Transactional

• Antitrust & Trade Regulation
  

  Our antitrust lawyers assist clients with mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and other significant transactions, and routinely counsel them on antitrust aspects of distribution arrangements, intellectual property licensing, trade association activities, and pricing policies. We advise on structuring transactions to abate antitrust concerns as well as negotiating with antitrust authorities and responding to governmental inquiries. Our work ranges from pre-merger reviews to comprehensive and nuanced economic analysis of proposed transactions, to advising financing sources on antitrust risks.

• Bankruptcy & Restructuring
  We frequently represent and advise all of the various constituents in complex domestic and crossborder restructuring matters, including formal bankruptcy and other court proceedings and out-of-court transactions.
• Capital Markets & Lending
  

  We have acted as counsel to the financing sources in many major acquisitions featuring significant debt financings, including eight of the ten largest buyouts completed in U.S. history. Cahill is widely recognized for its participation in capital markets transactions, particularly with respect to mergers and acquisitions, leveraged (i.e., below investment grade) loans, high yield debt and other debt securities, debt exchange offers, IPOs and other equity related financings.

• Communications
  

  Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP advises communications companies in every stage of their development and in all aspects of their businesses. Our lawyers are well versed in the technical, regulatory and operational concerns of both established and emerging companies offering communications services – including voice, data, and video -- and equipment.

• Corporate Governance & Advisory
  Cahill represents public and private companies and their directors and officers in all types of corporate transactions, governance, regulatory compliance and planning. We serve as outside corporate counsel advising public companies in connection with the full range of laws, rules and regulations administered by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the New York Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ Stock Market and other regulatory and self-regulatory bodies, as well as disclosure and crisis management challenges.
• Environmental
  

  Environmental matters in corporate transactions can be risky and complex. Our clients rely on our seasoned environmental lawyers to successfully navigate these issues in debt financings and restructurings, securities offerings and M&A deals.

• Executive Compensation
  

  We represent companies, executives and boards of directors in connection with complex executive compensation and employee benefit issues and arrangements, including tax, securities law and corporate governance matters. Our lawyers focus on negotiating and structuring employment agreements, severance arrangements, long-term incentive plans, equity-based compensation plans, deferred compensation plans and other compensatory arrangements.

• Insurance
  Cahill has represented insurers, reinsurers, brokers, investors and financing sources in transactions ranging from formation of entities and capital raisings, to acquisitions, dispositions and redomestications, to reinsurance to agency transactions.
• Intellectual Property
  We provide practical assessments of risk and reward with respect to patent and other intangible assets that are often components in mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, joint ventures, product acquisitions, licensing, co-development and co-promotion agreements.
• Mergers & Acquisitions
  Cahill represents buyers, sellers, Boards of Directors, Committees, (including special, audit, compensation, governance and others) as well as directors and officers in connection with mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, spin-offs and other significant strategic transactions. Our lawyers also create deal structures for joint ventures, consult in the development of distribution, marketing and pricing arrangements.
• Real Estate
  Our real estate practice is an essential part of the firm's overall transactional practice. Our lawyers work closely with some of the largest investment and commercial banking firms in financing transactions involving real estate such as leveraged loans, high yield debt and other debt securities, acquisition financings, sale-leaseback financings and related dispositions and acquisitions of real property in the United States and elsewhere.
• Tax
  Our tax lawyers develop innovative business-oriented tax solutions for domestic and cross-border transactions of nearly every kind and description. Reflecting the practice of the firm as a whole, we regularly advise some of the world’s largest companies.
• Trusts & Estates
  Our trusts and estates department provides a full range of services to individual clients, including sophisticated tax and estate planning; administration of estates and trusts; drafting wills, trusts, business and marital agreements; and formation and administration of charitable entities.