When buying or selling your business, the business lawyers at Davis & Kuelthau, offer more than simple legal advice. We bring practical, real-world experience to help you overcome the legal, as well as the business, pitfalls that accompany all mergers, acquisitions and related business transactions. We help you prepare with advance planning, so you are ready to act when the right opportunity arises.
We pride ourselves on our efficiency and ability to devise innovative solutions that are consistent with our clients’ goals, budget, and risk tolerance level. We take the time to thoroughly understand our clients' business so that we can help them make sound business decisions.
Services
- Stock and asset purchases and sales (buyer and seller)
- Divestitures and spin-offs
- Mergers (target and acquirer)
- Tax-free reorganizations, recapitalizations, conversions and other types of corporate restructuring
- Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)
- Management led and other leveraged buyouts
- Joint venture transactions
- Private equity and venture capital investments
- Stock repurchase programs
- Stockholder proxy contests and related shareholder actions
- Advise governing boards and management regarding fiduciary duties to stockholders, employees and other constituencies
We regularly handle a variety of transactions, from relatively straightforward, small transactions to complex deals involving hundreds of millions of dollars. No matter is too simple or too difficult. For example, we have participated in complex special purpose acquisition company (“SPAC”) transactions in which a SPAC was created, went public, raised additional funds in a private placement offering, obtained senior bank financing, merged with an acquisition target and raised additional funds in a contemporaneous private placement offering.
Likewise, no client is too big or too small. We regularly represent entrepreneurs, investors, management groups, buyer and seller entities, and ESOPs of all sizes and spanning all types of industries. Although we focus on family-owned and privately held companies, we also represent Fortune 500 companies. Regardless of size, we treat all of our clients and transactions with the attention and care that they expect and deserve.
Davis & Kuelthau’s business lawyers have another advantage. We have developed extensive contacts with financial institutions, investment banks, equity funds, venture capital groups and merger and acquisition consultants, as well as with the business and political community generally. Should the need arise, we can call upon these resources to help locate strategic partners for, and provide assistance to, our clients.
We also recognize that corporate transactions do not occur in isolation. Many issues arise in the context of a merger or acquisition, such as anti-trust, bankruptcy, environmental, regulatory, securities, employment and benefit issues, tax concerns, intellectual property rights, or environmental liability. The services of our law firm extend to each of these areas, and many more, to provide clients with a coordinated, comprehensive and complete solution to their deal. Our mergers and acquisition attorneys will serve as the transaction leader to coordinate any and all needed legal counsel and services of outside professionals to ensure clients receive seamless service that leads to the desired outcomes.
For more information regarding our Mergers & Acquisitions experience, please contact Scott Fiducci at 414.225.1428 or sfiducci@dkattorneys.com.