Corporate/M&A

Gray Reed’s Corporate/M&A Practice Group counsels privately held and public companies, management teams, founders, private equity funds and other equity sponsors in a broad range of industries in their capacity as buyers, sellers, operators, investors or issuers. Transactions range in size, span the entire life cycle of a business and include:

• Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures of assets and equity securities, including private equity fund roll-up and bolt-on acquisitions, management and employee leveraged buy-outs and divestitures with equity rollover components;
• Minority and majority equity investments and recapitalizations; 
• Complex partnership structures, including the creation of complex distribution waterfalls and management co-investment and profits interest opportunities; 
• Private and public offerings of securities, including IPOs and SPACs;
• Competitive bidding transactions, including representing debtors, stalking horse bidders and other bidders in bankruptcy 363 sales; 
• Fund formation, including private placement memoranda, governing documents, management agreements and securities filings; and
• Debt financings representing both borrowers and lenders, including bridge convertible, senior, subordinated and mezzanine debt arrangements.