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Corporate and M&A
Multi-jurisdictional expertise to position your organisation for success in today's global business environment.
Find an expertOur global corporate practice is central to our business.
Our team invest time in understanding your objectives to provide you with practical, commercial solutions in relation to transactions and commercial, governance and regulatory matters.
With our network of corporate partners based across all the major commercial centres, we advise on M&A, private equity, joint ventures, equity capital markets, reorganisations, governance and regulatory issues. We have the range of experience to advise your business on its reputational and legal risks, throughout its lifecycle.
Understanding the market
Our team advise on some of the most complex and high profile transactions in the market. We act for buyers, sellers, targets and financial advisers, giving us the experience to ensure each of our clients receive the highest level of advice.
Multi-jurisdictional advice
Our advice spans borders. We understand the markets in which you do business and help you navigate across jurisdictions in relation to transactions and other governance and regulatory issues. Our strong network enables us to mobilise teams across our offices to provide a seamless service for cross-border matters.
Integrated solutions
Our multi-disciplinary practice is fully integrated with our practice groups including projects, tax, competition, real estate, finance, disputes, IT, employment and pensions. This enables us to execute end-to-end high quality transaction management.
Industry insights
We prioritise understanding your business and the industry sectors in which you operate. Our market-leading position across these key sectors means you benefit from our deep industry insights and dedicated industry teams.
Keeping ahead of regulatory change
We understand the pressures faced by your business in an increasingly regulated environment, and use our experience to provide high quality, commercially relevant advice. We help you to prioritise the big issues and navigate requirements to be confident in your decision making.
Innovative solutions
We are committed to providing innovative and strategic advice. Our strong collaboration across legal, risk consulting and technical advisory enables us to deliver commercial outcomes to support your objectives.
How we can help
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Equity Capital Markets
Our global equity capital markets (ECM) practice has extensive experience in advising on ECM transactions of all sizes, across a diverse range of sectors and markets.
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Our leading international equity capital markets team has extensive experience of advising issuers, investment banks and sponsors on the full suite of equity capital markets transactions. This includes advising on IPOs, private placements, SPACs, direct listings, equity-linked transactions, exchange and tender offers, rights offerings, acquisition financings, secondary and follow-on offerings, global depositary receipt offerings, debt for equity swaps and spin-offs.
We have a truly balanced practice that regularly acts for clients on high-profile work ranging from some of the largest, most challenging and ground-breaking ECM transactions in the market to smaller deals, including those which require innovative structures.
Embedded within our global ECM team is a fully integrated US securities practice, which is widely recognised for the depth of its experience, technical expertise and market awareness.
Combining our knowledge of key legal and regulatory developments across the globe together with our deep experience and specialist knowledge means we are able to offer insightful, tailored advice to our clients and exceptional deal execution capability.
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Infrastructure M&A
Our Global infrastructure M&A and finance team provides integrated specialist acquisition and financing advice across all infrastructure asset classes.
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Our Global infrastructure M&A team provides integrated specialist acquisition and financing advice across all infrastructure asset classes including energy and renewables, transport, digital, social infrastructure and power and utilities.
We provide clients with solutions driven by a core team of dedicated infrastructure sector professionals, supported by product specialists with cutting-edge M&A, finance and competition/regulatory expertise.
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Private Equity
Private equity is an ever-changing industry, and our practice is agile in evolving to keep pace.
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Our private equity practice is recognised for advising on some of the most complex, high profile transactions in the market. Combining our global reach and deep sector experience, our team regularly advise local and international sponsors, as well as portfolio companies and other finance providers, on all forms of private equity transactions. Our global team offers a fully integrated network of transactional expertise to provide the highest quality commercial advice to our clients.
Advising on a range of private company deals, investments and multi-billion public to private acquisitions, we represent sophisticated private equity investors, management teams and founders on transactions along the entire private equity life cycle, from fund formation and fundraising through acquisitions and disposals to portfolio exits.
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Distressed M&A
Our M&A team work closely with our restructuring and insolvency lawyers, as well as drawing up on specialists across the firm.
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Our team understands that M&A involving distressed businesses requires creative solutions and outside the box thinking. Our global corporate team works closely with our restructuring and special situations group to make sure our service delivery on distressed matters canvasses all available options.
We have a depth of expertise advising buyers, sellers and targets in distressed M&A processes and are well equipped to help manage risks and advise quickly on the complex issues associated with distressed M&A. Our clients can expect to work with an M&A team who is equally well versed in insolvency and restructuring matters and legal developments.
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Corporate Advisory / Governance
Ashurst Governance & Compliance (AGC) is dedicated to addressing the governance needs of directors, general counsel and company secretaries of many of the world's leading.
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The Ashurst Governance & Compliance team is dedicated to addressing the needs of directors, general counsel and company secretaries of public and larger private companies. Our multi-disciplinary team of lawyers assists clients to navigate the regulatory environment and to adopt best practice standards relevant to their business and the sectors in which they operate.
We offer a broad range of governance, regulatory, compliance and risk advisory services across all relevant practice areas encompassing members of our Corporate, Executive Incentives, Pensions, Corporate Crime, Financial Regulation, Data Privacy, Employment and Environment & Safety teams.
The Governance & Compliance team also works closely with our newly expanded Risk Advisory consultancy to provide our clients with the added value of technical expertise and critical thinking required to operationalise responses to legal and regulatory risk throughout a business. The same offering also allows us to help clients to respond to crisis situations including cyber attacks and fraud.
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High Growth and Venture Capital
We bring a wealth of global expertise to assist companies establishing their business so they have the right foundation to grow and prosper.
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We bring a wealth of global expertise to assist companies establishing their business so they have the right foundation to grow and prosper. We advise high growth companies venture and growth capital funds, corporate clients and other investors on the entire investment lifecycle.
We offer an end-to-end service providing a blend of commercially focused advice covering a range of matters, including corporate, debt and equity finance, regulatory, intellectual property, data protection, employment and incentives, tax and disputes.
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Public and Private M&A
Our market leading global M&A practice provides advice on all aspects of public and private M&A to some of the world's leading organisations.
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Our market leading global M&A practice provides advice on all aspects of public and private M&A to some of the world's leading organisations.
We support you at all stages of transactions and advise on the full range of deal structures from public takeovers/tender offers through to divestments, auctions, take privates and demergers. We pride ourselves on our deal execution and risk management skills which enable us to achieve the best possible outcome on any M&A transaction.
Our expertise across key sectors means you will benefit from our deep industry insights – critical in any transaction. Our dedicated industry teams have led on some of the most significant and innovative deals in the financial services, energy and resources, transport and infrastructure, media and telecommunications, real estate, health, technology and manufacturing sectors.
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Tech M&A
We can advise you on all stages of the Tech M&A Life cycle.
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Technology is a vital area of consideration for every business regardless of the sector they operate in. Our dedicated global team work with a variety of public and private clients at all stages of growth to execute their transactions and fundraisings and support the digitalisation of their business.
Combining our leading M&A practice with our Digital Economy group, we blend together our M&A and technology sector expertise to deliver real value to clients. Our practice is also supported by our New Law team which ensures we are at the front of tech innovation.
Global Guide to Public M&A 4th edition
Helping you navigate the global M&A landscape with summaries of the rules applying in a range of jurisdictions and answers to your key commercial issues.
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