Corporate/M&A

Benesch's Corporate & Securities Practice Group represents dynamic businesses, both public and private, in matters of day-to-day counseling, capital formation, merger and acquisition activity, joint ventures and strategic alliances. We pride ourselves in being our clients' primary business and legal advisors and counselors. 

Benesch has been assisting multinational, middle market and emerging companies in connection with complex public and private mergers and acquisitions as well as joint ventures for more than 50 years.  ​

We counsel clients in all aspects of complex M&A transactions.  The types of M&A matters in which Benesch lawyers are engaged cover the full spectrum of negotiated and contested situations, including:

• Advance preparation/diligence for prospective targets
• Asset sales and purchases
• Mergers
• Corporate governance advice
• Joint ventures
• Leveraged buyouts
• Private equity
• Proxy contests
• Recapitalizations
• Stock sales and purchases
• Equity and debt offerings  

Benesch’s high degree of sophistication and expertise reflects the decades that our M&A lawyers have spent doing deals domestically and abroad.  Together with our high client service standards and entrepreneurial tradition, we are able to provide advice and assistance to our clients on a cost-effective basis.

Our team has completed hundreds of transactions in the past several years and we are experienced in working on transactions across the country and overseas.