Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategic Transactions & Alliances

Foster Swift has extensive experience and involvement in mergers and acquisitions, and other forms of business combinations, acquisitions and divestitures. In these transactions, the firm draws upon its pool of corporate lawyers in a variety of areas, such as regulated industries (insurance, banking, healthcare and telecommunications), corporate reorganizations, corporate tax and corporate benefits.

We represent acquirers, targets, 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, banking, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications, technology, and defense sectors.

Representative Experience

• Manufacturing Plant Acqusition
• 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

Publications & Alerts

• Software Licenses Do Not Automatically Transfer in a Merger or Acquisition, Foster Swift Business & Corporate Law Update, Spring 2010