Mergers & Acquisitions
Mergers & Acquisitions Solutions:
We represent M&A Purchasers, or Acquirors, and Sellers, or Targets, in:
- Public and Private Target Company Mergers & Acquisitions
- Private Equity and other Financial Acquisitions
- Strategic Acquisitions between Vertically Integrated Companies and Horizontal Competitors
- Divestitures, Spin-Offs and Going Private Transactions
- Management and Control Group Buyouts
- SPAC (“Special Purpose Acquisition Companies”) Business Combinations (“De-SPAC’ing Transactions”)
- Restructuring and Recapitalization Transactions
- Bankruptcy and Distressed Assets Acquisitions
- Board and Officers Counseling
- Shareholder and Creditor Rights Counseling
- Antitrust, Tax and Industry-Specific Regulatory Issues Affecting Transactions
- Foreign Investment, Technology Export, Foreign Ownership and OFAC Sanctions Issues Affecting Transactions
Mergers & Acquisitions Representative Transactions
Mergers & Acquisitions Whitepapers and Advisories:
Mergers & Acquisitions: Deal Points Series
Mergers & Acquisitions I: Overview and Transaction Types: Deal Points
Mergers & Acquisitions II: Tax Structuring Considerations: Deal Points
Mergers & Acquisitions III: Acquisition Consideration: Deal Points
Mergers & Acquisitions IV: Preliminary Documentation: Deal Points
Mergers & Acquisitions V: Stock Purchase Transactions: Deal Points
Mergers & Acquisitions VI: Asset Purchase Transactions: Deal Points
Mergers & Acquisitions VII: Mergers: Deal Points
Mergers & Acquisitions VIII: Antitrust Merger Control & Clearance: Deal Points
Mergers & Acquisitions IX: Intellectual Property Issues: Deal Points
Mergers & Acquisitions X: Financing M&A: Deal Points
Mergers & Acquisitions XI: Public M&A: Deal Points
Other Mergers & Acquisitions Whitepapers and Advisories
Mergers & Acquisitions: FTC Announces 2024 Hart-Scott-Rodino Reporting Thresholds
FTC and DoJ Issue New Merger Guidelines (January 2024)
FTC and DoJ Issue Proposed New Merger Guidelines (July 2023)
FTC Issues Rulemaking for Major Revision of Hart-Scott-Rodino M&A Reporting Obligations (July 2023)
Court Rejects FTC Attempt to Block Microsoft-Activision Blizzard Acquisition (July 2023)
UK Competition and Markets Authority Blocks Microsoft-Activision Blizzard Acquisition (April 2023)
CFIUS-FIRRMA Foreign Investment Rules Impact Cross-Border Deals (April 2023)
FTC Sues Microsoft to Block $69 Billion Activision Blizzard Acquisition
U.K. Competition Authority Launches Phase 2 Review of Viasat-Inmarsat Merger
FTC Sues Facebook Parent Meta to Block Virtual Reality Acquisition
Eutelsat and OneWeb Agree to $3.4 Billion Merger
Musk Pulls Out of Twitter Deal
DoJ Sues to Block Acquisition of Defense/Intelligence Contractor
Twitter Counters Elon Musk Takeover Offer with a Poison Pill
SEC Proposes Rule Amendments to Modernize Beneficial Ownership Reporting
FTC and DoJ Launch Effort to Restrict Anticompetitive Mergers
FTC Restores Restrictive Prior Approval Merger Review Policy
FTC Sets Ambitious M&A Enforcement Agenda
FTC Warns on Use of Debt Retirement to Avoid HSR Filings
U.S. Communications Law and Transactions