Clients ranging from the world’s leading businesses to successful start-ups regularly rely on our extensive experience, particularly in middle-market mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Clients retain us for the quality of our service, along with our experience, responsiveness and fee structure. Our M&A team has substantial experience and delivers quality deal counsel at value. We facilitate transactions without over-lawyering or being an impediment to getting them done. We also prioritize creating a positive deal experience for our clients who appreciate our ‘to the point’ counsel and the speed at which we progress transactions.
We offer comprehensive legal counsel, guidance and support throughout all stages of a transaction including:
- Pre-transaction planning (including reorganization, if needed) & counsel;
- Due diligence;
- Transaction structuring;
- Transaction negotiation;
- Closing and
- Post-closing matters.
Dinsmore’s nationwide locations and bench depth ensure we have the capacity to manage and advise clients on all legal issues that may arise in a transaction, including tax, benefits, labor, real estate, IP, data privacy and security, commercial finance, securities, regulatory and compliance matters.
M&A Banking & Financial Services
Banks, thrifts, holding companies, and other financial services clients look to us for our counsel on mergers and acquisitions transactions involving geographic and business line expansion and divestiture. Our experience with hundreds of public and private transactions enables us to guide clients through the regulatory, corporate, securities, employment, tax, ERISA, real estate, integration, and other issues present in any given transaction.
Clients who want to tap into public and private capital markets look to us, because we represent clients in initial public offerings, private placements, special exempt transactions (e.g., intrastate offerings), hybrid securities offerings, and subordinated debt transactions. Our team provides advice and counsel with respect to the provisions applicable to the client’s investments in financial institutions and their holding companies and the principal provisions affecting the operations of these entities going forward.
Our clients in the financial services industry team with us to support their own customers and clients in the strategy and execution of various financial and corporate transactions, investments, workouts, and insolvencies.
M&A Convenience Stores
Legal counsel can be more effective and economical in guiding a client through a merger or acquisition when they bring industry-specific knowledge and experience to the table.
Many of the largest operators listed in the 2023 Convenience Store News Top 100 trust us for practical, informed legal advice in a wide range of practice areas, including both stock and asset purchases and sales of all sizes. To date, our attorneys have represented mid-stream and down-stream convenience store and fuel supply clients in transactions involving more than 1,000 convenience store properties.
Our lawyers have deep understanding of convenience store and fuel supply business operations, from both the seller side and the buyer side. They understand how product gets from the terminal to the bulk plant to the pump, and the roles and relationships between suppliers, haulers, jobbers, sub-jobbers, dealers, operators, and the myriad other players who may be involved in a merger or acquisition in the convenience store/fuel supply sector.
For our clients, Dinsmore’s in-depth understanding of the convenience store/fuel supply industry translates into a host of benefits. First, when conducting due diligence, we are familiar with industry-specific documentation such as fuel supply agreements, dealer contracts, incentive documentation, jobber and sub-jobber agreements, consignment contracts, fuel-hauling agreements, and the like. This means that we know in advance what we need to identify, which improves efficiency and enhances the effectiveness of our review.
Our lawyers are also familiar with the complications and points of contention that most often arise in convenience store/fuel supply mergers and acquisitions, which better positions them to identify areas of legal exposure and suggest mutually acceptable methods of risk allocation in a timely manner. Further, having been involved in a wide range of transaction types over the years, Dinsmore lawyers are particularly adept at helping the parties fashion creative, balanced, and practical deal structures.
M&A Health Care
Health care clients of all provider types and sizes look to us to handle health care corporate and transactional matters at the national, regional, and local levels. From negotiating initial terms to through due diligence and definitive agreement drafting to executing the terms and ensuring each party meets its responsibilities, clients seek our guidance through contractual and transactional matters each and every day.
Our team recognizes every contract and transaction is unique, and there is no universal approach. That’s why we work closely with each client to identify their specific goals and expectations, enabling the client’s circumstances to establish the framework for the process. Our attorneys have the experience and technical knowledge to guide our clients through even the most difficult mergers and acquisitions and health care transactions.