Mergers & Acquisitions
Exploring investment, restructure and exit opportunities requires business acumen and solid, commercially focused legal advice and assistance.
Practice lead: Bill Karvela
You have identified an opportunity; now you need to explore its viability, and if all goes to plan, seize it. You also want to ensure the transaction process runs seamlessly and that the outcomes you seek are achieved.
We can help you explore the viability of an opportunity, and once you have decided to proceed we can assist with making the transaction as smooth as possible.
Our substantial ‘full market’ corporate transactional guidance and management practice has the knowledge and industry expertise to provide legal assistance and advice throughout all stages of the transaction process.
We serve as counsel to a broad array of domestic and international corporations, privately held and venture backed companies, partnerships, private equity firms and other entrepreneurs.
At all times, our focus is delivering your commercial outcome as quickly and effectively as possible.
We can help you with:
- strategies, negotiations and transaction documents for acquisitions, sales, restructures, demergers and takeovers
- due diligence and managing data rooms
- corporate structuring
- confidentiality agreements
- Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) applications and Foreign Acquisition and Takeovers Act advice
- scrip-for-scrip exchanges, including domestic or overseas
- shareholder agreements
- schemes of arrangement
- disclosure documentation
- financing, including capital raisings and debt financing
- formation of consolidated groups
- stock exchange listings advice
- tax rollovers and concessions
- commercial agreements and documents
- corporate governance
- competition
- transitioning of existing workforce