Mergers and Acquisitions

Waller Lansden has a large and active mergers and acquisitions practice.  We represent a number of public and private clients in a wide array of industries such as real estate, manufacturing, publishing, transportation, automotive and hospitality industries.  Our firm has particular experience with transactions involving regulated industries, such as healthcare, financial services, information technology and telecommunications.  Our attorneys have the wide range of experience needed to represent companies in complex business transactions, assisted by an interdisciplinary approach to address specialized aspects of each deal.

Waller Lansden has advised acquirors, targets, sellers, financial advisors, institutional investors, and special committees of public and private companies in both negotiated and contested transactions.  Our clients range from early stage high-technology companies to large seasoned private and public companies.

Active acquisition clients often rely on our firm to handle their transactional work as an extension of their in-house development capabilities.  We also act as local counsel in multi-state or international transactions or as special counsel where we have particular expertise, coordinating our efforts with lead counsel to ensure cost-effective representation.  Waller Lansden's strong corporate restructuring practice adds critical support to address the special challenges posed by acquiring or selling financially troubled companies.  When necessary, our dispute resolution practice is able to provide litigation support for such transactions, including the defense of shareholder lawsuits.

Waller Lansden's mergers and acquisitions practice includes:

• Mergers
• Asset purchases and sales
• Securities purchases and sales (stock, partnership interests, LLC interests)
• Corporate governance advice
• Proxy contests
• Joint ventures
• Roll-ups
• Recapitalizations, redomestications, spin-offs and split-offs
• Divestitures and unwinds
• Regulatory and compliance matters, such as antitrust, securities, healthcare, tax, ERISA/executive compensation, banking, insurance, franchising, labor and employment, intellectual property, and environmental issues
• Going private transactions
• Leveraged and management buyouts
• Tender offers