Mergers and Acquisitions
From closely held private businesses and family offices to midsized subsidiaries of public Fortune 500 companies and privately held portfolio companies, businesses of all shapes and sizes need the M&A capabilities of a law firm focused on serving the middle market.
Our M&A team is adept at buy-side and sell-side mergers and acquisitions, leveraged recapitalizations and buyouts, spin-offs, sales of subsidiaries, and distressed company transactions between $10 million to $1 billion in value.
Dykema’s 21st Annual M&A Outlook Survey
We canvassed CEOs, CFOs, and other professionals involved in M&A activities with their respective firms to gauge their insights and perspectives on the M&A 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.
Dykema draws on its “excellent breadth and depth of knowledge” (Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business) to represent a diverse group of middle-market and Fortune 500 companies, including automotive, manufacturing, financial services, energy, technology, cannabis, wine and spirits distribution, healthcare and dental service organization, and insurance industry clients, in M&A transactions.
Additionally, we represent private equity and venture capital firms and other investors in M&A deals and a wide variety of capital-raising transactions. The firm’s M&A team is ranked nationally by U.S. News - Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms.”
- negotiating investment banker engagement letters
- counseling on preliminary planning, and structure, as well as the tax implications of a transaction with support from the firm's tax group
- assisting in 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 and regulatory approvals
- drafting and negotiating transaction financing documentation
- analyses of notification requirements
- preparation, submission and defense of premerger notifications
- economic analyses of the underlying transactions
- handling investigations and Second Requests
- “clean team” protocols to mitigate the risk that pre-consummation document and information exchanges violate the Hart-Scott-Rodino waiting period requirements or result in illegal collusive behavior
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