Michael Best represents clients in all types of transactions including mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, joint ventures, and other partnerships, as well as different types of finance and lending, and derivatives. Our Transactions team has deep experience with significant transactions, covering every angle from corporate governance and taxation to intellectual property licensing or environmental due diligence.
Service Areas
Mergers & Acquisitions
We structure, negotiate, and close transactions for a diverse array of clients, representing buyers and sellers, as well as management teams, minority owners, and final participants. We focus on middle-market transactions. In addition to traditional merger consolidations and asset and stock purchase transactions, we advise on recapitalizations, leveraged buyouts, spin-offs, reorganizations, and other complex restructurings.
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Joint Ventures
Our lawyers assist clients with domestic and international joint ventures in jurisdictions around the world. We have experience with an array of limited liability companies and partnerships, cooperatives, non-stock corporations, synthetic joint ventures created by contractual relationships, and other special-purpose entities. We advise businesses on major negotiating points, including formation issues, financial obligations, capital requirements, cash distribution provisions, governance, and transfer restrictions. In addition, we help our clients successfully wind up all of these kinds of entities.
International Transactions
We represent clients based in the U.S. and around the world in cross-border transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, restructurings, equity investments, divestures, securities issuances, and related matters.
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Best LuminEdge
Intellectual property assets are a crucial factor in corporate transactions today. That’s why Michael Best created our innovative Best LuminEdge system. We go beyond conventional IP due diligence to give our clients and their advisors an essential tool for understanding a company’s value, IP assets, the IP of competitors, and opportunities to improve ROI. For large M&A deals, partnerships, and investments, we deliver critical intelligence to inform business decisions before and after the close of a transaction.
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Commercial Finance & Lending
When organizations enter into relationships with lenders and other business partners, the terms of those agreements are critical and often complex. Michael Best provides guidance for mutually beneficial relationships across the entire spectrum of finance options.
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Derivatives
We advise dealers and end users on a full range of derivative products throughout the entire derivatives lifecycle, from the structuring and documenting of transactions to enforcement. We also offer special service packages for certain types of transactions, including high-volume loan amendment and documentation services.
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Creditors Rights, Bankruptcy, Reorganization, & Workouts
We have extensive experience offering counsel in situations of financial distress and potential default, representing distressed businesses as well as creditors.
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Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)
Our Transactional team handles the formation of, transaction related needs, and disposition of Employee Stock Ownership Plans. Our Employee Benefits Group also specializes in ESOP design, implementation, and operation. For more information on these services, please visit the Employee Benefits group webpage.