Proper M&A transactions require counsel that understands the clients’ objectives, as well as the legal and regulatory regimes regardless of jurisdictions and that delivers the result based on skillful negotiation and the ability to close deals quickly, efficiently and successfully.

We have extensive experience representing merging parties and related stakeholders in M&A activity across a wide range of industries with a variety of merger and acquisition transactions locally, cross-border and world-wide. Our lawyers are highly experienced and skilled in implementing effective M&A solutions and provide strategic M&D strategies, in negotiating and executing M&A transactions, both public and private, and we work with outside lawyers drawn from other disciplines to M&A, such as tax, securities, competition, foreign investment review, litigation, IP/IT and environmental law. Delivering result for our clients is our top priority, whichever side you are on.

Boards of directors and special committees regularly deal with multiple layers of complexity in Mergers and Acquisitions situations and we help them in navigating their fiduciary duties and following appropriate process.

We advise clients on structuring considerations, domestic and cross-border M&A transactions involving listed and other public entities, as well as the acquisition and disposition of closely-held businesses. Our expertise includes take-over bids, amalgamations and mergers, plans of arrangement, reverse takeovers, reorganizations, related party transaction, going-private transactions and spin-offs, as well as share and asset sales, related-party rules, special committee obligations, take-over defences and contested shareholder meetings. We represent all types of participants in such transactions, including buyers, sellers, targets, investment banks, boards of directors, special committees, commercial banks providing acquisition financing, merchant banks and institutional investors.