Mergers & Acquisitions

Our Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group represents a wide spectrum of publicly and privately held businesses, from Global 50 companies to venture backed start-ups, as well as private equity funds and investment banks. As a globally integrated team, our lawyers manage complex transactions with components in multiple jurisdictions throughout the world.

Our approach to M&A is to develop a thorough understanding of a client’s business objectives and strategies so that we can provide superior client service and results. Additionally, our ability to leverage our extensive industry experience and recognized areas of practice, such as tax, health and life sciences, intellectual property, energy, employee benefits, and antitrust and competition, across multiple offices, distinguishes our practice and adds value to each M&A transaction.

With more than 150 lawyers practicing on one integrated platform, McDermott’s M&A practice is recognized worldwide, and has been ranked in the top 20 in several deal tables by Bloomberg (Global Legal M&A and Global Financial M&A), Thomson Financial (Worldwide Rankings for M&A/Legal Advisors and Americas Rankings for M&A/Legal Advisors) and Mergermarket (Global M&A, North American M&A, Global Top Deals and North America Top Deals for 2007). In 2007, we also ranked among the top 15 M&A legal advisors (Bloomberg, Thomson Financial), in the top 15 legal advisors to global buyouts (Bloomberg, Mergermarket) and fifth in number of transactions for our financial advisory practice (Corporate Control Alert).