Capabilities
When it comes to helping our clients advance their business goals, King & Spalding knows every transaction is significant. From complex, high-value deals that shape markets to strategic transactions that sharpen a business’s focus, we bring together our collective experience, global resources, and deep industry knowledge to help acquirors, sellers and targets successfully execute and close transactions – treating each we handle with an uncompromising approach to quality and service.
Each year, we advise on hundreds of transactions across the globe, including multi-billion-dollar public company M&A transactions, serial acquisitions, private equity and strategic investments for financial sponsors, and expansion and exit deals for middle market and smaller private companies. These clients turn to us because of our understanding of their business objectives and our straightforward, outward-oriented and personal approach.
Experience Across the M&A Spectrum.
We guide acquirors, sellers and targets through multiple types of M&A transactions, including:
We also advise our clients in:
In addition to acting for principals in M&A transactions, we also advise:
Connections to the Right Resources.
The breadth of our practice allows us to complement our core M&A teams with coordinated advice across more than 50 legal areas.
We tailor each cross-practice team we assemble around the client, the transaction and the guiding business objectives — regularly collaborating with our colleagues experienced in capital markets, tax, executive compensation and benefits, intellectual property, global human capital, and data, privacy and security.
Our M&A team draws upon our practices in Trial and Global Disputes — where we have a remarkable record of success for our clients, both inside and outside the courtroom — and Government Matters — where we leverage decades of prior government service and industry expertise to provide our clients with insight in their most complex regulatory and enforcement challenges, including antitrust, national security, international trade and government investigations.
Clients benefit from our combination of our broad, global capabilities with deep-seated business and sector knowledge across several priority industries, issues and regulatory frameworks, including technology, energy, life sciences, healthcare, real estate, transportation and logistics, financial services, aerospace and defense, among others that frequently come into play in our clients’ transactions.
April 9, 2026
The Digital Transformation of the M&A Market: AI as a Support Tool
April 7, 2026
“There’s still more to be gained!” – The Strategic Benefits of Post-M&A Arbitration Proceedings
March 26, 2026
Responding to Force Majeure — Five Practical Tips When Your Counterparty Sends a Notice
April 22, 2026
K&S advises SK Capital Partners on its acquisition of Brothers International Food Holdings.
April 20, 2026
Justin King, who is a finalist for the Daily Report's Most Effective Deal-Makers award, is profiled
April 7, 2026
Charles Katz, Jeremy Schropp and Baylie Evans advise Booz Allen Hamilton on its acquisition of Defy Security
J. Hillyer Jennings to Speak at the ABA Business Law Spring Meeting
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