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Mergers & Acquisitions
Just as boxers prepare half a lifetime for a title contest, our M&A team has done the hard work to make the weight. Lean, mean and muscled, it’s a team ready to step into the ring.
As Australia’s premier medium sized law firm, Middletons packs a surprising punch when it comes to mergers and acquisitions. Put it down to the training the spectators never see.
Our philosophy is simple: we do the hard work so that from our clients’ perspective, mergers and acquisitions are made easy. We have put together a dedicated and experienced team with the right mix of legal and commercial skills.
When the bell rings, we are ready to go.
Ours is not a black letter law approach. It’s more flexible than that. It’s about bringing together legal and commercial judgement and providing a service of consistent excellence. That way clients know that at every step transactions will be executed without hitches, without delay and without costly surprises.
Our deal sheet is our best advertisement. In recent years we have acted successfully for many Australian and foreign companies in mergers, restructures, joint ventures, acquisitions and sales. To deals big and small we bring consistency of method and constancy of purpose – and ultimately deliver extraordinary value.
In an area already exposed to market risks, we fully understand the need to control legal and advisory costs. So our approach to billing is unusually flexible. We are happy to discuss innovative alternatives to traditional time-based charges – including fixed fees, caps, uplifts and discounts.
We want our fees to reflect only the value we bring – our charges are not boosted by soft disbursements and, if requested, we provide weekly work-in-progress reports and monthly invoicing to allow transparent monitoring of expenditure.
Our M&A team is backed up by allies in other practice groups within Middletons, partners and lawyers in areas such as banking and finance, tax, property, workplace relations, corporate recovery and intellectual property. And we link in with a world-class network of investment banks, corporate advisers, accounting firms and other law firms as hungry as us to achieve a successful deal as you are.
We have developed a precedents database second to none, we have honed our technical ability to put together secure data rooms – both physical and electronic – and we have done some serious thinking about the science of dealmaking.
We hit our deadlines, that is our first undertaking to our clients, but we also make sure that nothing is left to chance. We are always looking for new and better ways of delivering the right business and legal advice, that is what makes us different.
It’s a great team to have in your corner.
