Mergers & Acquisitions

Our team advises on all aspects of public and private M&A for leading companies, sponsors and other organizations. We support clients at all stages of transactions and across the full range of deal structures, including public takeovers and tender offers, divestments, auctions, take privates, demergers, strategic transactions, and company sales.

We offer a team-oriented, holistic approach that brings together our M&A, IP, privacy, tax, employee benefits, real estate, securities, and governance lawyers to maximize value, streamline delivery, and reduce costs. Our dedicated deal teams provide consistency across acquisition programs, roll-up strategies, and company sale processes, backed by strong deal execution, risk management, and guidance on disclosure, compliance, and governance matters.

Our knowledge across key sectors gives clients the benefit of deep industry insight critical to any transaction. Our dedicated industry teams have led significant and innovative deals across financial services, energy and resources, transportation and infrastructure, media and telecommunications, healthcare, technology, and manufacturing.

Our lawyers represent private equity firms, local and international sponsors, portfolio companies, sellers, management teams, and founders across the investment lifecycle. We advise on a range of private company deals, investments, middle-market transactions, and complex, high-profile transactions, including multibillion-dollar public-to-private acquisitions.

Combining our global reach and integrated transactional knowledge, we provide high-quality commercial advice from fund formation and fundraising through acquisitions, equity rollover, and other transaction arrangements, disposals, and portfolio exits.

We bring a wealth of global knowledge to assist companies in establishing their businesses on the right foundation to grow and prosper. We advise high-growth companies, venture and growth capital funds, corporate clients, and other investors across the investment lifecycle. We offer an end-to-end service with commercially focused advice across corporate, debt and equity finance, regulatory, IP, data protection, employment and incentives, tax, and disputes.

Our team advises directors, general counsel, and company secretaries of public and large private companies. We counsel clients on governance, regulatory, compliance, and risk matters across a range of practice areas, including corporate, executive incentives, pensions, corporate crime, financial regulation, data privacy, employment, and environment and safety.

We also help clients develop practical responses to legal and regulatory risk and manage crises, including cyberattacks and fraud.

Technology is a vital area of consideration for every business, regardless of sector, and our dedicated global team works with a variety of public and private clients at all stages of growth to execute transactions and financings, support the digitalization of their businesses, and advise on venture capital-backed sales to strategic and financial buyers. We bring together our M&A and technology experience to deliver real value to clients.

Our global infrastructure M&A team provides integrated acquisition and financing advice across infrastructure asset classes, including energy and renewables, transport, digital infrastructure, social infrastructure, and power and utilities.

We deliver solutions through a core team of dedicated infrastructure professionals, supported by lawyers with M&A, finance, and regulatory experience.

Our dedicated Financial Services M&A team advises on some of the most complex and high-profile transactions in the financial services sector. We advise on the full spectrum of financial services transactions including banks, insurance, wealth management, asset management, payments, fintech, brokers, market infrastructure and FS-adjacent services. We operate seamlessly with our Financial Regulatory colleagues and other specialists who have particular experience in the financial services sector including Specialty Finance, Investment Funds, Competition, DET, Data Privacy, IP, Tax, Disputes and Employment.

Our lawyers are sensitive to the dynamics and challenges of selling a family business. We work with business owners to develop a road map, preparing them for what will likely be the biggest financial transaction of their lives.