Contacts
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Professionals
- Aldridge, Emphani
- Alexander, Ryan
- Bahrami-negad, Sogand "Victoria"
- Ballantine, Frank
- Bernard, J. Michael
- Buckley, Sean
- Cahill, Brendan
- Camp, Erin
- Carlisle, Christopher
- Cleary, Thomas
- Dalli, Nardeen
- DeHondt, Joseph
- Drake, Denise
- Durrett, Brandon
- Finkelstein, William
- Gifford, Jeffrey
- Gould, Dean
- Jay, Eric
- Kocienski, Scott
- Koh, Jin-Kyu
- Leavitt, Robert
- Liebmann, Wilhelm
- Lievois, Gerald
- Lindsey, Asel
- Malven, Mark
- Monaghan, Nick
- Mooradian, Serj
- Mouawad, Samir
- Munzer, Cynde
- Muskovitz, Melvin
- Psari, Igli
- Ryan, J. Patrick
- Sayre, Stephen
- Schostak, Alexis
- Segal, Gary
- Shrosbree, Robert
- Slinkard, Phillip
- Tsai, Diana
- Vaughn, Thomas
- Whalen, Jeanne
- Worsinger, Laura
- Yergensen, Ryan
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Overview
Dykema draws on its “excellent breadth and depth of knowledge” (Chambers USA) to represent a diverse group of middle-market and Fortune 500 companies, including automotive, financial services, energy, health care and insurance industry clients, in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions. We have also handled significant transactions for manufacturing, distribution, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, gaming, retail, sports and entertainment, technology-based and business services clients. Additionally, through our Private Equity and Venture Capital practice, we have represented private equity and venture capital firms and other investors in M&A deals and a wide variety of capital-raising transactions. The firm’s Merger and Acquisitions group is ranked nationwide among 2021 “Best Law Firms” by U.S. News – Best Lawyers.
Our attorneys deliver excellent representation and customized solutions built on a thorough knowledge of each client’s business and objectives. We offer comprehensive counsel on a broad spectrum of transactions, including public and private mergers; stock and asset purchases and sales; spinoffs; acquisitions and divestitures involving ESOPs; leveraged buyouts; exchange and tender offers; proxy contests; divisional purchases and sales and cross-border transactions involving businesses throughout the world.
We work with clients from inception through closing of a transaction, providing them with a full menu of M&A-related services that include:
- Negotiating investment banker engagement letters
- Counseling on preliminary planning, and structure, as well as the tax implications of a deal with support from the Firm's tax group
- Conducting due diligence investigations of potential targets or acquirers
- Negotiating and drafting complex business purchase and sale agreements
- Advising boards and special committees on the transaction process and related fiduciary responsibilities
- Strategic advice on M&A-related corporate governance, compliance and stockholder relations issues
- Preparing proxy materials for stockholder approved transactions
- Planning and implementing sale transactions conducted as “auctions”
- Preparing pre-merger notification reports under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act
- Obtaining governmental approvals
- Drafting and negotiating transaction financing documentation
Our M&A practitioners also work closely with the Firm's attorneys in other practice areas—such as intellectual property, tax, environmental, real estate, labor and employment, and benefits—who have substantial experience in M&A within their disciplines. In addition, our M&A attorneys work with the Firm’s bankruptcy group to represent companies seeking to acquire businesses or assets out of bankruptcy, as well as companies in bankruptcy seeking strategic partners or potential acquirers.
Annual Mergers and Acquisitions Outlook Survey
Since 2005, Dykema, with the help of our top deal community clients and friends, has developed a premier annual “State of the M&A Market” analysis cited by a range of national media including The Wall Street Journal, The Deal, Dow Jones, UPI and Bloomberg.
In the 16th annual edition of this survey, we canvassed senior executives—CEOs, CFOs and other professionals involved in M&A activities with their respective firms—to gauge their insights and perspectives on the mergers and acquisitions market in the coming 12 months. The results provide a snapshot of the M&A market and the economy this year and how they compare from previous years.
To read a summary of Dykema’s 2020 Mergers & Acquisitions Outlook Survey, please click here.
Experience Matters
Dykema attorneys have represented:
- A global private equity firm in its acquisition of a global automotive OEM and Tier 1 supplier of aluminum and ductile iron components including chassis, powertrain components and modules.
- A leading global supplier of systems and components for the automotive industry in its acquisition of a company that provides an exclusive hard-coating process for bright trim assemblies.
- A publicly traded medical professional liability insurance holding company in connection with its sale to a California-based medical professional liability insurance company in a $386 million all-cash merger.
- Compuware Corporation in its $265 million acquisition of Dyna Trace Software, Inc.
- Palace Sports & Entertainment, Inc. in its sale of the NHL franchise Tampa Bay Lightning.
- The Majestic Star Casino, LLC in its $253 million acquisition of Trump Indiana, Inc.
- Two rural electric cooperatives, Rock Energy Cooperative and Jo-Carroll Energy Cooperative, in acquiring the natural gas and electric service territories of Alliant Energy Corporation’s South Beloit Water, Gas and Electric Company and Interstate Power & Light Company.
- Cloverland Electric Cooperative as lead outside regulatory and corporate counsel in its purchase of Edison Sault Electric Company—an investor-owned utility operating as a subsidiary of Wisconsin Energy Corporation.
News
- December 8, 2020
- November 16, 2020
- November 3, 2020
- October 28, 2020
- September 11, 2020
- September 3, 2020
- August 18, 2020
- July 16, 2020
- May 13, 2020
- Thomas Vaughn, Alexis Schostak and Asel Lindsey to Join Panel Discussion on Navigating the CARES ActApril 20, 2020
- April 16, 2020
- April 2, 2020
- February 10, 2020
- January 13, 2020
- May 31, 2019
- May 29, 2019
- May 15, 2019
- May 14, 2019
- May 8, 2019
- January 18, 2019
- January 11, 2019
- January 1, 2019
- November 5, 2018
- November 4, 2018
- November 1, 2018
- October 28, 2018
- October 26, 2018
- October 17, 2018
- July 17, 2018
- May 30, 2018
- April 29, 2018
- January 8, 2018
- December 8, 2017
- October 25, 2017
- October 5, 2017
- September 18, 2017
- August 30, 2017
- July 15, 2017
- April 29, 2017
- March 29, 2017
- February 28, 2017
- February 2017
- December 1, 2016
- November 18, 2016
- November 14, 2016
- November 9, 2016
- November 8, 2016
- November 2, 2016
- October 26, 2016
- September 7, 2016
- August 12, 2016
- May 6, 2016
- May 6, 2016
- February 3, 2016
- December 9, 2015
- Phil Slinkard Authors Article on Attorney-Client Privilege in M&A for Metropolitan Corporate CounselJuly 17, 2015
- June 17, 2015
- April 24, 2015
- December 17, 2014
- December 6, 2014
- November 26, 2014
- November 16, 2014
- November 13, 2014
- June 6, 2014
- May 27, 2014
- March 24, 2014
- Brendan Cahill, Jin-Kyu Koh Quoted in Crain’s Detroit Business Special Report on Michigan M&A MarketMarch 19, 2014
- March 14, 2014
- March 5, 2014
- February 12, 2014
- January 13, 2014
- December 27, 2013
- December 23, 2013
- December 3, 2013
- December 3, 2013
- November 22, 2013
- November 20, 2013
- November 1, 2013
- October 31, 2013
- October 22, 2013
- September 12, 2013
- August 2, 2013
- July 17, 2013
- March 12, 2013
- February 7, 2013
- December 18, 2012
- December 18, 2012
- December 6, 2012
- November 7, 2012
- November 7, 2012
- October 3, 2012
- September 18, 2012
- September 12, 2012
- June 13, 2012
- June 6, 2012
- December 20, 2011
- Mergers & AcquisitionsJune 1, 2011
Press Releases
- November 5, 2020
- October 27, 2020
- October 22, 2020
- September 18, 2020
- September 8, 2020
- August 20, 2020
- April 23, 2020
- January 7, 2020
- November 19, 2019
- November 7, 2019
- November 1, 2019
- September 18, 2019
- September 3, 2019
- August 22, 2019
- August 15, 2019
- July 15, 2019
- April 25, 2019
- November 1, 2018
- October 17, 2018
- September 7, 2018
- September 6, 2018
- August 15, 2018
- July 2, 2018
- May 3, 2018
- April 24, 2018
- January 24, 2018
- December 11, 2017
- November 1, 2017
- October 25, 2017
- October 2, 2017
- September 5, 2017
- August 16, 2017
- August 15, 2017
- May 26, 2017
- November 14, 2016
- November 1, 2016
- Industry Predictions: Leveling Deal Activity and Optimism in Dykema’s 12th Annual M&A Outlook SurveyOctober 24, 2016
- September 6, 2016
- September 1, 2016
- August 15, 2016
- May 27, 2016
- November 16, 2015
- November 2, 2015
- October 29, 2015
- September 8, 2015
- August 18, 2015
- May 28, 2015
- February 4, 2015
- November 20, 2014
- November 3, 2014
- October 30, 2014
- January 16, 2014
- January 14, 2014
- January 8, 2014
- October 30, 2013
- June 6, 2013
- May 23, 2012
- March 26, 2012
- December 5, 2011
- November 10, 2011
- October 27, 2011
- October 26, 2011
- October 26, 2011
- September 27, 2011
- June 20, 2011
- January 14, 2011
Publications
- October 27, 2020
- November 7, 2019
- Illinois Bar JournalNovember 2019
- Insurance Coverage Law ReportApril 30, 2019
- “4 Takeaways From Sunny 2019 M&A Forecast”Law360January 11, 2019
- October 17, 2018
- Association of Corporate Counsel - South/Central TexasFall 2018
- California CEO MagazineMarch 28, 2018
- CFO MagazineNovember 18, 2016http://ww2.cfo.com/ma/2016/11/ma-2017-starting-cool-off/
- October 24, 2016
- CFO MagazineFebruary 2, 2016http://ww2.cfo.com/ma/2016/02/time-pull-ma-trigger/
- "Optimism Shifts Despite Record M&A Year"Law360December 16, 2015
- Chicago Daily Law BulletinDecember 8, 2015http://www.dykema.com/news-item-sayre-authors-article-on-ma-outlook-for-chicago-daily-law-bulletin_120915.html
- October 30, 2015
- Metropolitan Corporate CounselJuly 17, 2015http://www.metrocorpcounsel.com/articles/32613/many-facets-attorney-client-privilege-mergers-and-acquisitions
- Metropolitan Corporate CounselFebruary 2015http://www.metrocorpcounsel.com/articles/31318/fcc-liability-lurks-unwary-mergers-and-acquisitions
- "Privacy and Data Security Moving Up On the List of Issues in M&A Transactions"Inside CounselJanuary 27, 2015
- October 31, 2014
- Metropolitan Corporate CounselApril 2014http://www.dykema.com/news-item-John-Dickey-Authors-Guide-to-Top-Ten-Issues-for-Cross-Border-M-and-A-and-Strategic-Investments_3-2014.html
- October 31, 2013http://www.dykema.com/news-item-Dykema-Unveils-Results-From-Ninth-Annual-M-and-A-Outlook-Survey.html
- ACC DocketJune 2012
- Smart Business DetroitApril 2012
Events & Speaking Engagements
- October 27, 2020
- October 7, 2020
- August 14, 2020
- August 13, 2020
- March 7, 2019
- October 30, 2018
- November 17, 2016
- Power of the Past. Force of the Future - Mergers and Acquisitions Panel, Panelist, Michigan Minority Procurement Conference 2016, Detroit, MichiganMay 3-5, 2016
- Mergers & Acquisitions, Panelist, Crains Detroit Business General & In-House Counsel SummitJune 10, 2015
- Public and Private Spin-offs, Panel Moderator, ABA Business Law Section Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CaliforniaApril 16, 2015
- September 18, 2014
- July 8, 2014
- October 30 and November 5, 2013
- April 11, 2013
- Merge & Purge: Understanding Deal IR Strategies, Chicago Chapter of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI), panelistFebruary 13, 2013
- June 5, 2012 (Los Angeles-area)
- May 23, 2012 (Detroit) and May 24, 2012 (Chicago)
Articles & Alerts
- February 2, 2021
- November 6, 2020
- August 14, 2020
- April 3, 2020
- August 1, 2019
- May 3, 2019
- January 23, 2019
- November 19, 2018
- July 31, 2018
- April 30, 2018
- By John C. DickeyApril 5, 2013