Merger & Acquisition Attorneys

Facilitating Mergers and Acquisitions for Utah Businesses

Fillmore Spencer Business Law Team

William L. Fillmore

Richard W. Sheffield

Mark A. Shaffer

Scott P. Card

Matthew R. Howell

Mark D. Stubbs

Utah County attorneys provide counsel on all aspects of transactions and restructurings

Depending upon your business goals, industry trends and the economic environment, mergers and acquisitions often make excellent sense, enabling you to grow your business faster, restructure to exploit changes in business environments, and gain large broadly-held access to new markets, talent and intellectual property (IP). Fillmore Spencer LLC mergers and acquisitions (M&A) lawyers in Utah advise enterprises of varying sizes and types — from closely held companies, partnerships and limited liability companies (LLCs) to corporations — on the legal technicalities, risks and opportunities presented by simple and complex M&A deals. We also represent business clients in M&A litigation.

We work with companies from the consumer products, construction, education, energy, financial, food, healthcare, Internet, manufacturing, media, technology, telecommunications, and transportation sectors, helping to resolve issues involving deal structure, risk assessment, valuations, taxes, and implementation difficulties.

experienced legal counsel to shepherd your transaction from intent to close

About Our Business law Practice

A wide range of M&A-related transactions

We counsel and represent small, medium and large businesses and owners in a wide universe of M&A activities, including those involving:
  • Venture capital financings
  • Restructurings
  • Strategic alliances
  • Joint ventures
  • Asset transfers, sales and purchases
  • Monetary and nonmonetary acquisitions
  • Stock purchases and swaps
  • Tender offers
  • Friendly and hostile corporate takeovers
  • Leveraged buyouts
  • Management buyouts
  • Multiple-state business acquisitions
  • Spinoffs and other divestitures
  • Debtor reorganization
  • Mergers and acquisitions pre- or in lieu of bankruptcy
  • Refinancings
  • Reverse mergers
  • Succession planning
Our experience with corporations and business formation provides valuable additional perspective when structuring M&A deal.

Legal counsel for most aspects of M&A

Our mergers and acquisitions lawyers in Utah have more than 30 years of experience working with businesses with local, national and international reach, making us eminently qualified to assist your organization with all phases of M&A activity, including:

  • Letters of intent
  • Due diligence across all areas
  • Tax planning
  • Financing through securities offerings
  • Debt and liability strategies
  • Transaction negotiations
  • Transaction structuring
  • Purchase agreement drafting and negotiation
  • Opinion letters
  • Disclosure schedule preparation
  • Lease and contract assignments
  • Employee agreements
  • Transaction closing
  • Postclosing purchase price adjustments
  • Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and state regulation compliance and filings
  • Financial reporting
  • Integration

Representation before regulatory boards and courts

Attorneys at Fillmore Spencer LLC help clients meet regulatory deadlines and other requirements. We represent you in fairness proceedings involving a determination of the fairness of the terms and conditions of proposed exchanges, in filing Hart-Scott-Rodino antitrust compliance forms and exemption applications with the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice, and in other regulatory matters.

Hire the M&A team that complements your own

Fillmore Spencer LLC attorneys work hand in hand with you and any in-house general counsel to ensure your enterprise acts with clarity, purpose, agility and legal knowledge of the risks and opportunities presented by the latest capital markets, business structure, IP and tax laws and regulations. Call us at (801) 426-8200 or contact us online today to schedule an initial consultation.

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