Mergers and acquisitions transactions — whether large or small — carry inherent complexities that must be clearly understood and properly addressed. Experienced legal counsel is essential at every stage, for every client, from local start-ups to global conglomerates. By maintaining both a sharp understanding of the business and legal environment and a focused eye on the issues particular to each deal, ENGARDE’s lawyers respond quickly and creatively to the nuances of sophisticated transactions.
Our M&A services include:
- Negotiation of mergers, acquisitions, takeovers, and other public and private transactions
- Share purchase transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions of controlling blocks
- Privatisation of state property
- Due diligence
- Acquisitions and dispositions of assets and business divisions
- Establishing joint ventures or limited partnerships for acquisition purposes
- Defence against corporate raiding
- Corporate governance and directors’ duties in the M&A context
- Public and private financing of M&A transactions
- Shareholder agreements and executive employment agreements
- Escrow arrangements in the M&A context
- Tax advice for mergers, acquisitions, and cross-border reorganisations
- Competition approval processes
To better serve clients on either side of a transaction, ENGARDE’s M&A practice works closely with practitioners across the firm to provide a full range of related services — including tax, competition, intellectual property, environmental, real estate, government relations, and employment and labour expertise.