Foster Swift has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, and other business combinations, reorganizations and divestitures. In these transactions, the firm draws upon its pool of corporate, tax, pension, employment and environmental lawyers in a variety of areas, such as regulated industries (insurance, banking, healthcare and telecommunications), agriculture and food processing to effectively negotiate and close deals for our clients.
We represent buyers, sellers, financial advisors, shareholder groups, equity investors, and subordinated and senior lenders in both domestic and cross-border transactions. We also provide advice to clients on fiduciary duties of directors in connection with mergers, spin-offs and other extraordinary transactions, composition and operation of boards of directors and their committees, executive and director compensation, and corporate governance matters.
Foster Swift attorneys are significantly involved in transactions across a wide range of industries, including:
- agriculture and food process,
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
Manufacturing Plant Acquisition
Consolidated/Merged Insurance Agencies
Insurance Company Purchase of Additional Insurance Companies
Multi-Million Dollar Out-of-State Business Acquisition
Multi-Parcel Acquisition
Assisted in Sale of Transportation Company
Assisted Client in Complicated Merger Transactions
Hospital Purchase of a Surgical Entity
Facilitated $50 million acquisition and merger of two companies
Successful Representation of Merger and Acquisition of Subsidiary
Represented Food Processor in Connection with $20 Million Sale to a Private Equity Fund
Represented Bank Holding Company in $92 Million Acquisition
Private Offerings of Equity Securities Under Regulation D
Counsel for Michigan Manufacturer on Sale of Its Business to Publicly-held Corporation
Representation of Buyer in Acquisitions and Liquor Sales Regulation
Consolidated and Merged Investment Entities
Maneuvered Through Near-Acquisition of International Company
Merged Companies Operating in Costa Rica, Canada and the United States
Negotiation of Acquisition of Retail Franchise Operation
Representation of Shareholders in Sale of Business to Key Employee
Corporate Counsel for Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Governance
