Cahill’s M&A and Corporate Advisory practice focuses on advising companies, founders, boards and their special committees and private equity firms and their portfolio companies across a variety of industries including energy and infrastructure assets.
Cahill’s M&A and transactional advice spans mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, spin-offs and other significant strategic transactions. Cahill lawyers have significant experience across different industries and asset classes, deal types and deal sizes, ranging from multi-billion dollar transactions to small add-on acquisitions and venture investments. As a result of our breadth of experience, our partners are uniquely positioned to guide clients from the early stages of growth through equity and debt financing rounds, add-on or secondary acquisitions, dispositions or other liquidity transactions, IPOs, and life as a public company. We pride ourselves on providing the same excellent service to each client, regardless of their stage or size.
Cahill’s Corporate Advisory advice encompasses all aspects of corporate governance, regulatory compliance (including SEC, NYSE and NASDAQ), ESG matters and related disclosures, board and executive compensation (including Section 16 matters), tax structuring, cyber and information security, insurance, corporate investigations and crisis management and other legal issues in all aspects of our clients’ businesses. We also advise clients on debt and equity financings, growth equity and other minority investments, as well as governance, disclosure and compliance matters related to these transactions.
Representations range from large public companies, including 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc., Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., ICON plc, S&P Global and Danaher to many private companies, project sponsors and developers of all sizes, including portfolio companies for our private equity clients.
The practice consists of a diverse group of partners with a wide range of expertise, experience and accomplishments and is led by Helene R. Banks, whose comprehensive knowledge, efficient execution and commercial and collaborative approach has earned her individual accolades including Crain’s New York “Notable Women in Law” and “Notable Leaders in Sustainability,” Women We Admire’s “Top Women Leaders of New York” and Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Dealmakers in America.” Helene is a sought after speaker and writer on M&A, corporate governance, ESG and transactional matters, appearing in leading publications and industry panels.
Our M&A practice covers the full spectrum of transactions – acquisitions and sales of whole companies, portfolio companies, divisions, lines of business and brands, minority or majority investments and joint ventures, companies in the early stages of a roll up and companies engaged in restructurings in and out of bankruptcy. We assist our clients through NDAs, pitch books, terms sheets, letters of intent, purchase and sale agreements, asset sale agreements, employment agreements, transition services agreements, investor agreements and the many other agreements needed to make the journey from the early stages of discussion to a successful closing.
We provide prompt, experienced counsel along the way that encompasses our pragmatic approach to finding solutions to get to a closing. Our deal experience and legal skills translate to success across all industries, including biotechnology, food and beverage, energy, infrastructure, financial services, health care, insurance, manufacturing, media, pharmaceutical, consumer products and technology.
Throughout the transaction, Cahill is able to provide clients with comprehensive advice and seamless execution, drawing upon the expertise of our lawyers from different practice groups, including anti-bribery and anti-corruption, antitrust, bankruptcy, CFIUS, cyber and information security, real estate, environmental, executive compensation and employee benefits, intellectual property, labor, litigation, real estate and tax.
Cahill is recognized as a leading middle-market (sub $500M) M&A practice by The Legal 500 United States and IFLR1000. Cahill’s deals have also been recognized with awards by The M&A Advisor and The Deal.
Cahill advises on all aspects of corporate governance, regulatory compliance and planning, board and executive compensation, corporate investigations and crisis management and other legal issues in all aspects of our clients’ businesses. In the increasingly important area of ESG, we provide companies advice on navigating sensitive issues and disclosure.
Our experience enables us to provide efficient counseling and guidance on the full spectrum of issues facing companies, at all stages of growth. When circumstances warrant, we draw upon the capabilities of lawyers across the firm to provide our clients with customized solutions to unique problems.
Cahill is recognized as a leading corporate governance practice by The Legal 500 United States.
Cahill advises middle market private equity sponsors, their investment funds and portfolio companies throughout the lifecycle of an investment by providing market-informed transactional and finance counsel from the platform acquisition through the exit. During the investment period, we also assist the portfolio companies with legal issues that may arise and prepare them for an ultimate sale. Our partners’ hands-on approach to advising our private equity clients ensures that our advice on every matter is informed by a thorough understanding of each client’s priorities, ultimate goals and unique needs.
Working seamlessly with our market-leading Capital Markets and Banking & Finance practices, Cahill’s M&A team represents lenders and borrowers in acquisition and corporate financings, especially M&A-related leveraged loans, including at all stages of the acquisition financing process, addressing the complexities and other issues that arise in this type of financing. Our clients include, for example, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc., Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., ICON plc as well as several large financial institutions. A consistent leader in representing lead arrangers in M&A loan transactions, for the full year 2023 Cahill not only ranked #2 by deal count as legal adviser to lead arrangers in M&A loan transactions, but the firm also secured the #2 spot by volume, advising in 23 deals that generated more than $48 billion in aggregate gross proceeds, according to Refinitiv.
Our market dominance ensures our partners are at the forefront of emerging trends and allows our lawyers the dexterity to match the right deal technology and deal terms with each corporate client’s particular transaction needs, regardless of deal size.
Cahill serves as a trusted guide, advising founders, companies, boards and investors who are active in establishing, growing and investing in emerging companies. We advise on a range of issues by utilizing legal talent from across the firm on matters including corporate governance, compliance, employment matters, finance, insurance, intellectual property, litigation, M&A and tax. We provide clients an efficient, single point of contact for legal counsel as they launch, grow and manage their new ventures. Cahill also advises investors in these ventures, ensuring that they receive terms that maximize and protect their investment and have a clear pathway to a profitable exit.
We advise boards of directors and their special committees, as well as individual directors and officers, in connection with significant corporate governance matters and crisis management challenges and in corporate investigations. We are often called upon to assist clients with particularly sensitive matters involving accounting, conflicts of interest, employee, director and management responsibilities and business practices.
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