EY helps convert strategic vision into reality and support deals to run smoothly.
M&A transactions must be negotiated well and structured carefully to reduce legal risks, manage tax issues and ensure timely execution.
Each plan has its own potential legal risks and deal-breakers, including:
- Funding incapacity of the purchaser
- Litigation and regulatory risks
- Change-of-control issues such as termination rights under critical contracts, loss of public grants or subsidies, and loss of major suppliers or customers
- Misrepresentations, particularly with accounting and tax
- Key employee retention
Businesses need lawyers who not only have experience handling private M&A transactions in different industries and markets, but also have a team mind-set and can perform well in complex situations.
How we can help
Whether you are a seller, a purchaser, a JV partner or management, our lawyers can guide you through M&A transactions by working alongside professionals from tax, accounting, transaction advisory, finance advisory and people services.
The outcome
EY lawyers offer detailed advice to address your M&A needs, including:
- Critically assessing any planned investment or divestiture
- Assisting with carve-outs to make your divestiture ready for sale
- Assisting with structuring, negotiating and executing private M&A transactions in a timely manner
- Aiding reorganizations to integrate the acquisition into your business
EY’s lawyers are accustomed to working on both local and international transactions involving many countries — a capability that clients often view as another reason to use our services.