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 have experience 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 focus 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
EXPERIENCE
- Imatron Inc. Represented Imatron Inc. in connection with the $200 million sale of the medical equipment manufacturer to a division of General Electric.
- MySpace.com, Inc. Represented the management of this company in connection with the sale of its parent to a subsidiary of News Corporation.
- Secret Level, Inc. Represented this privately-held computer game company in connection with its sale to Sega Holdings, Inc.
- U.S. Aggregates, Inc. Represented U.S. Aggregates, Inc., a producer of aggregates, in the sale of its assets to Oldcastle Materials Inc. for approximately $145 million.
- Tahiti Beachcomber SA. Represented the hospitality company in the acquisition of the Paul Gauguin luxury cruise liner and reservation booking company.
- E-LOAN, Inc. Acted as special counsel to the management of E-LOAN, Inc. in connection with its acquisition by Popular, Inc. for $260 million. We also acted as regular securities counsel to E-LOAN, Inc. prior to its merger.
- Honolua Surf Co. Represented Honolua Surf Co., a 19-store retail clothing network, in its sale to Billabong International, Ltd., Australia's largest publicly-traded surf wear manufacturer.
- Horizon Photonics, Inc. Represented Horizon Photonics, Inc., a manufacturer of optical components for telecommunications, in its $36 million merger with Lightpath Technologies, Inc.
- Multilink Technology Corporation. Represented Multilink, a provider of advanced components used in high-speed optical networks, in its $72 million initial public offering and subsequent acquisition by Vitesse Semiconductor Company.
- Oakwood Worldwide. Represented Oakwood Worldwide, the largest corporate housing owner and developer in the United States, in a UPREIT roll-up transaction involving more than 20 different partnerships and 30 properties.
- William Morris Agency. Represented William Morris Agency (now WME-Entertainment) in its consolidation with Endeavor Talent Agency and certain post merger transactions. We also represented WMA in its prior acquisition of other agencies and in a number of financing transactions and joint ventures.
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