Business Mergers, Acquisitions & Sales

At Bricker Graydon, we have a long, rich history representing a diverse array of businesses — from large corporations to small enterprises, publicly traded to privately held, family-owned to management-owned — in a multitude of merger, acquisition, and sale transactions.

Our approach involves assembling a dedicated legal team tailored specifically to your transaction, incorporating experience in corporate, tax, employee benefits, intellectual property, human resources, real estate, and environmental matters. Whether structuring transactions through asset or stock purchases, forward and reverse mergers, ESOP utilization, private tender offers, or asset acquisitions in bankruptcy proceedings, we deploy a comprehensive set of legal tools.

Here are some representative transactions that our M&A attorneys have recently closed on behalf of our clients:

• Represented the owners of a company in an ESOP transaction ($29M)
• Equity sale of a manufacturing client to a company controlled by a foreign private equity company ($20.4M)
• Asset and real estate sale of a family owned cutting tool manufacturer ($20M)
• Asset and real estate purchase of a manufacturing company ($32M)
• Asset purchase of a manufacturing plant ($25M)
• Represented company and sellers in a $165M ESOP transaction
• Equity sale and equity rollover transaction of non-profit endowment management company ($30M)
• Asset sale of 3-location recycling and environmentally conscious waste disposal company ($22M)
• Asset and real estate sale of a global distributor of automotive and residential dampening materials ($7M)
• Asset sale of 21-location optometry practice to regional competitor ($45M)

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