Milbank’s Global Corporate Practice serves many of the world’s leading commercial, financial and industrial enterprises, as well as institutions, individuals and governments, in connection with their most complex and important business transactions. We deliver tailored advice to clients internationally across the following key areas:
Mergers & Acquisitions (Public and Private)
Our M&A Practice assists clients in structuring, negotiating, documenting and closing complicated, innovative M&A transactions. We represent all the key participants in M&A transactions, including targets, bidders, minority shareholders, boards of directors and their special committees and financial advisors. Our expertise is far-ranging and includes negotiated mergers, contested transactions (including hostile tender offers and proxy contests), joint ventures/strategic alliances and majority/minority investments.
Private Equity
Milbank’s Private Equity practice has extensive experience across a range of sectors and geographic regions. We understand the dynamic of the private equity market, and respond quickly with innovative and commercially-orientated advice. Our approach is to assemble a lean, focused team of lawyers led by partners who are deeply involved in all aspects of the transaction. We represent all the key participants in these transactions, including bidders, sellers, managements and financial advisors, and we have particular expertise in public-to-private transactions, management buyouts and strategic investments.
Corporate Restructuring
Our Corporate Restructuring Practice has gained extensive experience over the years in several high-profile bankruptcy proceedings and out-of-court restructurings. The breadth and depth of our experience gives us substantive insight into the critical issues faced by parties with an interest in troubled business organizations. We represent all key participants in corporate restructuring transactions, including hedge funds, private equity and other investors, financially distressed corporations and creditors' committees.
Outsourcing & Technology
Milbank’s Outsourcing & Technology Practice has played a key role in some of the largest, most complex and strategic business process outsourcing and information technology transactions. We have had a significant role across a range of industry sectors internationally. Our expertise includes contributing to a successful competitive supplier selection process, structuring the arrangements, creating and commercializing captive service providers and restructuring poorly performing arrangements.
Corporate Advisory
We regularly advise corporations and their boards of directors (as well as their special committees) on a host of matters, including corporate governance issues, regulatory reporting requirements, takeovers and takeover defenses, public-to-privates and conflict of interest and executive compensation issues.
We also provide cutting-edge expertise in such key support areas as Tax, Antitrust, Real Estate, Employee Compensation and Benefits, Environment and Intellectual Property, and work closely with our preeminent Corporate Finance and Litigation Practices.
Operating as a single international partnership, Milbank is able to serve the needs of our clients in the U.S., Latin America, Europe and Asia from our offices in the key financial jurisdictions, with the right mix of international and local capability. We take pride in being able to organize ourselves to meet the client's needs, by leading and resourcing any transaction out of any office.
We believe that the success of our clients over the years demonstrates our own success in providing the high level of services that sophisticated clients require today from their external legal advisors in connection with high-profile corporate and M&A transactions.