We help publicly traded and privately held companies and leading private equity firms execute their most important mergers, acquisitions and takeover transactions. We treat each transaction with an uncompromising approach to quality and client service, bringing together our collective experience, global platform, and deep industry knowledge.

Each year we advise on hundreds of transactions worldwide, including multi-billion-dollar public company M&A transactions, serial acquisitions, private equity and strategic investments, and growth-company expansion and exit transactions. Our experience spans both domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions and dispositions; joint ventures; and spin-offs, split-ups and carve-outs. We also advise on corporate preparedness and anti-takeover strategies, responses to unsolicited bids, tender offers and proxy contests and Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) transactions.

We build teams around the client and the transaction, working closely with colleagues in capital markets, tax, executive compensation and benefits, intellectual property, global human capital, and data, privacy and security. When transactions raise heightened regulatory or dispute risk, we integrate antitrust and competition, CFIUS/national security, international trade, investigations, and global disputes capabilities to deliver coordinated guidance throughout the engagement.

We also help companies and boards respond to activist and event-driven hedge fund activity from a position of strength. Our activist defense work ranges from vulnerability and corporate governance analyses and shareholder engagement guidance to boardroom-level counsel in proxy campaigns and strategic transactions, anchored by our Corporate Monitoring and Preparedness Program and supported by in-house financial analysts who track and synthesize data to identify activist activity and trends.