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Acquisitions of Industry Leaders

This generation of Bricker transaction lawyers has served as lead counsel on several major acquisition transactions involving purchase prices of over $100 million. These high-dollar acquisitions frequently involve publicly held companies on one or both sides and often require focused attention to issues such as:

• Compliance by the acquired company with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements to assure that the acquisition will not impair the ability to give required SOX certifications.

• Hart-Scott-Rodino approvals necessitated where there is a potential that the size of the transactions will result in an anti-competitive effect.

• Protection of the value of stock in the acquiror received by a selling party through negotiation of piggyback registration rights and tagalong rights.

• Negotiation of fair and workable control sharing arrangements in a merger of equals.

Additional Resources
Introduction: The Bricker Difference
Acquisition Experience by Dollar Size and Case Studies
Acquisition Experience by Industry and Case Studies