Mergers and Acquisitions

Lawyers in our mergers and acquisitions practice have extensive experience in the full range of sophisticated merger and acquisition transactions ranging in size from a few million to billions of dollars, including:

• public company mergers, acquisitions and tender and exchange offers
• spin-offs
• stock and asset acquisitions and divestitures of privately owned companies and divisions and subsidiaries of public companies
• private equity and leveraged buyout transactions
• going private transactions
• joint ventures and other alliances
• cross-border M&A transactions
• bankruptcy-related acquisitions and divestitures

Team

We have more than 100 attorneys worldwide with substantial experience in merger and acquisition transactions. Our M&A attorneys combine their expertise with lawyers in our tax, antitrust and trade regulation, capital markets, corporate governance, securities compliance, project finance, environmental, executive compensation and employee benefits, finance, intellectual property, litigation, real estate, securities litigation and regulatory enforcement, bankruptcy and financial restructuring, private funds and other practice areas to advise our clients on a wide range of complex issues that can arise in merger and acquisition transactions. Many members of our team participate in M&A and other conferences in the U.S. and abroad, and publish related articles in established business and legal journals. We pride ourselves on being accessible, creative, efficient, pragmatic and responsive in helping our clients achieve their M&A objectives.

Clients

Chadbourne lawyers represent all the key players in M&A transactions, including strategic and financial buyers, targets, private equity investors and leveraged buyout groups, independent board committees, financial advisors and financial institutions providing debt and equity acquisition financing. We have regularly represented multinational companies in connection with business acquisitions and dispositions around the world. Our M&A lawyers regularly work with the Firm's private funds practice to advise clients with respect to structuring and financing acquisitions of businesses on behalf of private equity funds.

Industry Expertise

We offer our M&A clients in-depth understanding and expertise in every major industry, with particular depth in aerospace and defense, communications and technology, consumer products, energy, insurance and reinsurance, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and transportation.

Geographic Scope

Our M&A practice is global, with both domestic and cross-border M&A transactions run from our offices in New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, London, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Warsaw, Kyiv, Almaty, Dubai and Beijing.