, including distribution, agency, franchise agreements and commercial joint ventures and competition matters.