Mergers and Acquisitions Lawyers

Global M&A dealmakers by your side

Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures are a catalyst for business transformation. Our lawyers help you manage this change. With forward-thinking advice, we guide you through deal risks and onto the opportunities beyond closing.

Ranked #1 for global M&A by deal count for 15 years, we've handled nearly 10,000 transactions valued at more than USD1.5 trillion in total, making us the leader for global M&A. We know the commercial drivers of your transactions are unique, so we take a bespoke approach. You get pragmatic, commercial advice, however complex your deals, paving the way for a successful transaction.

Completing your M&A deal brings all kinds of challenges, from fluctuating economic environments to tightening regulatory regimes. We anticipate and address any issues that come up to help you adapt and comply. We act for all types of buyers, sellers and financial advisors, including public and private companies, private equity, venture investors and management teams.

“This team has tremendous M&A expertise across multiple disciplines. What makes them unique is their client focus. They quickly become immersed in understanding their client’s business issues and hot-button topics.”

Legal 500

We act on more M&A deals than any other law firm. In 2024 alone we advised on nearly 1,400 transactions worldwide, valued at over USD157 billion in total. And we cover every stage – from strategic planning through to post-close integration. We also advise on joint ventures and strategic alliances.

Our 1,000+ corporate lawyers are based in the jurisdictions where you do business. We offer an unrivalled combination of geographic coverage and specialist practice area advice, going to market in sector-focused teams covering industries such as technology, consumer goods, life sciences/healthcare, industrials, infrastructure and media, sports and entertainment and financial services. You get lawyers who know how your sector operates and its market pressures. They understand the dynamics; they know your objectives; they mitigate the risks.

We offer our clients unique insights into market trends and developments, leveraging the extensive data we have curated by doing more M&A deals than any other law firm. These insights include pricing mechanisms, earn-out terms, seller protections, the latest developments in deal insurance, insights into how dealmakers manage risks between signing and closing, how trends differ between markets and much more.

For any deal, whether you’re the buyer or seller, our focus is to make sure you succeed, both at the time of transacting and post-close. Working with lawyers across our global platform, you’ll enter new markets with confidence.

Experience

M&A experience

Expand All

Agilent Technologies (NYSE: A), a global leader in analytical and clinical laboratory technologies, delivering insights and innovation that help our customers bring great science to life, in its USD925 million acquisition of BioVectra
AlphaSense, a leading market intelligence and search platform, in connection with its USD930 million acquisition of Tegus, a leading provider of expert research, private company content, and financial data and workflow tools
Bluebeam, part of the Nemetschek Group, a global provider of software solutions for the AEC/O and media industries, on the acquisition of GoCanvas Holdings, Inc. and GoCanvas TopCo, LLC, a provider of field worker collaboration software that digitises traditionally paper-based processes, simplifies inspections, improves safety, and maximises compliance
Columbus Mckinnon, a global leader in automation, conveyance, lifting and linear motion products for various industries, in its USD2.7 billion acquisition of Kito Crosby Limited
POSCO in its USD240 million acquisition of 30% equity interest in the Ravensthorpe Nickel Operation in Western Australia
Polhem Infra, an infrastructure fund based in Stockholm, in its USD1.06 billion acquisition of Telia Carrier, a global provider of fiber optic internet networks
Ramsay Health Care in the GBP775 million acquisition of Elysium Healthcare
SLR Consulting Australia on its acquisition of a global mining advisory firm headquartered in Australia, with subsidiaries in Brazil, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Mongolia, the US and Turkey, from its publicly listed shareholder
Wipro Limited in all non-US and non-India aspects of the USD1.45 billion acquisition of Capco
Worldline in the acquisition of the card-acquiring activity of Handelsbanken in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland

AirTrunk on its landmark AUD24 billion sale to Blackstone, the largest transaction in the data centre industry to date and the largest transaction in Australia for 2024
Arcus Infrastructure Partners on aspects, including preparing a vendor due diligence report, of its sale to EQT Infrastructure of Constellation Cold Logistics, an independent cold storage logistics business in Europe with 26 large cold storage facilities across seven countries in Western Europe and the Nordics
ERG in the EUR1.2 billion sale of 100% of ERG Hydro, owner of about 527 of installed hydro plants in operation in Italy
Grant Thornton on its groundbreaking majority investment by Cinven. The investment will be the first private equity majority investment into a large accounting firm in the UK
Kunlun Energy Company in the disposal of its 60% interest in the PetroChina Beijing Gas Pipeline Co. and its 75% interest in PetroChina Dalian LNG Co. to the China Oil & Gas Pipeline Network Corporation for RBM40.89 billion
Noble Foods in its divestiture of its premium chilled desserts brand Gü to Exponent
Solarwinds (NYSE: SWI), a leading provider of simple, powerful, secure observability and IT management software, it its USD4.4 billion acquisition by Turn/River Capital
STORE Capital Corporation (NYSE: STOR), an internally managed net-lease real estate investment trust (REIT), in its USD15 billion acquisition by GIC (NYSE: GIC), a global institutional investor, in partnership with Oak Street, one of the largest net lease investors
The shareholders and management of Sciforma on the sale of the group to Planview
Weta Digital Limited and shareholders Sean Parker and Prem Akkaraju in the USD1.625 billion sale of Weta Digital’s VFX Tech Division to Unity Software

Barloworld (JSE: BAW) on all aspects of a c. USD1 billion cash offer from a consortium including the Barloworld CEO and Saudi Arabian-based Zahid Group to acquire all of the issued shares in Barloworld (save for certain excluded shares), by way of scheme of arrangement or standby general offer, and delist Barloworld from the JSE
Deere & Company (NYSE: DE) in its cross-border acquisition of Kreisel Electric, a battery technology developer and manufacturer based in Austria
Kadmon Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: KDMN), a biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, and markets transformative therapies for disease areas of significant unmet medical needs, in its acquisition by global biopharmaceutical company Sanofi S.A
Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX), an Austin, Texas-based company that develops, manufactures and sells proprietary biological testing technologies and products, in its USD1.8 billion all-cash acquisition by DiaSorin, an Italian biotechnology company
MKS Instruments (NASDAQ: MKSI) in the USD6.5 billion acquisition of Atotech, a leading process chemicals technology company backed by Carlyle Group
Philip Morris International (NYSE: PM) in:

its recommended public offer to the shareholders of Swedish Match AB, which values Swedish Match at approximately USD16 billion
its recommended public offer for Vectura Group, which values Vectura at approximately GBP1 billion
its USD$820 million acquisition of Fertin Pharma

Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) and its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., in its USD1.4 billion acquisition of NUVIA, a world-class CPU and technology design company
Renesas Electronics (TKS: 6723), a Japan-based company that manufactures and distributes semiconductor components and other products, in its USD6 billion acquisition of Altium (ASX: ALU), a technology company providing specialized software for the design of printed circuit boards
T-Mobile (NAS: TMUS), the second-largest wireless carrier in the United States, in its lease and acquisition of up to USD3.3 billion of spectrum from Comcast (NAS: CMCSA)
W. P. Carey Inc. (NYSE: WPC) in its acquisition of Corporate Property Associates 18 – Global Incorporated (CPA:18) for approximately USD2.7 billion in cash and stock

BASF SE, a global chemicals manufacturing company based in Germany, in its joint venture with DOMO Chemicals for the production of adipic acid
Cohesity, a provider of enterprise data storage solutions with a focus on secondary data, in its joint ventures with SoftBank Corp. and SoftBank Vision Fund in Japan and Singapore
Daimler Truck on a 50/50 joint venture with Aktiebolaget Volvo to develop a common software-defined vehicle platform and dedicated truck operating system
Dundee Partners, the investment office of the Hendel family, together in a joint venture with global investment firm KKR, in the acquisition of the KMR Music Royalties II portfolio from Kobalt Capital Limited for approximately USD1.1 billion
Falck Renewables in its joint venture with BlueFloat Energy for the joint development of offshore wind projects in Italy
Fortress REIT in its joint venture with Inospace Proprietary in respect of a combined warehouse, logistics, storage, and work space property portfolio
PTT Public Company, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Innobic, in its joint venture agreement with Nove Foods for the development, manufacturing, sale and marketing of plant-based products
SIFI in its joint venture with AffaMed Therapeutics to develop, manufacture and commercialize premium innovative intraocular lenses in the Greater China market
T-Mobile (NAS: TMUS), America's 5G leader and fastest-growing fixed wireless broadband provider, in a definitive agreement to establish a joint venture with leading global investment firm KKR (NYSE: KKR) that will acquire Metronet including its broadband infrastructure, rapidly growing residential fiber business operations and existing customers
Warner Bros Discovery Inc in its 50:50 joint venture with BT Group plc to create a new premium sport offering for the UK & Ireland and to transfer the operating businesses of BT Sport to Warner Bros Discovery