We protect our clients and safeguard their assets especially in business sale and other M&A transactions. In any Mergers and Acquisition transaction there is a risk that problems may arise after a sale from poor planning or unforeseen legal vulnerabilities.
With Petersen Landis, you get experienced, stable, focused attorneys, whether you’re selling your business for $8 million or $80 million. We provide personal attention for impactful business transactions and deliver expert guidance so our clients can understand the in’s and out’s of their deal.
The firm represents a wide variety of companies in M&A transactions, providing the experience and expertise to guide both buyers and sellers through the process in an efficient, cost-effective manner. Over the past three years, the firm has represented clients in transactions totaling over $1 billion in deal proceeds. A representative sample of recent M&A transactions is set forth below:
Most business owners participate in one or maybe two M&A transactions in their careers. The fact is every M&A transaction is fraught with risks to the seller and buyer. Improperly constructed transactions leave unseen vulnerabilities just waiting to cause unnecessary pain either during or after it has been completed.
Common areas of oversight include:
Mergers and acquisitions are complex, with specialized, time-sensitive work. Some transactions are compacted into a matter of months, others span years of planning and preparation to make sure that the deal is executed properly.
M&A lawyers are advisors first and foremost. They assist both the seller and the acquiring company on a host of matters, including legal, regulatory and financial, alerting them to red flags and other issues that may arise in the transaction.
Your M&A lawyer will help facilitate effective and efficient communication with accountants, bankers, real estate brokers, Private Equity or VC funds among others. They will hammer out details such as terms, timelines, goals, and more.
There is a lot of paperwork that goes into a merger and acquisition, and much of that will be done by a team of drafters. This will include term sheets, contracts, opinions, letters, registrations, government applications, and other important documents. We will take the preliminary term sheet for a deal to the end stage of final deal documents, with our client’s goals our top priority throughout the process.
We are in the business of protecting our clients and safeguarding their assets especially in business sale and M&A transactions. These are stories illustrating the ways in which we accomplish this. No stories are a guarantee of results. Please refer to the disclaimer in our footer.
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