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MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
The firm's lawyers provide counsel and assistance to businesses, small and large, in the areas of mergers and acquisitions. These complex and time-intensive transactions require expertise from several practice areas. To address these needs a legal team is established and led by experienced merger and acquisition counsel to help clients identify and utilize innovative solutions to meet their needs. Our lawyers assist our clients in handling corporate, securities and tax aspects of merger and acquisition transactions on behalf of privately held and public companies.
Our experience includes stock and asset purchases and sales and mergers. We have broad experience in transactions involving many industries and types of companie, both U.S. and foreign, so we can help use relevant experience and knowledge of industry practices to benefit our clients.
Attorneys with the firm represent buyers and sellers, as well as other parties to transactions, such as investment bankers. Our merger and acquisition lawyers regularly provide guidance to clients throughout all phases of a merger or acquisition transaction, from early evaluation of a transaction, through due diligence, negotiation, documentation and closing of the deal, as well as in integration of the acquired company, employees and assets into their organization. We prepare letters of intent, acquisition, merger, confidentiality, standstill and similar agreements, financing documents, proxy statements, and legal opinions. Our lawyers advise on the tax, securities law, corporate governance, employment, employee benefits, real estate, environmental, financing and other aspects of transactions.
Our merger and acquisition attorneys can also assist companies in implementing measures to defend against unwanted acquisitions or to protect their interests in the event of a change-in-control. We also counsel boards and senior management on their legal and fiduciary duties in responding to potential transactions and implementing appropriate measures.
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