Private M&A

Extensive Domestic and International Experience in all Facets of Private M&A Transactions.

Our Private M&A Group has extensive domestic and international experience representing clients in their most complex private M&A transactions, including mergers, equity and asset purchases, joint ventures and restructurings.  Our Private M&A Group brings together the highest standards of legal expertise with commercial and strategic judgment to find creative and often unprecedented solutions to meet the needs of our clients.  We fully understand the sectors within which our clients operate enabling us to become deeply involved as a truly valuable member of a broader client team.

Integrated strategy

Our integrated strategy allows us to combine both the cross-border capabilities of Milbank's M&A teams in the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia as well as our proven track record on all critical aspects of today's M&A deals including corporate, antitrust and acquisition finance.  Together with our Public M&A Group, we represent all the key participants in M&A transactions, including targets, bidders, sellers, control and minority shareholders, boards of directors, special committees and financial advisors.

Our expertise, both domestic and cross-border, includes the following types of transactions and advice: 

  • Negotiated mergers
  • Competitive auctions
  • Strategic alliances / joint ventures
  • Acquisitions and divestitures of private company equity and assets
  • Control and minority investments
  • Recapitalizations, reorganizations and work-outs
  • Advisory support to boards of directors and special committees.