Energy Mergers and Acquisitions

King & Spalding’s mergers and acquisitions lawyers have represented energy clients in mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures involving billions of dollars of oil and gas and power assets. With a leading energy practice and more than 90 corporate lawyers around the world focusing on mergers and acquisitions, the firm provides its clients a comprehensive understanding of the challenges unique to energy industry transactions and how to overcome them.

King & Spalding lawyers have advised on structures ranging from conventional (e.g., purchases and sales of stock or assets) to complex (e.g., tax-driven reorganizations using specialty financial instruments and pass-through entities such as limited partnerships and limited liability companies). The firm is also recognized as one of the most active and highly regarded law firms in the area of complex partnering, joint ventures and strategic alliances.

Areas of Expertise

• Purchases and sales of public and private companies
  
  
• Structuring and formation of strategic joint ventures and other strategic investments
  
  
• Tender offers and exchange offers
  
  
• Spin-offs, split-offs and similar divestitures
  
  
• Going-private transactions
  
  
• Takeover defense strategies
  
  
• Proxy contests

Recognitions

• King & Spalding is lauded by Chambers Global 2010 as possessing a “thriving energy M&A and project development and finance practice.”
  
  
• King & Spalding is recognized for its “first-class energy team” and ranks as one of the top energy and natural resources firms in the United States in the 2010 edition of Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business.
  
  
• King & Spalding is named one of the top energy and natural resources firms nationally (Chambers USA 2010).