Mergers and Acquisitions

Clients embarking on domestic and international corporate transactions turn to our team to provide skillful guidance through the often complex, multi-layered process and get them across the finish line. No matter the size or circumstances of the deal, we draw on our extensive experience and knowledge to tackle all the issues that can arise in sophisticated mergers and acquisitions and other transactions. We take the time to fully understand our clients’ businesses and use that deep insight to carefully tailor transactions to allay their concerns and help them fulfill their commercial objectives. When a matter requires creativity and new approaches, we know how to craft innovative strategies to help get the deal done.

Our team’s full-spectrum capability and know-how in handling cross-border transactions for U.S. and offshore clients help pave the way for international deals. When needed, the firm’s New York-based attorneys also rely on the talents of peers in other practice areas and from a worldwide network of talent to coordinate any and all facets of multinational transactions.

In all matters, we diligently keep clients in compliance with any antitrust, securities, investment security and other regulatory requirements, including those stemming from the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act (HSR), the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).

Why Our Experience is the Right Fit

Spurning Cookie-Cutter Models, Embracing Customized Strategies

Whether we’re representing a deal-savvy serial buyer or private equity firm, a global corporate group conducting a complex cross-border deal or a family business that’s being purchased by a larger entity, our team devises shrewd strategies that precisely fit the size, complexity, and circumstances of each transaction. Always emphasizing the human component of each matter, we excel at thoroughly analyzing each situation, assessing the various personalities and what makes them tick, and then forging the best deal construct for the particular situation.

The firm’s corporate transaction lawyers have at their disposal the talents and resources of the firm’s diverse practice groups, including Tax, Employment, Employee Benefits, Environmental and Land Use, Intellectual Property, Antitrust, Litigation, Banking, Insolvency and Creditors’ Rights, and Real Estate. Our mid-sized firm structure facilitates smart and flexible staffing approaches that can expand or contract as needed throughout the course of a matter, which produces practical, proficient, and cost-effective counsel.

Our Innovative Approach

Embracing the New. We always remain open to new ways of thinking, which enhances our client service in representing a wide range of organizations in a variety of industries. Clients appreciate our ability to synthesize inventive ideas and tactics with our deep well of collective knowledge to help them attain optimal outcomes.

Tracking Global Changes, Making Matters Work. Our team keeps abreast of the latest regulatory developments affecting international transactions so our lawyers can smooth the way for our clients to close their cross-border deals involving Canada, Israel, Turkey, the UK, Australia, China, and other countries. Clients with concerns about CFIUS requirements know that our attorneys will shepherd them safely through these issues.

A Custom Fit. We shape our approach and services to perfectly conform to the needs of our clients in all areas, including in setting staffing numbers to bringing in the right attorneys from relevant practices areas to determining the appropriate level of explanation required to keep clients informed every step of the way.

Meshing the Mix. Each transaction comprises a unique and often complex combination of personalities, organizations, financial goals, and circumstances. Our team excels at orchestrating the individual parts to work together so deals move forward to completion.

Proven Strengths

Our team advises clients across the entire continuum of M&A and related areas, including these and others:

• Mergers
• Acquisitions
• Restructurings
• Joint ventures
• Investments
• Divestitures
• Spin-offs
• Cross-border transactions
• Purchases
• Sales
• Asset deals
• Takeovers
• Liquidations

Representative Experience

• Carter Ledyard Client Moreld Acquires Ocean Installer
• Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd., Enters Into An Agreement to Acquire Stellar Blu Solutions LLC, A Leader In In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) Technology

• Carter Ledyard Client CooperVision Completes Acquisition of SynergEyes

• Carter Ledyard client Pacific Current Group (“PAC”), a multiboutique asset management firm, in its acquisition of a 24.9% stake in Avante Capital Partners, LP, one of the largest women and minority-owned private credit firms in the U.S. focused on flexible capital to fund growth. PAC’s 24.9% equity interest in Avante was acquired for a purchase price of up to US$40M

• Carter Ledyard Client Greenfire Resources Merges with M3-Brigade Acquisition for NYSE Listing and Several Financing Transactions

• Carter Ledyard Client, Scholly, in Asset Acquisition by Sallie Mae, Enables Free App for Users

• Carter Ledyard Represents Stone Source in Its Acquisition by Platinum Equity Portfolio Company

• Carter Ledyard Serves as U.S. Counsel to MTS in Merger with SharpLink

• Crescent Point Energy Corp. in its $2.55-billion deal to purchase Hammerhead Energy Inc., a Calgary-based energy company.

• Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq: GILT, TASE: GILT), a worldwide leader in satellite networking technology, solutions, and services, in its announced agreement to acquire DataPath, Inc. (DPI).

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