Benefit From Our Experience Driving Global M&A Transactions
Leading multinationals, major commercial and investment banks, entrepreneurs and smaller visionaries alike have turned to our global team of more than 500 M&A lawyers to structure thousands of complex transactions with precision and speed. They include intricately structured domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures and equity investments, including many multi-billion dollar deals involving multiple jurisdictions.
With extensive experience in the international arena, our lawyers have the knowledge, infrastructure, technical capability and strategic perspective that are invaluable in helping you select, implement and coordinate your strategies around the world. Our team assists you in synthesizing and rationalizing the diverse legal regimes applicable to implementing your most complex cross-border transactions.
A Recognized Global Leader in M&A Transactions
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Thomson Financial ranked White & Case among the Top 10 law firms worldwide for M&A Completed Deals in 2008 & 2007
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mergermarket ranked our Firm the #1 US-originated law firm for European M&A (based on deal volume over a three-year period from 2005 — 2008)
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Bloomberg ranked White & Case #1 Law Firm for Eastern European Announced Deals for 2008
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Legal 500 USA 2008 & 2007 ranked White & Case among the Top National Practices for M&A: Mega-deals.
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PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook 2008 & 2007 listed our Practice as a Global Area of Excellence for the Firm
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Chambers Global 2008 ranked White & Case a Tier One Global Corporate/M&A (Highly Regarded) Practice
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Financial Times and mergermarket M&A Awards named White & Case the Business Services Sector M&A Law Firm of the Year 2007
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Bloomberg ranked White & Case among the Top 10 law firms globally for M&A Announced Deals in 2008 & 2007
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Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2007 ranked White & Case a Tier One Corporate/M&A Practice
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Our Global Presence Gives You the Advantage
In both domestic and international transactions, our clients have immediate access to a wide range of legal experience. We provide creative solutions to the regulatory, tax, accounting and competition law problems inherent in today's corporate transactions. In most of the countries in which we have offices, we advise on local law. Our global presence and critical mass of lawyers in each location ensures local legal advice at standards essential for such transactions, and the economies that result from experienced, coordinated transaction management.
As one of the most active law firms in the world in M&A transactions, White & Case has taken the lead in devising creative deal structures, designing acquisition programs and planning and implementing strategies for both acquirers and potential acquisition targets in domestic and cross-border transactions. These transactions often involve global due diligence and regulatory approvals, particularly from competition authorities. Transactions include:
- Cross-Border and Domestic Deals
- Public and Private Mergers
- Domestic Transactions
- Equity Investments
- Joint Ventures
- Leveraged Buyouts
- Tender & Exchange Offers
- Unsolicited Offers
- Private Equity Funding
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- Privatizations
- Proxy Contests
- Recapitalizations
- Reverse Mergers
- Spin-offs and Dispositions
- Negotiated Acquisitions, including
acquisitions of financially troubled companies | Private Equity: A Key Component of Our M&A Practice
Our private equity team plays an integral role in our M&A practice. We have the ability to provide in-depth private equity advice that, coupled with the seamless integration of our global offices and experience in all major areas of law, sets us apart from our competitors.
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