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When the time is right to grow or sell your business, you need trusted legal advisors who truly understand you, your business, and your industry's unique dynamics. Baker Donelson's mergers and acquisitions team emphasizes collaboration, working closely with clients new to M&A as well as seasoned dealmakers. We focus on understanding your definition of success and partnering to achieve it through transactions that build, preserve, or capture maximum value.

Our team of more than 100 M&A lawyers advises clients nationwide and internationally, handling a full range of transactions, including stock and asset acquisitions, mergers, going-private transactions, corporate spin-offs, joint ventures, and ESG-related deals, including due diligence and sale preparation.

We bring deep industry expertise spanning technology, hospitality, franchising, financial services, energy, manufacturing, biomedical, retail, aviation, gaming, and transportation. Our multidisciplinary teams combine skills across corporate governance, tax, securities law, ERISA, labor and employment, environmental, intellectual property, and evolving ESG considerations.

This comprehensive, client-focused approach ensures that each transaction is strategically aligned with your business goals and market position. We help clients navigate complex regulatory environments, competitive pressures, and evolving legal landscapes to achieve successful, value-driven outcomes that support long-term growth and sustainability.

Chambers Review

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Corporate/M&A - Maryland

3
Band 3

What the Team is Known For

Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC has a strong corporate group representing midmarket businesses and investors in a range of transactional work, including multijurisdictional M&A deals, as well as advising on corporate governance. The team offers wider strengths in regulatory compliance issues, including advising corporates on disclosures before the SEC. The law firm notably acts on transactions in the real estate sector, as well as advising private equity funds on their activity.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Kenneth Abel
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Kenneth Abel
3
Band 3
Kenneth Abel is an accomplished corporate practitioner with wide-ranging expertise encompassing M&A and financing transactions, as well as public offerings. He acts for a range of REITs, private equity funds and corporates.

Kenneth is a fantastic, sophisticated and experienced lawyer. He is a pleasure to work with.

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Kenneth Abel
3
Kenneth Abel
3
Band 3

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