Cross Border Growth - Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Joint Ventures and Strategic Transactions
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Our Mergers & Acquisitions team help businesses become greater than the sum of their parts.
Our team
gunnercooke’s multinational M&A team guides clients through transformative corporate transactions that propel global growth.
As highly experienced advisors to the C-Suite and boards, our experienced team of M&A lawyers supports you across all industries in domestic and international strategic growth transactions including M&A transactions, joint ventures, sales, restructurings, mergers, and the purchase or sale of individual divisions. We also advise investors in venture capital and private equity transactions.
Our integrated multidisciplinary specialists across jurisdictions support our M&A partners in specialty and regulatory practice areas and industries involving technologies, crypto and blockchain. IP, executive compensation and employment, pensions, data privacy, antitrust and foreign direct investment regulations, bankruptcy and insolvency, litigation and tax to cover all facets of the deal.
Our clients include small and growth companies, SMEs, large multinationals, private equity funds, family offices, and financial advisors.
M&A transactions
Supporting M&A transactions on the buyer or seller side, both in bidding processes and in bilateral negotiations, is one of our core competencies. We offer legally, economically, and tax- optimized solutions to achieve your strategic goals.
Our industry-oriented approach combines legal expertise with a deep understanding of industry-specific challenges and markets in a diverse array of industries including technology, software/information technology, defense, energy (traditional and renewable), pharma and life sciences, consumer products, fintech and blockchain, manufacturing, real estate, telecommunications/media and advertising, service industries, energy and transportation. Where necessary, we work closely with external business consultants and tax advisors. In the context of international transactions, we coordinate cooperation with advisors from our global gunnercooke network as well as with friendly law firms and tax advisory and auditing companies.
Our field of activity includes:
Our comprehensive range of services covers all legal aspects and the coordination of tax optimisation and liability risk management for M&A projects. This includes:
- Pre-transaction restructuring of the target company
- Financial and corporate cross border deal structuring
- Preliminary agreements – NDAs, terms sheets and pitch books
- Merger structuring
- M&A financing and mezzanine debt
- Design, implementation, and support of due diligence
- Drafting and negotiation of transaction documentation
- Investor and shareholder equity and debt agreements and voting trusts
- Employment Agreements and earn-outs
- Support with transaction “representations and warranties” insurance
- Post acquisition integration and interim corporate governance
- Distressed M&A and Restructuring including fiduciary duties in a distressed scenario
- Regulatory review – anti-competition and merger control, FDI and securities laws
- Management and implementation of signing and closing
- Support during the post-closing phase
- Resolution of post-M&A disputes
Experience highlights
The cross-sector and long-standing experience of the gunnercooke M&A team is reflected in numerous successfully supported transactions.