Corporate Transactions, Finance & Governance
The Squire Sanders corporate practice has a global dimension. With corporate lawyers in each of our offices worldwide, our global footprint makes corporate expertise available to you anywhere, anytime.
Squire Sanders corporate lawyers provide counsel to and serve the transactional needs of large public and private companies, as well as a select group of emerging companies, around the world. Our expertise covers diverse industries and professions around the world.
We provide you with services ranging from day-to-day counsel for senior management to the coordinated expertise needed to lead you through complex business transactions, including:
- Anticorruption compliance
- Commercial finance
- Corporate finance
- Corporate governance
- Counseling on capital structure
- Dispositions
- Emerging businesses
- Executive compensation
- Joint ventures
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Private equity
- Secured transactions
- Securities law compliance
- Takeovers and proxy contests
Our international corporate practice is consistently lauded for its knowledge and skill.
The Best Lawyers in America 2010 notes 20 Squire Sanders corporate lawyers. In addition,
Chambers Global 2009 recognizes Squire Sanders as a leading corporate practice in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia, the Slovak Republic and Venezuela, as well as in the Dominican Republic for general business law. We also are recommended by
The Legal 500 Asia Pacific for our corporate/M&A work in China and Japan.
Practice Expertise
Representative Experience
- Serving as counsel to an owner and manager of theme parks in a US$160 million IPO of master limited partnership units; the underwriter was a global advisory investment bank.
- Serving as issuer's counsel to an Internet advertising network representing specialty-content websites in connection with the client's US$38 million initial public offering. The company's common stock will be listed on AIM, the small cap market operated by the London Stock Exchange.
- Serving as counsel to a communications entity focused on global development, finance and operations, in the US$1 billion private equity financing and acquisition of a 54.2-percent interest in a European telecommunications company. The original owners of the telecommunications company maintained a significant ownership interest in the company. The business franchise encompasses more than 2.4 million homes (90 percent of Flemish households), of which 2.2 million are CATV subscribers. The company supplies cable services to Flanders, one of Belgium’s most prosperous regions, home to six million people, 58 percent of Belgium's population and one of the most densely populated areas in Europe.
- Representing private equity fund Compass Group in connection with the IPO of an affiliated investment trust, as well as the fund’s divestiture and the trust’s acquisition of controlling interests in four portfolio companies valued at US$340 million. Immediately following the closing of the IPO and the acquisition by the trust of these four businesses, we represented the trust in connection with third party financing and intercompany loans.
- Serving as counsel to a Spain-based parent and issuer in an IPO of US$150 million of Nasdaq-listed shares, the first transaction in which a Spain-based company has made its public debut in the United States rather than in Spain.
- Serving as counsel to the acquirer, a US-based producer of specialty materials for industry, in the US$130 million acquisition of a polymer modifiers business with plants in New Jersey, Wales and Belgium.
- Serving as counsel to the purchaser, a publicly traded, Japan-based global printing and printing products company, in its US$650 million acquisition of the stock of one of the leading worldwide producers of photomasks, used in the manufacture of semiconductors; the company operates the industry's most expansive global photomask production network, spanning China, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and the United States.
- Representing the publicly traded owner-operator of a nationally prominent group of seasonal amusement parks in its US$1.24 billion acquisition of a group of five large amusement parks. The purchase agreement was reached through intensive negotiations and an auction process that included more than 40 bidders. We also represented the client in a US$2 billion bridge financing for the cash transaction that closed simultaneously with the acquisition and in the subsequent US$2 billion permanent financing.
- Representing Goodrich Corporation in the US$1.4 billion auction sale of its performance materials (specialty chemicals) division to a private equity group. The division had approximately US$1.2 billion in sales, from 32 plants in 10 countries.
- Representing a global telecommunications investment firm in its acquisition of 55 percent of Telenet Holding S.A., the largest provider of point-to-point telephony, broadband Internet access and multimedia services in Belgium, in a transaction valued at more than €2 billion. We also served as counsel to the equity group in Telenet's subsequent acquisition of the cable television business of Flanders' Mixed Intercommunales in a transaction valued at just under €1 billion.
Case Studies
When Madrid-based pharmaceutical business Industrial Farmaceutica Cantabria sought legal assistance with a problematic investment in a Florida-based pharmaceutical company, a recommendation led the company’s corporate officers to Squire Sanders. A me...
Squire Sanders was selected in 2004 to serve as General Counsel to the 800 MHz Transition Administrator (TA), a hand-picked team charged with oversight and administration of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) 800 MHz reconfiguration progra...
Situation:Cedar Fair, L.P., learned that CBS intended to sell its five US and Canadian Paramount amusement parks through an auction process. If Cedar Fair were able to acquire these parks, it could approximately double its holdings.Challenge:Cedar Fa...