Mergers & Acquisitions
KORO’s Mergers & Acquisitions practice works on a wide range of mergers and acquisitions. We counsel sellers and buyers, investors and owners, management and sources of financing, including private equity and venture capital sponsors, family offices and independent sponsors, to develop innovative strategies and structural solutions that protect our clients’ interests and help them achieve their transaction objectives. We help secure transaction financing, working with investment and commercial banks and other institutional lenders, and provide other value-added legal services to large, national and multinational businesses, regional and local middle market companies and growing entrepreneurs and start-ups across numerous industries. Our transactions have ranged in value from a few million dollars to more than $640 million.
Our attorneys typically handle a broad array of issues arising from a merger, acquisition, or divestiture, including environmental, employee benefits, tax, intellectual property, antitrust and regulatory matters. Where the situation calls for it, we also team up with subject matter experts from other firms in a seamless manner. Our M&A experience includes the following transaction types: private mergers and acquisitions, cross-border and international transactions, divestitures, recapitalizations, spin-offs and carve-outs, joint ventures, leveraged buyouts, and acquisitions of distressed assets.
Since December 31, 2014, KORO acted as counsel on more than 50 M&A transactions representing over $1.4 billion in total transaction value.
Recent notable M&A transactions include:
Counsel to Private Equity Firm to organize and capitalize portfolio acquisition entity, followed by simultaneous acquisition of three operating entities providing custom injection molded products to a variety of industries and markets, and numerous national and international “add-on” acquisitions thereafter
Counsel to Purchaser in numerous acquisitions of Sprint preferred retail stores throughout the United States, and several related transactions in the wireless industry, including the organization and capitalization of a holding company and simultaneous contribution of over 80 Sprint stores to such entity
Counsel to Minority Member in sale of equity of national fabric company to private equity firm
Counsel to Seller in sale of national automotive manufacturing company to private equity firm
Co-counsel to Sellers in sale of national security, alarm, medical monitoring and other businesses to private equity firm
Counsel to Private Equity Firm to organize and capitalize holding company and acquisition entity, followed by simultaneous financing and acquisition of national processor of organic and conventional meal, soybeans and other grains for feed mills and food refiners
Counsel to Purchaser in acquisition of a majority of the equity of international franchise system, with 234 locations in the United States and Canada
Counsel to Private Equity Firm to organize and capitalize holding company and portfolio acquisition entity, followed by simultaneous senior and mezzanine financing and acquisition of national wholesale flooring distributor and its subsidiaries
Counsel to Private Equity Firm to organize and capitalize portfolio acquisition entity, followed by simultaneous acquisition of two operating entities in the industrial cleaning, excavation and field services industries
Counsel to Private Equity Firm to organize and capitalize acquisition entity, followed by simultaneous acquisition of operating entity providing pre-cast and pre-stressed concrete and related products
Counsel to Shareholder and Executive in sale of international manufacturing company to private equity firm
Counsel to Purchaser in acquisition of international franchise systems, with 434 locations in 8 countries
Counsel to Minority Shareholder Group in sale of software company to Japanese company
Counsel to Purchaser in acquisition of manufacturing company in Illinois
Counsel to Purchaser in acquisition of manufacturing company from bankruptcy. Listed as one of the biggest deals in Crain's Detroit Business, "Michigan Deal List: Mergers & Acquisitions"
Counsel to Shareholder and Executive in sale of commercial furniture business to private equity firm
Counsel to Shareholder in complex multi-faceted transaction which resulted in the buy-out of other 50% owner and re-financed the primary and subordinated debt of meat packing company located in Detroit
Counsel to Seller in sale of manufacturing company for the automotive industry to wholly-owned subsidiary of Italian company
Counsel to Purchaser in acquisition of various franchise systems in the drycleaning industry
Counsel to Purchaser in acquisition of manufacturing facility in Illinois
Counsel to Seller in sale of data technology company to an international publicly traded company
Counsel to Seller in sale of a digital media agency
Counsel to Seller in sale of an international mail logistics company
Counsel to Seller in sale of a digital display advertising agency
