Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategic Transactions & Alliances

Foster Swift has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, and other business combinations, reorganizations and divestitures. In these transactions, our team draws upon the firm’s talented 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 approach each transaction with a comprehensive understanding of our client’s business, objectives, and definition of success. While risk is inherent in every deal, we take the time necessary to identify the risks that may impact value, and take steps to minimize or eliminate them. Our client-centric focus, practical solutions, and ability to nimbly adjust to fast-moving developments enable clients to consummate transactions in a manner consistent with their goals. In short, our right-sized deal teams, consisting of lawyers with skills to match the challenges at hand, deliver value each step of the way.

While we help clients close transactions of all sizes, we are particularly skilled at handling middle market transactions ranging from $5-$50 million—and have the track record to prove it. 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 Processing
Banking
Defense Sectors
Healthcare
Insurance
Manufacturing
Technology
Telecommunications

Representative Experience

Michigan family-owned business in connection with a multi-state business acquisition initiative
Michigan bank holding company in connection with $110 million acquisition of Michigan-based bank holding company
Michigan bank holding company in connection with $92 million acquisition of Michigan-based bank holding company.
Client in connection with two private offerings of equity securities under Regulation D totaling $13 million
Michigan bank holding company in connection with $840 million sale of its business to an out-of-state, publicly-held corporation
Michigan manufacturer in connection with $44 million sale of its business to an out-of-state, publicly-held corporation
Publicly-held corporation in connection with its "going private" transaction and issuance of $10 million of trust preferred securities
Michigan food processor in connection with $20 million sale of its business to a private equity fund
Family members in connection with the acquisition of an approximately $20 million agricultural manufacturing business from the prior generation
Manufacturing client in connection with the purchase of an approximately $10 million business