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21st Annual

Mergers and Acquisitions Institute

Dallas Oct 9-10, 2025 The Ritz-Carlton $895 Individual "Early-bird"  |  $995 after Jun 5  |  $1,095 after Sep 24 $395 In-House Counsel "Early-bird"  |  $595 after Jun 5  |  $695 after Sep 24 $805 Group rate per person (5 registrants minimum) "Early-bird"  |  $895 after Jun 5  |  $985 after Sep 24 $715 Group rate per person (10 registrants minimum) "Early-bird"  |  $795 after Jun 5  |  $875 after Sep 24
Live Webcast Oct 9-10, 2025 $795 Individual $395 In-House Counsel $715 Group rate per person (5 registrants minimum) $635 Group rate per person (10 registrants minimum) $100 Add-on rate for in-person registrants
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INSTITUTE MAGNATES
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Latham & Watkins LLP
Aon
Jackson Walker
Stout
Haynes and Boone, LLP
WTW

INSTITUTE TYCOONS
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (Canada)
Lincoln International
McGriff Insurance Services
Mosaic Insurance
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
McCarthy Tétrault LLP (Canada)
Hunton
SRS Acquiom LLC
Calvetti Ferguson

INSTITUTE WILDCATTERS
Baker Botts L.L.P.
Bracewell LLP
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Freshfields US LLP
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Holland & Knight LLP
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C.
Sidley Austin LLP
Stikeman Elliott LLP (Canada)
Vinson & Elkins LLP
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Wilmington Trust
Winston & Strawn LLP

SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION
ABA Business Law Section Mergers and Acquisitions Committee

MEDIA SPONSOR
The Texas Lawbook

Overview

UT Law CLE’s Mergers and Acquisitions Institute is the leading private M&A conference of its kind in the U.S. for the latest deal trends, structures, pitfalls and opportunities in M&A. The combination of a cutting-edge program with nationally recognized speakers, prestigious U.S. and international sponsors, the Byron Egan Whiskey Tasting, invaluable networking opportunities, and much more, makes this an event you won’t want to miss!

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Event Schedule

Program is subject to change.
All times are Central Time Zone.

  • Day 1 October 9, 2025
  • Day 2 October 10, 2025
  • Time
    Credit
    Subject
    Speaker
  • Thursday Morning, Oct. 9, 2025
  • This agenda is still in development. Updates to topics and speakers will be posted as available.

  • 8:00 am
    Dallas Only
    Continental Breakfast and Registration Opens

    Thank You to Our Thursday Breakfast Sponsor


    Thank You to Our Thursday Espresso Bar Sponsor

  • 8:30 am
    Welcoming Remarks by Institute Co-Chairs

    Wilson Chu, McDermott Will & Emery LLP - Dallas, TX
    Larry E. Glasgow, Jackson Walker LLP - Dallas, TX

  • 8:45 am
    1.00 hr
    Hot Topics in Private Equity M&A

  • 9:45 am
    1.00 hr
    0.50 hr ethics
    DE-xit and Texas: Race to the Top?

  • 10:45 am
    15-Minute Break

  • 11:00 am
    1.00 hr
    New Sheriff in Town: Negotiating Today’s Antitrust Provisions

  • 12:00 pm
    Break for Lunch (30 Minutes)

  • Thursday Afternoon, Oct. 9, 2025
  • LUNCHEON PRESENTATION
  • Signature Ritz-Carlton Lunch
    Included in registration. Please proceed to luncheon presentation.

    Thank You to Our Luncheon Sponsor

  • 12:30 pm
    0.75 hr ethics
    Luncheon Keynote: A Conversation with the Texas Stock Exchange

  • 1:15 pm
    15-Minute Break

  • 1:30 pm
    1.00 hr ethics
    Conflict Transactions: Developments in Navigating Perilous Waters

  • 2:30 pm
    1.00 hr
    0.25 hr ethics
    Current Issues in Energy M&A

  • 3:30 pm
    Dallas Only
    13th Annual Byron Egan Whiskey Tasting & Coffee Break
    Join us for a tasting of Byron Egan's favorite Irish and Scotch whiskeys.

    Thank You to Our Whiskey Tasting Sponsor

  • 4:00 pm
    1.25 hrs
    0.50 hr ethics
    Mock Negotiation: Negotiating Fraud

  • 5:15 pm
    Adjourn

  • 5:15 pm
    Dallas Only
    Cocktail Reception (in Dallas from 5:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.)
    Join us for adult beverages and hors d'oeuvres with Institute faculty and attendees.

    Thank You to Our Cocktail Reception Sponsor

  • Thank You to Our Additional Magnate and Tycoon Sponsors

    Wi-Fi Sponsor


    Golf Ball Sponsor


    Speakers' Dinner Sponsor


    Lanyard Sponsor

    Power Drops Sponsor


    Webcast Underwriter


    Hotel Key Card Sponsor


    Tote Bag Sponsor


    Hand Sanitizer Sponsor

  • Time
    Credit
    Subject
    Speaker
  • Friday Morning, Oct. 10, 2025
  • 8:00 am
    Dallas Only
    Continental Breakfast and Conference Room Opens

    Thank You to Our Friday Breakfast Sponsor

    Thank You to Our Friday Espresso Bar Sponsor

  • 8:30 am
    1.00 hr
    Negotiating and Drafting Around the Most Litigated Risks and Provisions in the RWI World

  • 9:30 am
    1.00 hr ethics
    Deal Ethics

  • 10:30 am
    1.00 hr
    The Wild Wild (Glenn) West Show!

  • 11:30 am
    Adjourn

  • Day 1 October 9, 2025
  • Day 2 October 10, 2025
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Planning Committee

Wilson Chu—Co-Chair

McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Dallas, TX

Larry E. Glasgow—Co-Chair

Jackson Walker LLP
Dallas, TX

Joanna Jefferson—Director

The University of Texas School of Law
Austin, TX

Zach Burnett

Haynes Boone, LLP
Dallas, TX

Samantha Hale Crispin

Baker Botts L.L.P.
Dallas, TX

Dawud Crooms

Atlantic Aviation
Dallas, TX

Byron F. Egan

Jackson Walker LLP
Dallas, TX

J. Holt Foster III

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Dallas, TX

Kirsten Jensen

McKesson Corporation
The Woodlands, TX

Robert R. Kibby

Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C.
Dallas, TX

Robert B. Little

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Dallas, TX

Cookie F. Munson

Cardone Ventures
Flagstaff, AZ

David Rex

Prophet Equity
Southlake, TX

Brittany A. Sakowitz

Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Houston, TX

Brandon Satterwhite

AT&T
Dallas, TX

Nina Tsai

Walmart
Dallas, TX

Cliff W. Vrielink

Sidley Austin LLP
Houston, TX

Key Dates

Dallas – Oct 9-10, 2025 – The Ritz-Carlton
Live Webcast – Oct 9-10, 2025
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  • Dallas
  • Live Webcast
Individual
Last day for $895.00 Early Bird pricing: Jun 5, 2025
Last day for $995.00 Regular pricing: Sep 24, 2025

$1,095.00 for registrations received after this time

In-House Counsel
Last day for $395.00 Early Bird pricing: Jun 5, 2025
Last day for $595.00 Regular pricing: Sep 24, 2025

$695.00 for registrations received after this time

Group (5 registrants minimum)
Last day for $805.00 Early Bird pricing: Jun 5, 2025
Last day for $895.00 Regular pricing: Sep 24, 2025

$985.00 for registrations received after this time

Group (10 registrants minimum)
Last day for $715.00 Early Bird pricing: Jun 5, 2025
Last day for $795.00 Regular pricing: Sep 24, 2025

$875.00 for registrations received after this time

Last day for cancellation (full refund): Oct 3, 2025

$50 processing fee applied after this date

Last day for cancellation: Oct 6, 2025
Individual
In-House Counsel
Group (5 registrants minimum)
Group (10 registrants minimum)
Add-on
Last day for cancellation (full refund): Oct 3, 2025

$50 processing fee applied after this date

Last day for cancellation: Oct 6, 2025

Venue

speaker

The Ritz-Carlton

2121 McKinney Avenue
Dallas, TX
800.960.7082 (reservations)

Our Sponsors

Thank you to our sponsors! Click each logo below to learn more.

  • Sullivan & Cromwell LLP logo
    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP provides the highest quality legal advice and representation to clients around the world. The results the Firm achieves have set it apart for more than 140 years and have become a model for the modern practice of law. Today, S&C is a leader in each of its core practice areas and in each of its geographic markets. S&C’s multidisciplinary M&A Group brings a rare combination of creativity and commercial sensitivity to every representation. The firm advises a diverse range of clients on major domestic and cross-border M&A and corporate finance transactions, high-stakes litigation and corporate investigations and complex regulatory, tax and estate planning matters. S&C’s close collaboration with clients, other advisers and colleagues gives our team the versatility to best serve the needs of clients in achieving their strategic business objectives. S&C comprises approximately 875 lawyers who serve clients around the world through a network of 13 offices, located in leading financial centers in Asia, Australia, Europe and the United States. The Firm is headquartered in New York.
    www.sullcrom.com
  • Latham & Watkins LLP logo
    Latham & Watkins LLP
    Latham & Watkins is an international law firm providing clients across the globe with exceptional legal services and innovative solutions to their most complex business issues and disputes. Clients turn to Latham for help with enterprise transforming transactions and to defend bet-the company-disputes as well as day-to-day guidance and preventative advice. Latham lawyers deliver market-leading service in more than 60 internationally recognized practices, regional and industry-focused teams, ranging from financial services to technology, oil and gas to retail. With more than 2,700 lawyers across a global platform spanning 14 countries, we are positioned in the world’s major financial, business, and regulatory centers to serve clients—wherever they may be. Affirming the firm culture and strong client relationships, Latham was included on The American Lawyer’s prestigious “A-List” for the 21st consecutive year and honored as a 2023 Texas Powerhouse for guiding numerous high-value transactions and major litigation wins for clients in the state. www.lw.com
  • Aon logo
    Aon
    Aon's M&A and Transaction Solutions is a leading M&A advisor and innovator of solutions and services that help secure investments, maximize deal value and drive transaction success by solving wide-ranging issues facing dealmakers throughout the deal lifecycle. Solutions and services include transactional insurance instruments such as representations and warranties insurance and tax and litigation insurance; specialized due diligence, including people and human capital, insurance, cyber and intellectual property; working capital solutions; and digital, cyber, and intellectual property transaction advisory capabilities. Working across industries and covering more than 35 countries, Aon's highly experienced teams use proprietary industry data and insights drawn from the more than 4,000 global deals supported annually.
    www.aon.com
  • Jackson Walker logo
    Jackson Walker
    For more than 130 years, Jackson Walker has played a vital role in the growth and development of Texas business. Since our founding in 1887, our attorneys have represented some of the most influential companies in the state in key industries that shaped the course of Texas history, including railroads, the media, and oil and gas exploration. Today, we remain firmly rooted in Texas while serving clients around the globe. With more than 500 attorneys in our six offices, we serve clients around the world in a broad range of practices and industries. We have extensive experience representing publicly and privately held companies, private equity funds and hedge funds in mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures and other strategic alliances. But we’re more than just deal lawyers. We also serve as outside general counsel to hundreds of companies, working closely with management to provide pragmatic solutions to legal problems as they arise. Whether it’s negotiating commercial contracts, improving corporate governance, or navigating securities regulations, clients look to us for guidance on the issues that affect their businesses every day. Our clients know they can count on us to deliver personalized service, legal experience, and added value. We invite you to learn more about Jackson Walker at jw.com.
    www.jw.com
  • Stout logo
    Stout
    Stout is a global advisory firm specializing in corporate finance, accounting and transaction advisory, valuation, financial disputes, claims, and investigations. We serve a range of clients, from public corporations to privately held companies in numerous industries. Our clients and their advisors rely on our premier expertise, deep industry knowledge, and unparalleled responsiveness on complex matters.
    www.stout.com
  • Haynes and Boone, LLP logo
    Haynes and Boone, LLP
    Haynes and Boone, LLP, is an American Lawyer top 100 law firm, originally founded by business lawyers who wanted to help companies succeed and grow. Our M&A team plays an integral role in continuing to carry out this endeavor and understands more than ever how to get deals done in an increasingly global and complex marketplace.

    Our M&A practice group is a powerful force in middle-market deals. Clients have turned to us to help close more than 500 transactions in the last five years, with an aggregate value exceeding $50 billion. We routinely represent private equity funds, public companies, closely held companies, founders and family businesses. Last year our firm was ranked among the Top 5 most active M&A law firms in Texas in a leading industry ranking.

    The firm’s recent recognition includes being ranked in Chambers USA, in 2023 for Corporate/M&A (Texas and Colorado) and in the Legal 500 U.S. M&A middle-market category for 2022. Also, the firm was recognized in the 2022 BTI Consulting Group’s “A-Team” report, which identified firms commended by in-house counsel for superior client service, and was ranked 14th in The American Lawyer’s 2023 Diversity Scorecard.
    www.haynesboone.com
  • WTW logo
    WTW
    At WTW (NASDAQ: WTW) we provide data-driven, insight-led solutions in the areas of people, risk and capital. Leveraging the global view and local expertise of our colleagues serving 140 countries and markets, we help you sharpen your strategy, enhance organizational resilience, motivate your workforce and maximize performance. Working shoulder to shoulder with you, we uncover opportunities for sustainable success – and provide perspective that moves you.
    www.wtwco.com/en-us/solutions/services/transactional-insurance
  • Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (Canada) logo
    Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (Canada)
    Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (Blakes) is a leading Canadian law firm with offices across Canada, as well as in New York and London.
     
    The Firm has one of the strongest and most experienced private equity legal practices in Canada. They drive innovative investment structures and strategic thinking, with a depth of industry knowledge and perspectives in each Canadian market.
     
    For more information, please visit www.blakes.com.
    www.blakes.com
  • Lincoln International logo
    Lincoln International
    We are trusted investment banking advisors to business owners and senior executives of leading private equity firms and their portfolio companies and to public and privately held companies around the world. Our services include mergers and acquisitions advisory, private funds and capital markets advisory, and valuations and fairness opinions. As one tightly integrated team of more than 1,000 professionals in more than 25 offices in 15 countries, we offer an unobstructed perspective on the global private capital markets, backed by superb execution and a deep commitment to client success. With extensive industry knowledge and relationships, timely market intelligence and strategic insights, we forge deep, productive client relationships that endure for decades. Connect with us to learn more at www.lincolninternational.com. www.lincolninternational.com/
  • McGriff Insurance Services logo
    McGriff Insurance Services
    With more than a century of experience, McGriff provides highly customized insurance, risk management, and employee benefit solutions for organizations of all sizes. McGriff is the retail brokerage subsidiary of Truist Insurance Holdings, Inc., the sixth largest insurance broker in the U.S. and the seventh largest in the world. We see ourselves as strategic, consultative partners to our clients, providing them with the kind of best-in-class global services they expect from their most trusted advisors. To meet these expectations, McGriff has assembled a team of the very best and brightest professionals in the transactional insurance and executive risk industry and charged them with being creative problem solvers with a focus on responding to the specific needs of our clientele.
    www.mcgriff.com
  • Mosaic Insurance logo
    Mosaic Insurance
    Mosaic Insurance is a next-generation, global specialty insurer that launched operations in February 2021. Coupling new Lloyd’s Syndicate 1609 and a wholly-owned syndicated capital management agency with underwriting hubs in Bermuda, London, New York, and Asia, Mosaic is uniquely positioned to offer capacity and custom service to clients in leading markets around the world.
     
    Mosaic’s focus is complex specialty lines of business with strong growth trends—transactional liability (M&A), cybersecurity, political risk, political violence, financial institutions and professional liability insurance. Our underwriters’ expertise and discerning approach set us apart in these challenging niche markets, and we match our people with a pioneering insurtech platform to ensure an agile response and end-to-end efficiencies.
     
    Mosaic leverages the legacy of the Lloyd's brand, along with the market’s strong ratings and global license network. Our financial-strength ratings include: A, Excellent Outlook (AM Best), AA-, Very Strong Outlook (Fitch Ratings), and A+, Strong Outlook (Standard & Poor’s).
     
    Visit mosaicinsurance.com and follow us at @Mosaic1609.
    www.mosaicinsurance.com
  • Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP logo
    Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
    With approximately 1,700 attorneys in 21 offices on four continents, Skadden serves clients in every major financial center. Our strategically positioned U.S. and international locations allow us proximity to our clients and their operations and ensure a seamless and unified approach at all times. For more than 70 years, Skadden has provided legal services to the business, financial and governmental communities around the world in a wide range of high-profile transactions, regulatory matters, and litigation and controversy issues. Our clients range from a variety of small, entrepreneurial companies to a substantial number of the 500 largest U.S. corporations and many of the leading global companies. We have represented numerous governments, many of the largest banks — including virtually all of the leading investment banks — and major insurance and financial services companies. The firm has more than 50 practice areas and advises clients in matters involving, among others, mergers and acquisitions, litigation and arbitration, corporate finance, corporate restructuring, securities law, banking, project finance, energy, antitrust, tax and intellectual property.
    www.skadden.com
  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP (Canada) logo
    McCarthy Tétrault LLP (Canada)
    McCarthy Tétrault LLP is a Canadian-based, national full-service law firm, with a leading reputation for providing top-tier legal services across jurisdictions and industries, delivering strategic and industry-focused advice and solutions for Canadian and international interests, including on some of the most complex and high-stakes domestic and cross-border transactions. The firm maintains a substantial presence in each of Canada’s major commercial centres, as well as in New York and London.
    www.mccarthy.ca
  • Hunton logo
    Hunton
    With over 900 lawyers in the United States, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, Hunton serves clients across a broad range of complex transactional, litigation, and regulatory matters. We are known for our strength in the energy, financial services, real estate, retail and consumer products, and technology industries, as well as our considerable experience in more than 100 distinct areas of practice, including mergers and acquisitions. Our experienced M&A team has handled 1,200 transactions worth approximately $200 billion in the past five years. With proven experience managing transactions ranging from acquisitions of private equity-backed companies, to leading a $30 billion merger-of-equals to create the nation’s largest regulated utility, our team has the knowledge to handle all of your M&A needs.
    www.hunton.com/
  • SRS Acquiom LLC logo
    SRS Acquiom LLC
    SRS Acquiom has been a service provider to the private M&A market since 2008 and works regularly with VC/PE fund clients and their counsel in the specific roles of escrow agent, paying agent and shareholder representative for those transactions. In addition to our work in those roles, we have a robust thought leadership group who publishes M&A data studies, white papers and other materials that professional investors in private companies find useful. 
    www.srsacquiom.com
  • Calvetti Ferguson logo
    Calvetti Ferguson
    Calvetti Ferguson offers comprehensive advisory services tailored for middle-market companies. This includes strategic M&A transaction support for the middle market engaged in mergers and acquisitions. With expertise in both buy-side and sell-side transactions, Calvetti Ferguson has a proven track record across various industries. Calvetti Ferguson provides fully integrated advisory, accounting, and tax services throughout the entire transaction process. By consolidating these services into one provider, we streamline the process, saving time, reducing complexity, and ultimately maximizing your return on investment. www.calvettiferguson.com
  • Baker Botts L.L.P. logo
    Baker Botts L.L.P.
    Baker Botts is an international law firm whose lawyers practice throughout a network of offices around the globe. Based on our experience and knowledge of our clients' industries, we are recognized as a leading firm in the energy, technology and life sciences sectors. Since 1840, we have provided creative and effective legal solutions for our clients while demonstrating an unrelenting commitment to excellence. For more information, please visit bakerbotts.com.
    www.bakerbotts.com
  • Bracewell LLP logo
    Bracewell LLP
    Bracewell LLP is a leading law firm that is known worldwide for its unique depth and experience in the energy, infrastructure, finance and technology sectors. To complement our sector-focused excellence, we boast an impressive and diversified array of market-leading substantive practices, including award-winning transactional, litigation, regulatory and government relations practices. This robust mix of sector and practice strengths has allowed us to be a firm of choice for many of the world’s largest and most successful corporate enterprises, financial institutions, private funds and governmental entities.
     
    Our firm’s success is anchored by four authentic pillars of strength: a culture based on personal relationships, collaboration and a shared passion for the firm and its clients; our distinction as a destination firm for talent; blue-chip clients; and a reputation for excellence as a sector and large practice powerhouse.
     
    bracewell.com bracewell.com/
  • Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP logo
    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
    Cleary Gottlieb is a global law firm with over 1,100 lawyers from more than 50 countries. We work across practices, industries, jurisdictions, and continents to provide clients with simple, actionable approaches to their most complex legal and business challenges. Clients know Cleary for our signature approach to serving their needs with a wide range of integrated capabilities in antitrust, bank regulatory, capital markets, corporate governance, enforcement, litigation, M&A, tax, and more.
     
    We support every client relationship with intellectual agility, commercial acumen, and a human touch. We have a proven track record for serving with innovation. We are fluent in the many languages of local and global business. And we have achieved consistent success in multiple jurisdictions.
     
    Global corporations, financial institutions, sovereign governments, local businesses, and individuals come to us for consistently practical and forward-looking advice.
    www.clearygottlieb.com
  • Freshfields US LLP logo
    Freshfields US LLP
    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP is a global elite law firm with a long-standing track record of successfully supporting the world’s leading national and multinational corporations, financial institutions and governments on groundbreaking and business-critical mandates. Our 2,800-plus lawyers and other legal professionals deliver results worldwide through our own offices and alongside leading local firms. Our commitment, local and multinational expertise, and business know-how means our clients rely on us when it matters most.
     
    Freshfields is ranked by Chambers Global in Band 1 across the six areas of antitrust, corporate/M&A, litigation, international arbitration, tax, and public international law. For more information visit Freshfields.us.
    www.freshfields.com/en
  • Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP logo
    Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
    Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is a leading international law firm. Consistently ranking among the world’s top law firms in industry surveys and major publications, Gibson Dunn is distinctively positioned in today’s global marketplace with more than 1,800 lawyers and 20 offices, including Abu Dhabi, Beijing, Brussels, Century City, Dallas, Denver, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, Orange County, Palo Alto, Paris, San Francisco, Singapore, and Washington, D.C. For more information on Gibson Dunn, please visit our website.
    www.gibsondunn.com
  • Holland & Knight LLP logo
    Holland & Knight LLP
    Holland & Knight LLP is a global law firm with approximately 2,200 lawyers and other professionals in 34 offices around the world. The firm's lawyers provide full-service representation in business, litigation, real estate, healthcare and governmental law. With approximately 390 attorneys in Holland & Knight's Mergers and Acquisitions Team around the globe, the firm represents businesses and investors in all aspects of domestic and cross-border sales, mergers, acquisitions, consolidations, joint ventures, combinations and corporate restructuring.
    www.hklaw.com/en/
  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP logo
    Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

    Katten is a full-service law firm with approximately 700 attorneys in locations across the United States and in London and Shanghai. Clients seeking sophisticated, high-value legal services turn to Katten for counsel locally, nationally and internationally. The firm’s core areas of practice include corporate, mergers and acquisitions, financial markets and funds, insolvency and restructuring, intellectual property, litigation, real estate, structured finance and securitization, transactional tax planning, health care, private credit and private wealth. Katten represents public and private companies in numerous industries, as well as a number of government and nonprofit organizations and individuals. To learn more, visit www.katten.com.

    www.katten.com
  • McDermott Will & Emery LLP logo
    McDermott Will & Emery LLP
    Leading organizations turn to global law firm McDermott Will & Emery for a better way to address legal challenges, connect with those at the forefront, and drive stronger outcomes. Working across more than 20 offices globally, our 1,400+ lawyers act on data-driven insights, deep relationships, and unmatched industry experience to deliver on our commitment of Always Better.
    www.mwe.com
  • Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. logo
    Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C.
    Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C., is a Texas-based, mid-sized commercial law firm with more than 160 attorneys in Dallas, Houston and Austin. From corporate transactions to dispute resolution, Munsch Hardt provides wide-ranging legal expertise to its clients, navigating each step with in-depth knowledge and responsive action. Munsch Hardt attorneys are known for having large law firm backgrounds and providing clients with a personal and focused approach.
    www.munsch.com
  • Sidley Austin LLP logo
    Sidley Austin LLP
    Sidley’s M&A group provides experience in the structuring, negotiation and financing of a broad range of domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, as well as in the design and implementation of structural defenses to unsolicited takeover proposals, including shareholder rights plans.
     
    The group handles a broad variety of M&A transactions, including public company acquisitions, mergers, dispositions and separations (including spin-offs), tender offers, negotiated and unsolicited transactions, auctions, proxy solicitations, joint ventures, restructurings and various forms of related financings. The firm also provides advice on corporate governance, tax, employee benefits, antitrust, intellectual property, litigation, financing, bankruptcy and environmental matters relating to these transactions.
     
    Our global presence and well-developed relationships with institutions, regulatory agencies and law firms throughout the world allow us to provide access to services and information unique in scope within the global legal community. We also devote a significant amount of time and resources to analyze the impact of regulatory developments. This allows us to closely monitor legal developments and anticipate legislative and regulatory changes to help our clients operate at the forefront. Together with lawyers experienced in cross-border transactions in other groups, such as capital markets, finance, derivatives and tax, our team has significant multi- disciplinary experience in cross-border transactions.
     
    The firm regularly represents prominent public and private corporations in various industries, as well as financial institutions, in their M&A assignments. Sidley continuously ranks among the top firms in several league table categories.
    www.sidley.com
  • Stikeman Elliott LLP (Canada) logo
    Stikeman Elliott LLP (Canada)
    Stikeman Elliott’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group is perennially among the most active in Canada. It frequently ranks as a top firm in M&A, capital markets and corporate-commercial law by industry league tables and directories, and is widely regarded as a leader in business litigation. Its other areas of expertise include practice areas include securities, banking and finance, competition and foreign investment, tax, restructuring, energy, real estate, project development, intellectual property, employment and labour, and pensions. With offices in Montréal, Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver as well as in London, New York and Sydney, Stikeman Elliott delivers a high standard of legal advice to clients domestically and internationally.
    www.stikeman.com
  • Vinson & Elkins LLP logo
    Vinson & Elkins LLP
    For over a century, Vinson & Elkins lawyers have provided innovative business solutions for clients whose needs are as diverse as the entities they represent. Our lawyers offer experienced legal counsel and top-tier service to sophisticated corporate clients in numerous industries. Vinson & Elkins is recognized as a national tier 1 law firm in 16 practice areas, with a total of 33 national rankings (2024 U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms”). With offices located in financial centers, energy hubs, and political capitals across the globe, our lawyers provide strategic legal advice on our clients’ most challenging and complex transactional, regulatory, and dispute resolution matters, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, investments, project developments, financings, arbitrations, lawsuits, environmental matters, tax cases, intellectual property matters, restructurings/reorganizations, and regulatory proceedings.
    www.velaw.com
  • Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP logo
    Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
    Founded in 1931, Weil has provided legal services to the largest public companies, private equity firms and financial institutions for more than 90 years. Widely recognized by those covering the legal profession, Weil’s lawyers regularly advise clients globally on their most complex Litigation, Corporate, Restructuring, and Tax, Executive Compensation & Benefits matters. Weil has been a pioneer in establishing a geographic footprint that has allowed the Firm to partner with clients wherever they do business. 
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