Mergers and Acquisitions
Our Practice - What We Do
Business acquisitions and combinations are occurring at an ever-increasing pace, both locally and globally, with unprecedented dollar values. Our Mergers and Acquisitions attorneys are versed in providing strategic, innovative legal and business services for complicated corporate transactions. Knowledgeable, experienced, and responsive counsel is key to effective “deal-making.”
Our Mergers and Acquisitions attorneys provide specific services such as:
- Government and regulatory agency compliance
- Due diligence review
- Drafting and negotiation of various acquisition and related agreements
- SEC registration
- Hart-Scott-Rodino Act filings
- Preparing prospectuses and offering memoranda
- Stockholder rights plans
- Stock option and severance plans
- Confidentiality agreements
- Intellectual property asset management
Our Attorneys - Who We Are
At Snell & Wilmer, our attorneys are committed to partnering with the venture capital community. As such, our clients expect more from us. It’s why we helped to establish the Arizona Venture Capital Conference, and the Arizona Technology Venture Fund. Moreover, several of our clients have been financed by venture capital funds as a direct result of our community partnerships. Exceeding expectations. That’s the Snell & Wilmer difference.
Our Clients - Who We Represent
Our attorneys have experience in significant regulated and unregulated industries, representing:
- Sellers
- Buyers
- Investors
- Investment, commercial, and merchant banks
- Venture capital firms
- Institutional lenders
- Independent directors and committees
- Management groups
Our Experience - What We've Done
As one of the most active Mergers and Acquisitions practices in the West, our attorneys have the necessary experience to address the complex and time-sensitive issues that arise in business transactions. We also draw upon other attorneys in the firm to address the antitrust, tax, securities, real estate, environmental, labor, employee benefit, and litigation issues that invariably are part of such transactions.
Attorneys in our Mergers and Acquisitions practice have experience in matters such as:
- Diligence of prospective targets
- Asset sales and purchases
- Mergers, stock sales and purchases
- Leveraged buy-outs
- Spin-offs and roll-ups
- Corporate reorganization and restructuring
- Tender and exchange offers
- Negotiated purchases
- Joint ventures
- Public and private company sales
- Venture capital-backed corporation acquisitions
- Anti-takeover advice