Mergers and acquisitions represent a significant part of our business practice. Our M&A team represents buyers and sellers, and management and investors, in all types and sizes of transactions, including mergers, stock sales, tender offers, sales of assets, spin-offs, roll-ups, corporate reorganizations and restructurings, joint ventures and partnerships. Our team is experienced in structuring and negotiating these transactions, performing due diligence investigations, identifying and satisfying regulatory requirements and seeing the transaction through to completion. We represent a wide variety of clients in M&A transactions, including both public and private companies, as well as clients in highly regulated industries such as the financial institution and healthcare industries.

We help clients adopt and implement acquisition and anti-takeover strategies, and advise management in the strategic planning process and defending against takeover attempts, including the use of shareholder rights plans or poison pills. We routinely advise boards of directors about their fiduciary duties and the protections available against personal liability in the context of pursuing an M&A transaction or working out of financial difficulties. Our team also represents executives in M&A transactions and advises them on compensation and benefit issues in the context of those transactions, including golden parachute and deferred compensation concerns.

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