O’Melveny works with corporate and investor clients to design and execute M&A programs that achieve strategic growth and critical financial objectives. True partners to our clients throughout the process, we go well beyond negotiating and structuring deals to add tangible business value. That means vetting financial advisors, introducing financing options, and leveraging our considerable professional network to generate opportunities and dealflow for clients.
Our practice is built to serve clients, offering a strong international platform with experienced lawyers on both coasts of the US, as well as in key commercial centers in Asia and Europe. In addition, we provide deep knowledge of industry issues, including in the technology, entertainment and media, energy, infrastructure, industrials, and consumer sectors. The result is the right kind of support our clients need as they pursue growth opportunities, wherever those opportunities may arise.
- Our highly active team regularly ranks among the top firms in league tables published by Bloomberg, Mergermarket, Mergerstat, and ThomsonReuters.
- Our lawyers possess fluency in the full range of M&A-related activities, from acquisitions and divestitures to growth investments, leveraged acquisitions, private equity buyouts, take-privates, carve-outs and spin-offs, joint ventures, and seasoned counseling in hostile or contested situations (e.g., shareholder activism, takeover defense planning and execution, shareholder rights plans, and strategic boardroom-level counseling).
- Comprised of experienced deal lawyers resident in key commercial centers in the United States, Asia, and Europe, our team is adept at delivering world-class legal services across cultural, language, and geographic boundaries.
- In today’s environment, dealmakers face intricate regulatory requirements, national security concerns, and political considerations. Our team includes lawyers who have held senior positions in the White House, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Labor, the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Securities and Exchange Commission to help clients successfully navigate these issues.
Broad Strengths
- Asset purchases and sales
- Auctions
- Contested transactions
- Financial-advisor representations
- “Going private” transactions
- Joint ventures
- Leveraged buyouts
- Mergers
- Proxy contests
- Recapitalizations
- Spin-offs and split-offs
- Stock purchases and sales
- Takeover preparedness and advice
- Tender offers