A merger or large acquisition is a significant event in the life of a company and its numerous constituencies – from shareholders, directors, and managers to employees, customers, and communities. Our M&A lawyers play critical roles in how mergers and acquisitions are evaluated, structured, and implemented.
We handle intricate mergers, acquisitions, takeovers, and joint ventures of local, regional and international investments. We provide comprehensive and innovative solutions to numerous of clients across a sundry of industries, from energy, telecoms and infrastructure to financial, manufacturing, agricultural and retail industries. We derive our métier from our lawyers who specialize in legal fields such as competition, transaction and structuring, tax and intellectual property.
Our services include public acquisitions, private equity transactions, joint ventures and other investments and divestitures including public M&A, both contested and uncontested, and private M&As.
What Our M&A lawyers do
- Identify the client’s business objectives.
- Identify the legal issues –these vary depending on factors like whether the deal is friendly or unfriendly.
- Build a “road map” for the client from start to finish, and include a timeframe.
- Advise on deal and negotiating tactics.
- Conduct due diligence on other side.
- Determine – with the help of tax attorneys – the tax implications and if they require special structuring.
- Work with antitrust attorneys to assess regulatory obstacles, gain regulatory approval and analyze any other required regulatory approvals.
- If cross-border, work with local counsel. Review all the client’s contracts: business, employment, outsourcing, debt instruments, preferred stock, etc.
- Obtain third-party consents from lenders or parties to other contracts.
- Negotiate agreement, sign, announce publicly, close the deal.
- Attorneys for the target decide whether to negotiate, refuse the buyer’s overtures, sell, or do a deal with another company.
