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Mergers & Acquisitions
Group Leader: John
Fogg
Some of the most important transactions for Hutchison Law Group clients involve the buying and selling of companies or significant assets. We actively work with clients considering or engaged in M&A activity through the following:
- Exploring strategic directions for the business, including advantages, disadvantages and limitations of potential M&A transactions
- Assessing feasibility of transactions, including the availability of financing as a means of acquiring a business or as an alternative to selling a business
- Identifying potential targets or potential acquirors and, if applicable, introducing investment bankers to structure a buy or sell process
- Structuring a transaction in a manner that is tax-advantaged, while keeping the business goals of the client in mind
- Drafting and negotiating the Letter of Intent
- Assisting the client through the due diligence process and supporting the production and/or review of documents
- Providing a roadmap for the transaction and post-transaction integration, and keeping the parties moving along that roadmap
- Drafting and negotiating the definitive documents
- Advising on tax, securities, employment, employee benefit and liability issues
- Advising on intellectual property ownership, transfer, and related issues
- Coordinating board, shareholder and third-party (including regulatory agencies in some cases) approvals required to consummate the transaction
- Closing the transaction, including any necessary filings with governmental agencies and monitoring the transfers of funds
- Continued advising with respect to employment and employee benefit issues involved in integrating one business into another
- Post-closing assistance with various matters including non-competition covenants and contingent consideration (earn-outs)
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