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- Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions/Securities
- Aviation Law
- Corporate & Securities
- Corporate Finance
- Corporate Governance
- Incentives
- International
- Joint Ventures/ Partnerships/ Limited Liability Companies
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Private Equity & Mezzanine Finance
- Securities
Mergers & Acquisitions
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Moore & Van Allen's merger and acquisition team of over 50 attorneys is committed to delivering high quality and timely legal services to our clients whether they are large public corporations, private equity funds or successful entrepreneurs. We have extensive experience advising clients in all aspects of buying and selling businesses, including purchases and sales of equity and assets, merger transactions, going private transactions, recapitalizations and other corporate restructurings. We have represented private and public buyers and sellers and have been engaged in both domestic and cross border transactions. In addition to the superior quality and breadth of our technical expertise, our responsiveness and ability to coordinate multiple legal disciplines allows us to provide the service that our clients desire and deserve.
To supplement the expertise our merger and acquisition specialists have in structuring transactions, developing strategies and understanding "market" acquisition terms, we have the support of attorneys throughout our firm to advise on tax, environmental, intellectual property, labor and employment, antitrust, corporate finance, litigation and real estate issues. We also work closely with the firm's private equity team to meet the unique needs of emerging growth, start-up and private equity clients.
We assist our clients from pre-transaction planning and structuring through due diligence, negotiating and drafting definitive documentation, financing, closing and resolution of post-closing adjustments and other post-closing issues. Our merger and acquisition attorneys strive to protect the value of our client's transactions while at the same time making certain that we provide practical solutions to the issues that arise in the course of our representation. We understand that our clients want to work with attorneys who can not only identify important risks, but can also negotiate to minimize those risks while maximizing the realization of the client's goals and objectives.
Representative Transactions include:
- Represented Rexam Inc. in the acquisition of the worldwide plastic packaging business of Owens-Illinois Group Inc. for a purchase price of $1.825 billion.
- Represented Nucor Corporation in the acquisition of The David J. Joseph Company, a U.S. based scrap company, from a Netherlands private investment company, SHV Holdings N.V., in a transaction valued at US$1.45 billion.
- Represented NV-HAIC, a Netherlands Holding Company, and J.P. Morgan Partners in connection with the sale of all of the stock of TriPoint Global Communications, Inc. to General Dynamics Corporation in a transaction valued at $350 million.
- Represented Bank of America in the sale of its Factoring Division to GMAC.
- Represented Nucor Corporation in the cross-border stock purchase of all of the issued and outstanding shares of Harris Steel Group Inc., a publicly traded Canadian company, in a transaction valued at approximately Cdn$1.3 billion.
- Represented Nucor Corporation in connection with the creation of a joint venture with the Duferco Group, including the acquisition by Nucor European Holdings B.V. of a 50% equity interest in Duferdofin S.p.A., an Italian steel company, in a transaction valued at approximately US$660 million.
- Represented CT Communications, Inc., a public telecommunications company, in its merger with Windstream Corporation in a transaction valued at approximately $585 million.
- Represented Alcatel, an international telecommunications company, and its subsidiary, Alcatel USA, Inc., in connection with their purchase of the stock of Packet Engines Incorporated in a merger transaction valued at approximately $300 million.
- Represented MedCath, a developer and owner of hospitals throughout the U.S., in its going private transaction in which it was acquired by Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts and Welsh Carson Anderson and Stowe.
- Represented Nucor Corporation in connection with its acquisition by merger of Magnatrax Corporation, a metal building systems company, in a transaction valued at approximately $280 million.
- Represented AGY Holding Corp. in connection with the sale of the company to Kohlberg & Company, LLC in a merger transaction valued at approximately $280 million.
- Represented Nucor Corporation in the asset purchase agreement of Verco Manufacturing Company, a steel decking company, for a purchase price of approximately $180 million.
- Represented Harris Steel, Inc. in the stock purchase acquisition of Ambassador Steel Corporation and Delta Erecting, Inc. in a transaction valued at $350 million.
- Represented Watsco, Inc. in a tender offer for, and merger of, ACR Group, Inc., a public company engaged in the distribution of air conditioning and heating products, in a transaction valued at $117 million. The firm also represented Watsco in the financing of this transaction.
- Represented Alcatel N.A. Cable Systems, Inc. in connection with the sale of its copper cable business to Alpine Group, Inc. in a transaction valued at $110 million.
- Represented Harris Rebar Atlantic Inc. and Harris Rebar Boston Inc. in connection with the formation of a joint venture between the Harris Companies and Barker Steel Company in a transaction valued at $83 million.
- Represented Rexam Inc. in the formation of a joint venture with a leading Mexican packaging manufacturer, Envases Universales, to own and operate a new beverage can manufacturing plant in Guatemala which will supply beverage cans to Central America.
- Represented Nucor Brasil in connection with the sale of all of its stock in Ferro Gusa Carajas, a pig iron manufacturer in northern Brazil, to Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (Vale) valued at approximately $35 million.
- Represented the equityholders of Commercial Defeasance, LLC, a business engaged in providing services related to the defeasance of commercial mortgages, in the sale of a controlling interest to Summit Partners and other buyers.
- Represented Cogentrix Energy, Inc. in the sale of a 50% partnership interest in Birchwood Power Partners, L.P., an independent electric power project located in Virginia to General Electric Capital Corporation.
- Represented Rexam plc in the purchase of 89% of the stock of Latasa SA, a beverage can manufacturer headquartered in Brazil, from Branco Bradesco, SA, and subsidiaries of JP Morgan and Reynolds International.