Schulte Roth & Zabel is actively involved in sophisticated mergers and acquisitions transactions. We regularly represent private investment funds and their portfolio companies and we also have significant experience representing strategic companies and their boards of directors. Our long history as dedicated, problem solving lawyers has enabled us to successfully represent our clients in some of the most challenging M&A deals.
We are involved in a wide range of M&A transactions, including:
- Leveraged buyouts
- “Going private” transactions
- “Club” deals
- Tender offers and proxy contests
- Stock and asset acquisitions/divestures involving public and private companies
- Cross-border M&A
- Joint ventures
- Recapitalizations
- Spin-offs and carve-outs
- Non-control investments, including “PIPE”s
- Restructurings
We regularly represent clients on billion dollar-plus M&A deals and we also work on smaller sized transactions. We also have experience working on cross-border M&A transactions, teaming up with some of the most talented foreign law firms in the world.
Our M&A Group works seamlessly with lawyers from multiple disciplines within our firm. We have a proven track record in representing clients on complicated M&A transactions and we can be relied upon to deliver top quality legal advice on the most complex of M&A deals.
We continue to be recognized for our work. The following are several of our most recent awards and rankings.
- Ranked by mergermarket.com among top 20 legal advisers to U.S. buyouts by volume for 2010 and the first half of 2011 and among the top 10 legal advisers to U.S. buyouts by value for first quarter of 2011
- Recognized as having worked on one of 2010’s “Private Equity Deals of the Year” for the representation of DynCorp International Inc. in its sale to Cerberus Capital Management LP
- Investment Dealers’ Digest (IDD) magazine’s 2010 Deal of the Year award in the health care category for the representation of Cerberus Capital Management LP in its acquisition of Caritas Christi Health Care
- Marine Money’s 2010 Deal of the Year Award for the representation of American Petroleum Tankers in a corporate restructuring and related high-yield offering
- Ranked #1 in PIPE market league tables by PrivateRaise and PlacementTracker in 2011, and each year since 2008
Representative Experience