Mergers & Acquisitions
Practical/Results-Oriented Approach and Creative Structuring Solutions
The Mergers and Acquisitions practice at ZLG represents privately-held companies, owners, and venture capital and private equity funds in an array of mergers and acquisition transactions that require extensive tax, securities, and other complex legal advice among many industries.
Our Mergers and Acquisitions practice does not only focus on the transaction itself – rather, we seek to add value in everything that we do by creatively structuring the transactions that afford our clients with the best position possible, taking into account tax, regulatory, and other legal issues and balancing them with the operational and other business objectives of our clients. This results-oriented, pragmatic approach enables us to not only add value to our clients, but also, in many instances, to create a “win-win” for all parties involved. Throughout the transaction lifecycle (including due diligence), we also get involved with related business and legal matters such as tax matters, corporate governance, reorganizations, transfer pricing, intellectual property licensing, employment and labor, regulatory issues, tax planning, and multi-jurisdictional securities offerings, to name a few.
Practice Overview
ZLG’s Mergers and Acquisitions practice focuses on pre-transaction planning, negotiating and documenting business mergers, acquisitions, recapitalizations, reorganizations, management buyouts, corporate divestitures and other liquidity transactions as well as providing assistance on tax and other related business and legal issues for our clients. Experienced attorneys from all relevant legal areas coordinate to provide the necessary experience for these transactions, including counsel on:
Private Equity/Venture Capital/Mezzanine
Sophisticated counsel at the forefront of deal-making in the middle market
Practice Overview
Our lawyers take the time to understand the full spectrum of the legal — as well as tax, financial, and business — considerations that shape a client’s financing and business combination transactions and our experience and industry relationships help our clients secure deals and build equity value.
Our attorneys represent early through late stage investors and companies, co-sponsors, independent sponsors, mezzanine lenders and financial institutions, covering the full life cycle of their investments and financings, including:
Add-on Acquisitions
Dividend Recapitalizations
Leveraged Buyouts
Exits and Liquidity Events
Growth Equity Investments
Co-investment Financings
Carve-outs
Spin-offs
Transaction Approach
ZLG’s lawyers represent private equity, venture capital and mezzanine funds, independent sponsors, portfolio companies, and early-stage, emerging growth, and expanding companies.
ZLG’s Mergers and Acquisitions practice focuses on negotiating and documenting business mergers, acquisitions, recapitalizations, reorganizations, liquidity events, and other divestiture transactions as well as providing assistance on tax and other related business and legal issues for our clients. Experienced attorneys from all relevant legal areas coordinate to provide the necessary experience for these transactions, including counsel on:
Structure
Tax
Employment
Real Estate
Intellectual Property
Government Contracts
Contracts
Corporate Governance
Securities
Our experience and industry relationships help our clients secure deals and build equity value. Our attorneys represent early through late stage investors and companies, lenders and financial institutions, covering the full life cycle of their investments and financings – including growth equity, add-on acquisitions, re-financings, dividend recaps, leveraged buyouts and exits. We guide our clients in traditional debt, equity and co-investment financings as well complex “carve outs”, recapitalizations, “turnaround” investments, and M&A.
As part of ZLG’s fund practice, we also have deep experience with minority-stake investments across a range of industries, representing investors who specialize in minority-only positions as well as lenders who take equity positions alongside sponsors.
Our experience allows us to understand majority owner’s motivations, anticipate potential areas of misalignment between a sponsor/majority owner and a minority investor, preserve key protections for our clients, and position our clients on the best possible footing for exit.
Our lawyers have also been successful in representing mezzanine funds in complex transactions, in large part because our prior experience representing equity investors, buyout sponsors, senior lenders and borrowers has allowed us to find creative solutions to challenging, multi-party negotiations.
When representing mezzanine funds, our lawyers also take the time to understand the full spectrum of the legal — as well as tax, financial, and business — considerations that shape their financing and business combination transactions.