Corporate/M&A

Stoel’s Oregon Corporate/M&A department is led by 17 experienced Portland-based partners, who collectively offer an unsurpassed level of knowledge and expertise that makes us the go-to resource for M&A by emerging companies and mature enterprises statewide. Our clients have high regard for our department’s practical thinking, hands-on participation, and unfailing responsiveness in their sales, buyouts, reorganizations, restructuring, and financings.

The industries in which we have significant expertise include energy and infrastructure, agribusiness, technology, manufacturing, financial services, health care, consumer products, timber and forest products, media, consulting, transportation, and aerospace. The range of industries in which we practice is a testament to the strength of Oregon’s economy and our long history of effective deal-making here.

Our attorneys counsel international, national, regional, and local companies on a diverse range of options for achieving their business and financial goals. In addition to providing advice and counsel on M&A transactions, they handle asset dispositions and spinoffs, entity formation, joint ventures, leveraged and management buyouts, structuring tax-efficient deals, succession planning, and transaction financing. Our work involving complex mergers and acquisitions that involve proxy fights or contested or cross-border transactions is always in demand.