Mergers & Acquisitions | McCarter & English, LLP

Our mergers and acquisitions lawyers guide both sellers and buyers through every step of a deal, from setting the strategy through to implementation.

Our work includes handling:

Acquisitions from bankrupt entities, including Section 363 sales
Auction processes
Joint ventures, strategic alliances, and partnerships
Management and other leveraged buyouts
Mergers, including tax deferred transactions (direct and triangular), exchanges and other business combinations and recapitalization and reorganization transactions
Multinational acquisitions and divestitures
Related governance, including Board of Directors and Stockholders actions
Stock and asset acquisitions and dispositions of publicly- and privately-held companies

We have handled business combinations ranging from small, privately negotiated transactions to mergers, tender offers and other transactions involving significant public companies. In the course of handling these transactions, our attorneys manage all aspects of federal and state securities law and other laws that may affect M&A activities, including Hart-Scott-Rodino compliance. Our services have prominent national and international dimensions, including serving as counsel to numerous U.S. affiliates of foreign companies.

Represented Transfix, a digital freight management and logistics company, in the sale of its freight brokerage business to strategic buyer NFI Industries. Transfix will now operate as a technology developer and supplier offering its proprietary transportation management system and other logistics software.

Represented Eurofins Discovery on its acquisition of DiscoveryBioMed.

Advised Spear Research, a New Hampshire technology company focused on electronic warfare, signals intelligence, and autonomous networked sensor systems, on its sale to Pacific Defense, a California military-use electromagnetic spectrum technology provider to the Department of Defense and intelligence community. The McCarter practices advising Spear on the sale included Corporate, Government Contracts, Export Controls & Global Trade, Labor & Employment, Tax, and Insurance Coverage.

Represented an industrial electrical contractor with instrumentation and telecommunications capabilities in connection with the merger of an affiliated commercial electrical contractor.

Represented Metuchen Savings Bank in its merger with Manalapan Bank.

Represented a provider of bulk liquid terminal services in its acquisition of a New Jersey-based owner/operator of a co-generation facility.

Represented an international industrial group in connection with its $110 million stock acquisition of a manufacturer of fiber optic and cable assemblies for the datacom and telecommunications industries.

Represented a multi-national electrical manufacturer in connection with a $17 million acquisition of the assets of an Ohio-based manufacturer of digital audio distribution systems.

Represented a refractory lining and chimney construction-related business in its acquisition of a company specializing in masonry and steel structures, as well as in its acquisition of a company engaged in the construction of large industrial chimneys and tall specialized structures.

Represented a leading pharmaceutical company in the sale of its research facility to a strategic buyer.

Represented the Greater Plainfield, New Jersey chapter of Habitat for Humanity in the acquisition of the Middlesex County, New Jersey chapter of Habitat for Humanity.

Represented a specialty chemical company in connection with the purchase of the assets of a company dedicated to developing and providing superior animal health solutions.

Represented a major insurance company in connection with a closing of the sale of its insurance group to a California-based insurance company and simultaneously merged their respective affiliated holding companies, a deal valued in excess of $250 million.

Represented a Florida-based broker dealer with $2 billion in assets under management in a sale of its assets to another broker dealer in a stock transaction.

Represented a UK listed life sciences company in connection with a $17 million acquisition of the stock of a pharmaceutical products services company.

Advised this New Jersey–based bank in various regulatory matters and, in particular, the acquisition of Gold Coast Bank and the acquisition of the NJ and Pennsylvania branch operations of Berkshire Bank.

Represented an international industrial engineering and manufacturing firm in a multi-million dollar transaction in connection with the acquisition of a leading independent service provider for gas turbines in the US.

Represented a publicly traded financial services company in connection with a $425 million stock acquisition of an information and financial advisory services company.

Represented a medical device manufacturer in connection with a $12 million acquisition of the assets of a medical device distribution company.

Represented a New York-based environmental sustainability services company in a multi-million dollar cash and stock transaction in connection with its sale to a publicly traded company in the energy management and sustainability services sector.

Represented an educational resource catalog company in connection with its sale to a national distributor of a wide range of products to schools, hospitals, camps, and recreation facilities.

Represented an esports collegiate production company in connection with its sale to a private equity backed esports entertainment platform.

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