Corporate and Securities

Womble Carlyle has extensive experience in advising clients on all phases of buying and selling businesses, including mergers, purchases and sales of capital stock and assets, recapitalizations and other corporate restructurings. We have handled both taxable and tax-deferred transactions ranging in size from several hundred thousand dollars to several hundred million dollars. Our attorneys also provide counseling and assistance with required governmental filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act (HSR).

Our Firm typically uses a team approach in handling larger complex transactions. This approach brings together, under the direction of a partner with substantial transactional experience, practitioners in corporate law, tax, securities, environmental, employee benefits, labor, real property and finance and other relevant practice areas in a collaborative effort to ensure that the highest quality service is provided to the client.

The corporate and tax attorneys work together closely at the outset of each engagement to advise clients on structuring the transaction to achieve the most favorable tax results and other goals of the client. If necessary, our securities practitioners advise the client with respect to SEC disclosure matters and other relevant securities issues, including, for example, the negotiation of registration rights. Our environmental attorneys coordinate any environmental investigation and/or remediation of the land and buildings, assist the client in understanding the exposure to liability that may be identified in reports received from the environmental consultants and participate in drafting and negotiating the provisions in the acquisition agreements dealing with environmental liability. Our real property and finance attorneys oversee all matters related to title of any real property involved in the transaction (including drafting and negotiating property leases, if appropriate) and assist the client in obtaining and negotiating financing for the transaction.

Other team members assist in the due diligence investigation and document preparation and focus on issues and concerns in their particular practice area. Through this team effort, which is carefully coordinated to promote efficiency and responsiveness, we are able to assist our clients in all aspects of the transaction, regardless of complexity, in a prompt and cost-effective manner.