Mergers and Acquisitions

Our firm's merger and acquisition practice includes tender offers, mergers, strategic and minority investments, recapitalizations, and leveraged buyouts. Our firm has extensive experience advising boards of directors in M&A transactions and representing special committees in transactions involving affiliates.

Our Mergers & Acquisitions Attorneys have an extensive practice in the acquisition, sale, reorganization, and restructuring of corporations, partnerships and other business entities. These transactions deal with fundamental changes in business ownership. They often involve debt or equity financing and structural changes to an existing business entity or the formation of a new entity. Completion of these transactions frequently requires regulatory filings, such as filings with state agencies or the Securities and Exchange Commission, or rulings from the Internal Revenue Service.

We provide representation in connection with public and private acquisitions and divestitures, including asset transfers, stock transfers and mergers, as well as joint ventures and strategic alliance transactions. We have substantial experience in all aspects of the transactional cycle, from structuring and due diligence through the negotiation of the acquisition or joint venture agreement and related financing arrangements. We also advise issuers regarding takeover defensive measures, including poison pills and other devices intended to permit judicious responses to acquisition overtures and shareholder proposals.

Members of our mergers & acquisitions practice group are able to utilize attorneys from all of our practice areas to provide the tax, real estate, environmental, labor, employee relations, antitrust, financing, securities, and regulatory expertise necessary to structure and close successfully these types of sophisticated and complex transactions.

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