Overview
– Chambers USA
The firm has successfully handled some of the highest-profile and most complex campaigns in the history of investor engagement. Working closely with the full range of our capabilities, the Shareholder Activism Group takes a holistic approach to counseling clients on every phase of engagements with public companies and their leadership teams.
We advise established activists, shareholders that use activist strategies only occasionally and first-time engaged investors, including on assessment of investment opportunities, capital deployment and investment execution, private engagement, business proposals, settlement negotiations and cooperation agreements, proxy contests, alternative activism strategies, hostile takeovers, and contested M&A transactions.
The firm has the activism track record that it does because we bring to bear not only lawyers with deep experience in strategy and corporate governance, but M&A dealmakers, seasoned litigators and practitioners with a focus in securities law compliance matters. Our clients’ ability to call upon shareholder-focused advisers across the legal spectrum and throughout the activism lifecycle puts them in a position to confidently secure desirable investment outcomes.
We know that activist campaigns are primarily a means to a more significant end, which is why, from the outset, our Shareholder Activism Group works with the broader objectives underlying activism in full view. This approach has earned us a reputation as creative, dedicated and thoughtful counselors with a comprehensive understanding of our clients’ businesses.