Mergers & Acquisitions
Allen Matkins’ mergers and acquisitions practice group provides in-depth advice to a wide range of entities in financial transactions. Our clients include:
- Acquirers and targets
- Management groups
- Significant stockholders
- Secured lenders
- Investment banking firms
- Acquisition vehicles such as joint ventures, buy-out funds and mezzanine debt funds
We specialize in transactions such as:
- Private and public merger and acquisition transactions
- Strategic alliances
- Corporate partnering
- Joint ventures
- Stock purchases, asset purchases and stock swaps
- Tender and exchange offers
- Reorganizations, reincorporations and restructurings
- Spin-offs and roll-ups
- Leveraged buyouts
- Auction transactions
Key areas of expertise include:
- Advising on poison pills and other defensive measures
- Providing structuring advice
- Dealing with the SEC, FTC and Justice Department
- Assisting with due diligence investigations
- Negotiating and drafting acquisition agreements and related documents
- Counseling boards of directors and special committees
- Advising bankers on fairness opinions
We work on a variety of documents and agreements related to the merger and acquisition process, such as:
- Letters of intent
- Confidentiality agreements and no-shop agreements
- Offering memoranda and proxy statements
- Information statements and tender offer documents
- Hart-Scott-Rodino Act reports
- SEC registration statements
- Consulting and non-competition agreements
- Employment agreements
- Severance plans
