Mergers and Acquisitions

Orrick’s corporate lawyers play a significant role in planning and executing mergers and acquisitions, regularly representing both buyers and sellers in M&A transactions for Fortune 500, as well as middle-market companies. We have exceptional skills in structuring and negotiating deals from the acquisition or merger of a large, complex multi-national institution to the acquisition or sale of a small company.

In recent years, we have closed more than $25 billion in M&A transactions, including the representation of a joint venture acquisition of a $2.1 billion real estate investment trust listed on the New York Stock Exchange that owns over 360 industrial properties across the United States.

We are currently handling large distressed asset transactions in the energy and airline industries, an area of particular expertise for Orrick.

Our work regularly includes leveraged buy-outs, purchases and sales of divisions and subsidiaries, going-private transactions, spin-off reorganizations, and recapitalizations.

In takeover defense matters, we counsel clients on defensive strategies against unsolicited or hostile takeovers and work closely with our litigators to assist the client’s management and insurgents engaged in proxy contests.