Mergers & Acquisitions
With over 200 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 amongst the most active in the nation. For 2010, FactSet ranked Alston & Bird #14 under the category of 'Top US Advisors' based on U.S. announced deals ranked by transaction value. Mergermarket's 2010 rankings, placed Alston & Bird #9 in the category 'Legal Advisers to U.S. Buyouts' based on deal value, and #9 in the category of 'Legal Advisors to U.S. (South) M&A' based on deal value. Alston & Bird was also ranked #6 under the category of Six Month Banker Representation in Corporate Control Alert’s August/September 2010 Issue.
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.