Practice Areas
Mergers & Acquisitions
Our attorneys have diverse 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.
We regularly represent buyers and sellers in various types and sizes of public and private transactions throughout the local Chattanooga area, the Southeast region, and the entire nation. 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.
Our transaction attorneys 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 Transactions
- 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 abroad) by a public company that manufactures asphalt mixing plants and related equipment
- Sale of one of the South’s largest fast food franchises.