Mergers & Acquisitions

Our team has extensive experience in complex M&A transactions, including private equity deals, representing both publicly traded and privately held buyers and sellers. Our attorneys have structured and negotiated taxable and tax-free transactions of all types with cash, securities or a combination as the consideration. We have successfully closed transactions ranging in size from less than a million dollars to more than $100 million. M&A clients we advised in connection with the structuring, negotiation and documentation of their transactions include:

• A private equity fund in the sale of Seacon Phoenix, Inc., a provider of undersea electrical interconnect subsystems to the global submarine market, in a stock purchase transaction with Ametek, Inc., (NYSE: AME) for $38 million in cash
• GreenMan Technologies (OTCBB: GMTI), a provider of renewable fuels and innovative recycled products, in the sale of its tire recycling operations for $27,900,000
• Conrad Fafard, a North American producer of packaged growing media, in its acquisition by Swiss-based, agribusiness Syngenta Global for $133,500,000
• Openera, a leading provider of mobile application handset solutions, in its acquisition by NMS Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: NMSS) for $16,400,000 in NMS stock
• Micronetics (NASDAQ: NOIZ), a designer and manufacturer of wireless components and test equipment in its acquisition of Stealth Microwave with financing provided by TD BankNorth.
  

The acquisition or disposition of a business is perhaps the most significant and complex — and emotional — business transaction the parties involved may ever undertake. Accordingly, we apply all of our experience and interpersonal and technical skills to develop the legal framework and structure of the transaction, to negotiate the best deal possible for our client, to draft the transaction documents unambiguously, and to manage the closing mechanics. We also bring to bear our broad experience and judgment to counsel our clients in practical ways to maintain focus on the key issues and the big picture, and to move the deal forward expeditiously.

For more information about our M&A services, please contact Carl Barnes or Joseph Marrow.