Mergers & Acquisitions
Overview
Conner & Winters routinely handles corporate mergers and acquisitions of all types and in all industries, ranging from energy and manufacturing to health care. We regularly assist with mergers and acquisitions and with the disposition of businesses, assets and divisions for public and private companies, private equity funds, venture capital groups and institutional lenders. Our experience ranges from local to multinational transactions that involve numerous types of equity and asset acquisitions, dispositions and financings. We have provided counsel and assistance in the acquisition, consolidation, spin-off and sale of business entities in transactions valued from several million dollars to several billion dollars. The firm’s capabilities allow us to provide counsel in numerous related areas, such as tax, bankruptcy, securities, banking and finance, real estate, benefits, labor and employment, and litigation so that our clients receive full service when they buy or sell a business.
We provide counsel and assistance on matters such as:
- Acquisitions and dispositions of businesses though equity transactions, asset transactions and mergers
- Acquisitions and dispositions of subsidiaries, assets, facilities and product lines
- Acquisitions and sales of oil and gas properties
- Public and private company auctions
- Due diligence
- Recapitalizations
- Investments by minority stakeholders
- Consolidations and spin-off transactions
- Private equity
- Antitrust issues
- Leveraged buyouts
- Acquisitions of distressed assets
- Tender offers
- Joint ventures
- Acquisition financings
- Obtaining fairness opinions