Advice and Counseling regarding Transactions

Anderson PLC represents clients considering and undertaking mergers, acquisitions, carve-outs, joint ventures, divestitures, spin-offs, asset purchases, asset sales, financing, and other strategic transactions.

The firm brings the highest level of professionalism, attention to detail, and commercial acuity to each transaction.  The firm focuses on achieving the client’s objectives cost-effectively through a collaborative process with the client’s employees and other advisers.

Anderson PLC has particularly significant expertise and experience in the purchase and sale of investment advisers, broker-dealers, commodity pool operators, commodity trading advisors, and their affiliated businesses, and in transactions to finance these entities.

Bentley Anderson, the principal of Anderson PLC, has extensive experience addressing the complex, industry-specific regulations to which these businesses and transactions are subject, and working with the regulators who enforce those regulations.  A list of Mr. Anderson’s representative transactions is available here.

Services

In advising clients on strategic and financing transactions, Anderson PLC:

  • Advises regarding deal structures (merger, stock purchase, asset sale)
  • Evaluates legal and regulatory requirements and risks associated with financing opportunities
  • Designs, develops, and manages target or acquirer due diligence, including with respect to the strengths and weaknesses of a target business’s internal controls and compliance with applicable regulatory requirements
  • Drafts and negotiates confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements
  • Drafts and negotiates term sheets and letters of intent
  • Drafts and negotiates definitive transaction documentation, including stock purchase agreements, asset purchase agreements, asset sale agreements, joint venture agreements, minority investment agreements, and related schedules and exhibits
  • Counsels on strategic alliances, joint ventures, and minority investments, and negotiates and drafts transaction documentation
  • Advises on business and asset valuation issues
  • Drafts, negotiates, and advises on applicable regulatory, documentations, and approval requirements
  • Reviews, negotiates, and drafts credit, revolving credit, guaranty, and other financing agreements
  • Advises on post-signing and post-closing agreement interpretation issues
  • Designs and develops post-closing management, operational, and risk management integration plans for acquired companies, divisions, and units
  • Coordinates the use of local counsel (including law firms / lawyers outside of the United States)