Combined with the multi-jurisdictional skills of our lawyers in Sidley’s global network of offices, we are well positioned to represent clients with respect to acquiring minority and majority interests in business entities in and outside of the China region. Our clients include large and small corporations in various industries such as financial services, life sciences, real estate, energy and natural resources, metals, telecommunications, transportation, technology, infrastructure, chemicals, consumer products, food/beverage and media.
We assist our clients in all aspects of M&A, including:
- due diligence;
- regulatory issues;
- tender offers;
- corporate separations (spin-offs);
- negotiated and unsolicited transactions;
- transactions involving “troubled” companies;
- structuring and negotiating acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, strategic alliances, strategic stake acquisitions and sales and privatizations;
- public company acquisitions and “mergers of equals”; and
- financings, including through banks, the capital markets and financial sponsors, such as private equity and hedge funds.
Given the key role lawyers play in structuring business transactions, much of our work in this area involves structuring, planning and negotiating the approach with the deal team, in addition to customary legal analysis and drafting. We also assist our clients in China on post-M&A matters, including licenses, distribution, labor and tax.
We are consistently listed by the major, independent legal directories as one of the recommended firms for M&A in China and several of our lawyers are ranked as leading individuals for M&A.