Hughes Hubbard’s M&A attorneys assist clients in structuring, negotiating and implementing M&A transactions in the United States and abroad. Our practice involves both hostile and friendly transactions and includes the representation of public and private companies, acquirors, targets, boards of directors, independent director committees, management buyout groups, subordinated lenders and equity participants. Our experience covers a broad range of industries including, among others, industrial companies, media companies, pharmaceutical companies, airlines, utilities, apparel and other consumer products companies, financial services companies and accounting firms.
Our M&A lawyers are dedicated to providing outstanding client service, and work closely with practitioners in Hughes Hubbard’s other practice groups to bring the best mix of skills to each project. For example, we work closely with lawyers in the Antitrust Group in analyzing and structuring transactions, making pre-merger filings, coordinating filing and review obligations with other aspects of the transaction, and in seeking clearance of favorable review by antitrust and competition authorities in the U.S. and abroad, where necessary. Since each situation is unique, we develop and implement customized strategies that effectively support client objectives in a full range of M&A transactions, including:
- auction bids
- executive compensation matters
- financings
- going private
- hostile takeover bids
- joint ventures
- leveraged buyouts
- minority investments
- open market purchase programs
- “poison pills”, charter and by-law amendments and other defensive planning measures
- proxy fights
- restructurings
- sales of control
- spin-offs
- stock acquisitions
In today’s increasingly global economy, competent M&A representation requires international expertise. Our lawyers have extensive experience in international transactions, including advising clients on the U.S. law aspects of cross-border tender offers and other takeover bids, and managing the international aspects of M&A transactions.
Outside the U.S., our Paris office maintains an active European practice involving mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, restructurings and other M&A-related activities. Our Miami office serves as the base for our Latin American transactional practice, while attorneys in our New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo offices work extensively with Japanese clients.
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