M&A REPRESENTATION
Move the deal forward.
Legal representation for buyers, sellers, and organizations combining their operations, from early terms through diligence, negotiation, and closing.
Legal help at
each stage.
You can engage us for a specific stage or for the transaction as a whole.
BEFORE A DEAL
Transaction Readiness Review
Identify gaps in contracts, ownership, and records before a proposed sale, investment, or combination.
BEFORE SIGNING AN LOI
LOI Review & Negotiation
Evaluate the proposed economics, exclusivity, and other commitments before they shape the rest of the transaction.
DURING THE TRANSACTION
Transaction Diligence
Assess the legal issues in the data room and connect findings to the terms, approvals, and closing work.
Representation shaped by the transaction.
We advise owner-led companies, professional firms, associations, and nonprofits on the terms, risks, and approvals that matter to their deal.
Selling a business
Prepare for diligence, negotiate the LOI and purchase agreement, and address price adjustments, earnouts, indemnities, and closing. Coordinate the legal work with your financial advisers.
Buying a business
Structure the acquisition, investigate legal risk, negotiate purchase terms, and plan for the obligations that continue after closing. Post-Closing Integration can also be scoped separately.
Associations and nonprofit combinations
Advise on mergers, affiliations, chapter consolidations, and asset transfers, including board and member approvals, tax-exempt requirements, and the governance of the combined organization.
Professional firm transitions
Ownership succession, partner buyouts, and firm combinations, including the client consent and licensing issues those raise.
HOW WE NEGOTIATE
Protect the value of the deal.
We evaluate the terms together: purchase price, adjustments, earnouts, indemnities, closing conditions, and obligations that continue after closing.
We explain where risk should be priced, shared, or addressed before signing, and negotiate positions the business can carry out. If new information changes the case for proceeding, we put that decision back on the table.
Scope and fees,
agreed up front.
We agree on scope, fees, and timing before work begins. Changes to the engagement are discussed and approved before additional work proceeds.
One stage
Readiness, LOI review, or diligence can be scoped independently. A focused assignment does not commit you to retaining us for the full transaction.
The full transaction
Representation can cover structure, diligence, negotiation, approvals, and closing. The scope and estimate reflect the transaction’s complexity, documents, and timetable.
Tell us about your transaction.
Tell us what is proposed, where the deal stands, and any approaching deadline. We will follow up within one business day.