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

Iron Mountain Inc.'s $1.6 billion stock-for-stock merger with Pierce Leahy Corp.
American Tower Corporation's $260 million cash purchase of 2,000 communication towers (including a build-to-suit for an additional 1,000 towers) from AT&T Corp.
Brooks Pharmacy's $240 million purchase of 85 Osco Drug pharmacies and development properties located in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine
Senior Housing Properties Trust's $600 million stock purchase in subsidiaries of Crestline, owners of 31 senior living facilities operated by Marriott FT
ADE Corporation's $470 million cash merger (originally structured as a stock-for-stock merger) with KLA-Tencor Corporation
Interactive Data's $48 million purchase of Merrill Lynch's securities pricing service
Advantage School, Inc.'s $40 million sale to Mosaica Education, Inc.
Represented large publicly traded technology company in a $200 million acquisition of a privately held target: Despite complications related to shareholder trusts, which threatened to jeopardize tax benefits, Sullivan & Worcester closed the acquisition on time and with expected benefits secure