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Mergers and Acquisitions


“Our firm’s culture emphasizes that a successful merger and acquisition transaction must be a collaborative team effort utilizing our team of lawyers who have in-depth knowledge and experience across different subject matters such as corporate, commercial, and securities laws, regulatory compliance, intellectual property, finance, labor and employment, tax and others.”


Our Mergers and Acquisitions practice represents a key focus at Hochheiser & Akmal. Our lawyers have extensive experience in acquisitions and dispositions in a wide range of industries including manufacturing, aerospace, distribution, healthcare, and technology. Our firm’s culture emphasizes that a successful merger and acquisition transaction must be a collaborative team effort utilizing our team of lawyers who have in-depth knowledge and experience across different subject matters such as corporate, commercial, and securities laws, regulatory compliance, intellectual property, finance, labor and employment, tax and others.

H&A assists clients with acquisitions and divestitures, mergers, consolidations, reorganizations, recapitalizations, and spin-offs. This assistance includes strategic guidance and planning for M&A transactions, due diligence preparation and management, preparation of a confidential information memorandum, evaluation of deal points, negotiation and drafting of letters of intent and a definitive purchase agreement, and closing of the deal. Our goal is to assist clients through all phases of the M&A process and to provide post-closing support to ensure successful separation or integration.

For sellers, our approach is designed to protect the seller’s interest and the financial objective of the transaction by limiting purchase price erosion and seller’s post-closing liability and exposure. This is accomplished by performing a uniquely tailored due diligence cleansing prior to the sale, implementing a confidential bidding process when appropriate to optimize purchase price, understanding when a seller has the most leverage and how to use that leverage to negotiate key terms to prevent price erosion and post-closing liability.
For buyers, our approach is designed to identify and understand the issues and exposures related to the acquisition of the target company, develop unique solutions to achieve this result so that the buyer is able to capture the anticipated value without the risk of unforeseen exposures or risks.