Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel's Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group consists of attorneys who have diverse and extensive legal experience in advising numerous businesses in connection with mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, divestitures, and joint ventures.  We work with financial and strategic buyers, lenders, accountants, and venture capital funds, and have a multi-disciplinary team capable of bringing transactions to successful conclusions.  Our attorneys are result-oriented and focus on achieving the objectives of our clients.
 
In our mergers and acquisitions practice, we regularly represent buyers and sellers in various types and sizes of public and private transactions. Our lawyers have experience in all aspects of these transactions, including:

• Conduct of legal and business due diligence
• Development of proposals and pricing strategies and negotiation of confidentiality agreements and letters of intent
• Development of transaction structures as they relate to tax, financing, labor, risk management, and other business objectives
• Negotiation of transaction agreements and related public and private debt and equity financing documents
• Successful consummation of transactions, including post-closing advice and representation.

The expertise available in the firm's other practice areas enables the Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group to use professionals whose experience is best suited to address the various issues that arise in merger and acquisition transactions.  Our transaction attorneys regularly work in combination with attorneys in our tax, labor, environmental, intellectual property, antitrust, and real estate groups, among others.  This team approach allows us to represent our clients in an efficient and cost-effective manner, while at the same time advancing their business objectives.

Recent representative transactions include:

• Acquisitions and sales of hospitals
• Acquisitions and sales for a privately-held company engaged in the construction and operation of wireless communication towers
• Acquisitions and sales of companies engaged in the wholesale distribution of electrical, plumbing, and related equipment and supplies
• Joint ventures between physicians groups and hospitals
• Merger of a large physician group with combined revenues in excess of $45 million
• Numerous stock and asset acquisitions (both in the USA and internationally) by a public company that manufactures asphalt mixing plants and related equipment
• Sale of one of the South’s largest fast food franchises.