Corporate & Business Transactions Mergers & Acquisitions

Our attorneys provide expert representation in all areas of mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, consolidations, combinations, and recapitalizations. Transaction types include:

• Purchase and sale of public and private corporations
• Asset acquisitions and divestitures
• Divisional and product-line acquisitions and divestitures
• Management buyouts
• Employee Stock Ownership Plans
• Leveraged acquisitions
• Acquisition financings
• Joint ventures
• Licensing arrangements

We represent a wide array of clients in Mergers & Acquisitions, including public companies, closely held companies, founder and/or family owned companies and private equity portfolio companies, across a range of industries, with regional, national and international footprints. Across the following industries and beyond:

• Automotive
• Energy
• Construction
• Financial Services
• Manufacturing & Distribution
• Health Care
• Senior Living
• Education
• Life/Bioscience
• Aviation
• Clean Tech
• Software & Technology
• Media
• Public Finance

• Represented the Estate of Laura Halloran, founder of a life science consulting firm in the sale of the company, which was also partially owned by an ESOP, to a global provider of comprehensive healthcare services.
• Represented a battery and electronics distributor in their sale to a newly formed U.S. subsidiary of a Jamaican-based public company, Tropical Battery USA.
• Represented Excelitas Technologies Corp. in its acquisition of Phoseon Technology, a designer and manufacturer of LED-based industrial curing and scientific illumination solutions.
• Represented Infinex Financial Holdings, a broker-dealer focused on serving the investment management needs of financial institutions with about $30 billion in client assets, in its sale to Advisor Group Holdings, Inc. (now Osaic).
• Represented DSM in their strategic partnership with Elanco Animal Health Incorporated.
• Represented equity capital investor, East Bay Merchant Partners and affiliates, in their joint venture with Sands Building Group to develop a 354-unit cottage-style rental community in Hardeeville, South Carolina
• Represented The Prospect-Woodward home in their sale of a nonprofit continuing care retirement community, which required a probate court approval and change of control approval from the NH Attorney General and NH Insurance Commissioner.
• Represented the seller of a Double-A minor league baseball franchise to a private equity-backed buyer.
• Represented Meadowbrook Associates Limited in their purchase of 8 Valvoline locations in NJ and PA
• Represented the sole shareholder of Cambridge Specialty Co., Inc., a manufacturer of aerospace defense parts located in Berlin, Connecticut, in its sale of the business to MSI.