Mergers and Acquisitions

Providing legal counsel on merger and acquisition transactions is a primary area of focus for the Business Group at Ober|Kaler. We serve buyers, sellers, investors, private equity and venture funds, management buyout groups and other parties involved in M&A activity. We provide counsel on transaction structuring and negotiation, due diligence, board and management fiduciary responsibilities and, when applicable, SEC and stock exchange regulatory matters and filings and antitrust compliance.

Our group’s experience includes M&A transactions for financial service, health care, technology (including “hard” technology assets like cell towers), construction, media, consumer products and professional service companies. We provide advice in “friendly” negotiated transactions as well as in hostile takeovers or a company’s implementation of defensive measures to avoid a change in control transaction.

Drawing upon the resources of our colleagues from different practices across the firm – including tax, health care, banking, intellectual property, real estate, employment, ERISA and antitrust - allows us to provide the comprehensive advice necessary for these types of transactions.

Our M&A services include:

• Sales and purchases of business entities
• Sales and purchases of business units
• Mergers and consolidations
• Stock and asset sales and purchase
• Restructurings and reorganizations
• Tender offers
• Leveraged buyouts
• Hostile takeovers (or their defense) and proxy contests
• Public-to-private transactions