Corporate/M&A

Faced with increasingly tenuous economic and regulatory environments, companies and individuals pursuing acquisitions, divestitures or other corporate reorganizations need experienced counsel who can negotiate and guide financially sound, growth-oriented and defensible transactions.

Snell & Wilmer’s mergers and acquisitions attorneys are well-versed in providing strategic, innovative legal and business services for complicated corporate transactions. We have extensive experience with transactions in a variety of industries, including highly regulated industries where the intersection of business and government requires a particularly strategic and risk-sensitive approach. Our experience, coupled with deep industry knowledge, allows us to provide thoughtful, innovative and comprehensive solutions.

Our M&A attorneys provide a range of services:

• Government and regulatory agency compliance
• Due diligence review
• Drafting and negotiation of acquisition and related agreements
• SEC registration
• Hart-Scott-Rodino Act filings
• Preparing prospectuses and offering memoranda
• Stockholder rights plans
• Stock option and severance plans
• Confidentiality agreements
• Intellectual property asset management

Our clients include sellers, buyers, investors, banks, bankers, venture capital firms, private equity firms, institutional lenders, independent directors, committees, management groups, creditors and creditor committees. We handle transactions in both regulated and unregulated industries.