This chapter includes company acquisitions, dispositions and related financing arrangements, mergers, joint ventures capitalizations, entity selection and formation, operating and partnership agreements and governance matters. Also covers those transactions designed to help restructuring within companies and their subsidiaries by change of ownership. Priority is placed on primary representatives, those acting for buyers and sellers, whilst those acting for financial advisors, underwriters and the banks financing such transactions are also considered. This area covers corporate governance and transactional advice provided to alternative entities, such as Limited Partnerships, Limited Liability Companys, Limited Liability Partnerships and Special Purpose Corporations.