Employing the depth of knowledge and experience from across the Firm’s practice areas, our attorneys educate and advise clients about their strategic options and legal considerations.
These services include assisting clients to identify business objectives, addressing legal issues and tax implications, conducting thorough due diligence research, evaluating and resolving regulatory obstacles, addressing employment considerations, acquiring financing, and recommending tactics to negotiate, sign and close the deal.
Phillips Murrah’s Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group has expertise in the following areas:
- Strategic and tactical business planning
- General contract drafting and negotiation
- Purchase, financing, lease, and sale of business entities
- Partnerships and joint ventures
- Balancing portfolios through strategic sales or acquisitions
- Divesting non-essential lines of business
- Joint ventures
- Advising boards of directors of required governance and fiduciary responsibilities related to transactions
- Business and entity creation, structuring, reorganizations, divisions, and dissolutions
- Supply and distribution agreements
- Real estate acquisition and development
- Management and finance
- TIF negotiation
- Investor and investment banking relations
- Licensing and franchising
- Credit facilities and lending transactions
- Counseling on succession or estate tax problems
