Overview
Locke Lord attorneys represent U.S. and foreign companies in a wide variety of international corporate transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, investments, joint ventures and the establishment of subsidiaries and branch operations. Our attorneys have extensive experience in negotiating, structuring and implementing these transactions, as well as advising on post-transaction operational issues.
Our attorneys also understand the roles of politics and culture in successful cross-border transactions. We combine our strengths in business and law with a clear focus on relevant cultural and political implications to represent companies around the globe in successfully completing transactions.
We apply multi-disciplinary skills when structuring, negotiating, documenting and closing complex commercial deals. Our attorneys are skilled in handling the entire range of legal issues that may be encountered in cross-border transactions, including capital repatriation, antitrust and competition law issues, immigration and employment matters, tax issues, and technology licensing and other intellectual property matters.
Below is a sampling of representative corporate and commercial transactions handled by Locke Lord attorneys:
- Representation of a major U.S. insurance company in its proposed acquisition of a competitor with extensive European, Australian and New Zealand operations.
- Advising a NYSE-listed manufacturer of marine vessels in a Philippines joint venture to manufacture such vessels.
- Handling the divestiture of European, Mexican and South American assets of a major U.S. oilfield services company to a management-led buyout group.
- Advising a major U.S. lodging chain on numerous aspects of Mexican law affecting its proposed establishment of operations in Mexico, including corporate, real estate, tax and labor laws.
- Represented a national car rental company in the establishment of a European joint venture.