Mergers & Acquisitions

Each year we facilitate M&A transactions worth billions of dollars. Recent transactions range in size from a $1 billion acquisition for a New York Stock Exchange listed company, to a $1 million purchase of a distribution business in the Midwest. Our clients include: large public companies with aggressive acquisition programs; a nationally known buyout firm; foreign enterprises expanding into the U.S.; and technology companies and family-owned businesses seeking liquidity. We are known as skillful tax planners and have the demonstrated practice experience to handle the employment, antitrust, intellectual property and real estate issues that M&A transactions involve. Our goal is to provide comprehensive legal advice that enables clients to evaluate, negotiate and successfully close their deals.

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Representative Client Work

• Represented Iron Mountain Incorporated in its $112 million acquisition of Mimosa Systems, Inc., a leader in enterprise-class content archiving solutions
• Advised American Tower Corporation in the acquisition of over 70 wireless communications towers and related assets
• Represented Enexis Holding N.V., the largest electric and gas grid operator in the Netherlands, in its de-merger from Essent N.V. In the transaction certain Essent business units were combined under the ownership of Enexis Holding N.V. and spun off to the shareholders of Essent. The de-merger was the result of a Dutch law forcing utilities to separate their generation and transmission businesses
• Advised Hospitality Properties Trust in its approximately $2.6 billion acquisition of TravelCenters of America, Inc., the largest full-service travel center business in the United States
• Advised Where Inc., a Boston-based location media company, in its recent acquisition by PayPal, a division of eBay Inc.
• Represented Emptoris, Inc., a supply and contract management software provider, in its sale by auction to Marlin Equity Partners