Practices

Business / Corporate

Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures

Our business lawyers are experienced in representing buyers, sellers, and other interested parties in negotiated mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. We have handled stock, asset, and merger purchase and sale transactions valued from a few hundred thousand dollars to more than $2 billion in many different industries. We assist clients in setting and evaluating transactional goals and in optimizing the benefits realized from the transaction, including tax and financing benefits, while minimizing their exposure to liability. As part of our practice, we counsel clients in designing and conducting a “due diligence” investigation of target companies and ensuring compliance with applicable trade, antitrust, securities regulation, labor and employment, and other laws and regulations. Our attorneys have handled numerous M&A transactions that have presented particularly challenging or unique circumstances. In conjunction with our bankruptcy practice, we have represented sellers in financial distress who would otherwise have been pressured to sell all or a portion of their business. In addition, we have particular experience in industry specific roll-up transactions, as well as transactions involving the purchase and sale of electric power generation plants and holding companies.

Because of our knowledge of corporate law and the judicial system, investors have often asked our lawyers to monitor hostile takeover attempts in Pennsylvania and assist in predicting the outcome of judicial contests for corporate control. Our lawyers have also advised clients with respect to the design and implementation of “defensive measures,” thereby giving their boards of directors the time and flexibility to properly evaluate unsolicited takeover activity.

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