Mergers & Acquisitions

EM³'s M&A practice regularly advises clients on the full spectrum of merger and acquisition deal structures, including complex mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, rollups, and other strategic transactions. The Firm represents clients of all sizes, including buyers, sellers, and professional advisors, in transactions including asset acquisitions, equity purchases and sales, joint ventures, controlling and minority investments, divestitures, and spin-offs. The team works with smaller companies making their first acquisition and middle-market companies looking to achieve strategic goals, as well as with clients pursuing major-market transactions. It provides insights and creative, workable solutions that help clients across industries bring even the most complicated deals from concept to closing.

Our deal experience ranges from straightforward asset purchases to complex multi-party combinations, and we tailor each structure to the client's strategic and tax objectives. The Firm handles platform acquisitions, add-on acquisitions, carve-outs, divestitures, management buyouts, recapitalizations, joint ventures, and cross-border transactions.

The Firm provides support for transactions from idea to execution, including stock purchases, asset acquisitions, mergers, spin-offs, rollups, and other strategic combinations. Its experience includes assisting with both friendly and hostile transactions, as well as complex multi-party arrangements.

In acquisitions and divestitures, the Firm conducts comprehensive due diligence reviews and investigations that cover the legal, regulatory, financial, and operational aspects of target companies. The team identifies material risks and opportunities that inform transaction structure and pricing decisions.

The Firm also manages the regulatory approval process for transactions requiring government clearance, including antitrust approvals, industry-specific regulatory consents, and foreign investment reviews. The team's regulatory experience lets it identify and address potential obstacles and work with clients to keep transactions on schedule.

Our work continues after the transaction closes. The Firm regularly assists clients with post-closing integration planning, including organizational structure, governance arrangements, and operational coordination, helping clients realize anticipated transaction synergies while managing integration risks.

Our integration support addresses employment transitions, benefit plan harmonization, IP assignment and license transfers, real estate consolidation, vendor contract novation, and regulatory re-filings, so that the value identified in diligence can be realized in operations.

EM³'s M&A team draws on the Firm's IP, employment, real estate, and regulatory practices to deliver integrated transaction execution. This cross-practice model is designed so that issues, from IP ownership and employee retention to real estate title, receive focused attention without the delays and coordination costs of engaging separate firms. Whenever required, the firm retains specialty and local counsel on our clients’ behalf.

The Firm's experience with cross-border M&A transactions lets it coordinate with foreign counsel and work across multiple legal systems in connection with various international transaction structures and regulatory frameworks.

• Platform and add-on acquisitions
• Carve-outs and divestitures
• Management buyouts and recapitalizations
• Joint ventures and strategic combinations
• Cross-border transactions
• Due diligence and risk assessment
• Post-closing integration
• Regulatory approvals