Financial and strategic buyers and sellers must navigate constantly changing financing challenges, increased investor demands and an ever-changing regulatory landscape. Now more than ever, successful transactions rely upon the support of sophisticated, experienced, pragmatic and creative legal counsel.
Akin Gump’s mergers and acquisitions (M&A) team has decades of experience representing many of the world’s most prominent public and private companies and investment funds, as well as private investors and boards of directors (including special committees) in complex mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, partnerships and other business combinations. With extensive experience closing deals across heavily regulated industries, we bring practical know-how and a business-minded approach to every situation. Our team includes tax, ERISA, labor, real estate, investment funds, environmental, antitrust, regulatory and policy specialists, and our network includes strong relationships with private equity and hedge fund sponsors, financial advisors, accountants and lenders throughout the world.
Our team has been at the forefront of some of the largest and most sophisticated mid- and large-cap transactions in recent years and is consistently ranked in industry league tables in the United States and globally. We have achieved market leadership positions in connection with distressed transactions, restructurings and 363 sales, as well as with transactions involving special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs). In 2010, we handled in excess of $83 billion in M&A deals. In addition to closing scores of middle-market transactions, our team advised on several of the largest global M&A transactions announced last year, including one the year’s largest financial services mergers, one of the largest cross-border telecommunications transactions, and several of the year’s most prominent energy transactions. Akin Gump is consistently recognized by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and M&A Advisor and has been named one of the world’s leading law firms for complex M&A transactions by Practical Law Company.
Our M&A team advises clients with respect to—
- stock sales, asset sales and mergers
- joint ventures
- due diligence reviews
- acquisition financing
- proxy solicitation materials, registration statements, Schedule 13D, Schedule 13G and other SEC filings
- securing requisite regulatory approvals, licenses and filings globally
- Hart-Scott-Rodino filings and antitrust advisory
- tax structuring
- corporate governance matters
- management and employee participation and incentive programs.