Mergers & Acquisitions

With over 150 M&A attorneys throughout our firm, we have the depth to assemble a complete team of lawyers that can react quickly to solve the most critical challenges facing businesses today.

EXPERIENCE

Our M&A attorneys have extensive experience advising clients engaged in a full range of domestic and cross-border public and private transactions, including acquisitions and divestitures, mergers, leveraged buyouts, going private transactions, strategic alliances and joint ventures.  We have developed significant industry-specific knowledge in many industries, including:

• Biotechnology
• Consumer products and services
• Energy
• Financial services
• Health care
• Insurance
• Media and digital technology
• Telecommunications

RECOGNITION

Our M&A practice has consistently been ranked in the highest tier nationwide.  For the first half of 2007, Mergerstat® ranked Alston & Bird #22 based on the number of U.S. announced deals, valued at $10.1 billion.  Corporate Control Alert ranked Alston & Bird 10th for the first half of 2007 in the category of counsel to financial advisors on U.S. M&A transactions.

WHY ALSTON & BIRD?

We operate based on two fundamental principles: first, that a client hires us to be facilitators, not roadblocks; and second, that we are there to protect the value of our client’s deal.  To these ends, we seek not only to identify issues and risks but to provide practical solutions.  We focus on our client’s business and long-term objectives and ascertain the elements of value in the deal for our client.  We take a fully integrated approach to assessing the risks that affect value, negotiate to minimize those risks, and structure the transaction so that the objectives are accomplished.