Testimonials

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 Carve-outs, spin-offs, and split-offs 

 Reshaping your business As the pace of change and innovation quickens, companies are challenged to  review the strategic imperatives of their businesses. We work with companies as they consider sales or distributions of portions of their  operations through carve-outs, spin-offs, split-offs or other transactions to realize  value and enable each business unit to pursue its operations independently.

Our team understands the unique business, regulatory, and legal challenges that  arise in structuring these types of transactions. 

Our M&A lawyers work with our  Industry Sector Groups to address complex considerations, such as handling  shared assets and contracts, separation of facilities, employee transitions and  other items that make these deals some of the most challenging to accomplish. 

 Cross-border 

 Combining global experience and local knowledge.

 Our M&A lawyers draw upon our subject matter capabilities throughout our nearly  50 offices around the world to support cross-border M&A transactions, including  lawyers focussed on acquisition financing, antitrust, competition, tax, intellectual  property, employment and employee benefits, real estate, environmental, national  security and foreign investment regulation. Ranked among the world’s top legal advisors for cross-border M&A, Franklin  Morgan partners with our clients to help them achieve their business objectives. 

 Hostile takeovers and takeover defense !

Protecting your interests Our global team of lawyers offers the full range of hostile takeover, takeover defense,  and takeover planning advice, whether a company is assessing its vulnerability to an unsolicited takeover, defending against a hostile takeover or launching an  unsolicited proposal. 

At Franklin Morgan, we advise clients acting as hostile bidders, “white knight” suitors, or target companies, during all stages of a hostile takeover.

 Our work ranges from preparing or responding to an initial private offer or “bear hug” letter, to the adoption of a "poison pill" and implementation of other takeover defenses, to the launch or defense of tender offers and proxy contests. In each of the world's major financial markets, we guide clients through the complexities that arise from initiating or defending against a hostile takeover,  including navigating the UK’s Takeover Code, the use of stichtings in the Netherlands,  takeover regulations throughout other European and APME jurisdictions, and the  tender offer, disclosure, and proxy rules adopted by the SEC in the United States. 

Our M&A lawyers draw upon resources from our litigation, antitrust, and other  practice groups to provide businesses with an integrated and multidisciplinary  approach to navigating these complex transaction