Mergers & Acquisitions

Successful mergers and acquisitions (M&A) require support from experienced M&A lawyers who can execute the most complex transactions in the face of a rapidly changing regulatory environment and geopolitical headwinds. Our cross-border M&A team has extensive experience helping clients navigate through every step of their strategic M&A deals.

With support from lawyers throughout the firm, we know how to handle every aspect of our clients’ deals. And our longstanding relationships with law and policy-makers and regulatory bodies around the world help our clients enter new markets, anticipating and adapting to myriad regulatory, policy and cultural challenges that arise.

By combining our multidisciplinary approach and the resources of a full-service global law firm, we support our clients—wherever and whenever they do business—by effectively and efficiently:

• Executing transactions across industry sectors and jurisdictions.
• Understanding the commercial drivers behind each transaction so that we give the best advice in a commercially pragmatic manner.
• Developing innovative structures to accommodate the most complex tax, regulatory and financing challenges.
• Anticipating the needs of our clients in light of our extensive experience advising on all manner of buy- and sell-side mandates.
• Creating bespoke capital structures and financing arrangements to help clients fund deals when traditional bank debt may be unavailable.
• Managing the many challenges of global deals, particularly with respect to the increasing regulatory hurdles posed by protectionist trade policies, competition laws, sanctions and foreign direct investment (FDI) policies, with help from our International Trade and Competition team.
• Completing distressed transactions for financially troubled companies and opportunistic buyers—both in and out of formal restructuring proceedings.