In high-stakes transactions, you want everything to come together smoothly
From closely held entities to international Fortune 500 corporations, clients of all types benefit from our experience in acquisitions and dispositions of business interests. With an eye to legal, tax, and practical considerations, we handle taxable and non-taxable statutory mergers, consolidations or share exchanges, asset transfers, stock transfers, joint ventures (in the form of a corporation, partnership, or limited liability company), and privatizations.
Our lawyers have extensive experience with leveraged buyouts and the purchase and sale of financially troubled companies. To ensure a thorough due diligence process, both in the acquisition and disposition context, we advise purchasers on how to respond to due diligence requests. We help identify potential successor liability issues involving pension and other employee benefit plans, environmental matters, product liability, intellectual property matters, labor, equal employment opportunity, and immigration matters.
In addition, we analyze the applicability of antitrust laws to a transaction, prepare any required filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, and coordinate compliance with any state law requirements. Our team also advises on the applicability and compliance with federal and state securities laws, state corporate law considerations, and laws regulating foreign investment or ownership.
All of this results in transactions that fulfill the intentions of the parties and proceed in the smoothest and most efficient manner possible.
