Mergers & Acquisitions

If M&A is part of your strategic plan, mergers and acquisitions lawyers and tax specialists will help you through all aspects of planning, negotiating and completing the transaction. Whether targeting businesses in the UK or globally we can:

• review the financial information and look at the tax implications
• help shape offers
• negotiate Heads of Terms
• drive legal due diligence and processes
• help you achieve completion

There are many reasons why a company might wish to merge or acquire another company, encompassing numerous types of company restructuring approaches, although there always has to be strategic reasoning behind the transaction to ensure its success.

Our M&A team are highly experienced in conducting strategic transactions, have deep understanding of the business dynamics in key industries and can support management during this period of commercial scrutiny and change.  Our team are experts in conducting due diligence and know the right questions to ask to ensure a corporate transaction is in the best interest of our client.

Mergers and acquisitions create value for the companies in different ways, and it is important from the outset to understand the driving forces behind the transaction which could include one or a number of commercial motivations:

• Improve performance – synergistic mergers can hugely improve the performance of both entities through economies of scale, improved operating profits and reduced overheads, increased market share and impact. 
• Accelerate growth – M&A is a fast way to enter a new market or increase penetration in existing sectors.
• Acquire expertise – an acquisition can be a good way to acquire proven technologies, unique skill sets to boost innovation, or diversify offerings rather than trying to develop them in-house over time.
• Remove Excess capacity there often comes a point when a company is in maturity and might reach excess capacity, which can result in a strategic decision to focus on quality rather than quantity and divest part of the business.
• Roll-up – if a market is fragmented and lacks economies of scale, a roll up strategy of multiple small acquisitions can provide great operational efficiency and improved market share.
• Remove the Competition – Eliminating competitors through acquisition enables competitive advantage, a larger market share, and long-term cost cutting opportunities.