Morgan Lewis

Mergers & Acquisitions

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Honors

  • Buy side advisor in Buyouts' Deal of the Year and Middle Market Deal of the Year (2010) between Ovation Pharmaceuticals and H. Lundbeck

  • Sell side advisor in Buyouts' Turnaround of the Year (2010) as Sun Capital Partners sold Tarami K.K. to Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance Company

  • Ranked Top 10 – M&A transactions: Thomson Reuters, Mergermarket, Bloomberg, and Buyouts (2011)

  • U.S. Announced Counsel to Principals - Ranked by Deal Count: 10th - Bloomberg

  • U.S. M&A Announced - Ranked by Deal Count: 18th - Mergermarket

  • U.S. Announced Adviser Rankings Based on Number of Transactions with Undisclosed and Disclosed Values Up to and Including $500M: 8th - Buyouts

  • Any UK Involvement Announced - Ranked by Volume: 8th - Thomas Reuters

  • Ranked as a leading firm by Chambers USA 2011 in the following areas: Transactional firm in New York, California, Pennsylvania, District of Columbia, and New Jersey

Morgan Lewis’s Mergers and Acquisitions Practice handles million- to multibillion-dollar transactions for a diverse, global clientele—sellers, buyers, and investors; investment and commercial banks; private equity and venture capital funds; institutional lenders; independent director committees; and management groups—in virtually every significant regulated and unregulated industry in the U.S. and abroad. We routinely negotiate purchases and divestitures by public and private companies, tender offers, restructurings, joint ventures, spin-offs, leveraged buy-outs, and public-to-private transactions. The group also advises on structuring various takeover defense mechanisms for many of the firm’s corporate clients.

Our Mergers and Acquisitions team consists not only of business lawyers but attorneys who focus on other common, often industry-specific areas of legal concern in acquisitions and divestitures, including environmental issues; labor and employment or employee benefits and executive compensation matters; and government contracts, intellectual property rights, tax issues, and regulatory challenges. For our clients, the value of this coordinated approach lies in our ability to provide high-caliber, integrated legal advice covering all areas of concern.