Mergers and Acquisitions

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Mergers and Acquisitions

Our mergers and acquisitions lawyers can help advise you on any M&A deal, no matter how big or complex, so your business can achieve all its strategic goals.

When you’re working on complex, strategic M&A transactions, you need a legal team that has the experience, sector knowledge and depth to guide you towards your objectives and successfully execute your transaction.

Our global M&A team is able to do just that. With 700 M&A lawyers located in over 70 offices around the world, we act on hundreds of deals each year worth tens of billions of dollars and  chances are, we’ve worked on a transaction like yours before.

Our focus is always on helping you add strategic value to your business.  We assemble teams tailored to you and your deal, drawing on our bench of lawyers with deep sector knowledge around the world to plan for, and address, every possible scenario on your transaction. In today’s environment, and on cross-border deals in particular, you can expect to deal with a wide range of issues, and thoughtful consideration will need to be given to areas like structure, funding, people, real property, tax, and intellectual property, as well as to increasingly regulated areas like foreign direct investment, trade, competition and data.

We are well-positioned to help you navigate these issues and others that may arise. We can also help you achieve your objectives when strategic value is best realized through alternative transaction structures and arrangements, such as joint ventures. When it comes to deal execution, we are innovative, using cutting-edge project management and technology software to help you quickly process information and efficiently manage complex deals.

Our belief is that our global platform, deep sector knowledge, execution capability and commercial approach enable us to provide the highest quality service to you. We’ll always align with your strategic objectives and focus on helping you maximize value on every deal.

In Ireland, Eversheds Sutherland ranked 5th in the 2021 Mergermarket league tables by deal count. Our recent experience includes advising:

  • on an acquisition of 15 convenience stores in Ireland by a petrol station chain, to include advising on corporate and merger control related elements of the transaction
  • a UK-based leading provider of nurseries in its acquisition of an Irish early years education provider
  • the shareholders of a group, who are behind multiple household names in the hardware and home improvements sector, on its sale to a UK building materials supplier
  • a private equity firm on its acquisition of a global aviation group 
  • on a cross-border merger of a multinational pharmaceutical company’s European operations, including its principal European subsidiary, into its Irish limited company 
 
“The Eversheds Sutherland team did an amazing job keeping all stakeholders engaged and focused which ultimately allowed us to get the deal over the line.”

General Counsel, Helly Hansen

“Eversheds Sutherland’s project management of its global network and use of supporting legal technology, including its DealMaster platform, simplified the process for us, enabling a particularly quick timetable.”

Legal Counsel – M&A, Rolls-Royce

“The Eversheds Sutherland team did an amazing job keeping all stakeholders engaged and focused which ultimately allowed us to get the deal over the line.”

General Counsel, Helly Hansen

“Eversheds Sutherland’s project management of its global network and use of supporting legal technology, including its DealMaster platform, simplified the process for us, enabling a particularly quick timetable.”

Legal Counsel – M&A, Rolls-Royce

Areas In Corporate and M&A

Key contacts

endacullivan@eversheds-sutherland.ie

Enda Cullivan

Partner

Dublin, Ireland

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