Doing Deals 2025: The Art of M&A Transactional Practice

Why You Should Attend

Expectations for the M&A market are running high with the November presidential election behind us. As dealmakers widely expect a more deal-friendly regulatory environment, providing ballast to M&A activity in 2025, there are a host of macroeconomic and geopolitical factors – wars, tariffs, tax policy, interest rates, stock and financing market fluctuations, and periods of stock market volatility – that could create uncertainty in M&A activity.  We are also seeing a significant amount of new Delaware M&A case law (including on controlling shareholders) as well as a large number of hostile and activist campaigns, including the second season of universal proxy ballot. These developments are among the points that will be discussed at the Doing Deals program.

A prominent faculty of top outside and in-house lawyers and investment bankers will share their years of experience and teach you how best to represent your clients by creatively structuring, coordinating and managing M&A transactions.

What You Will Learn

After completing this program, participants will be able to:

• Choose a transaction structure: Navigating the world of mergers and tender offers
• Recognize special considerations when doing cross-border deals, like getting the deal done in an increasingly difficult and uncertain regulatory environment
• Understand the critical importance of pre-deal documents, such as confidentiality agreements 
• Master the nuts and bolts of definitive agreements – representations and warranties, covenants, conditions and indemnification provisions
• Launch or defend against a hostile deal or an activist hedge fund 

Who Should Attend

The program is geared to attorneys in private practice or in-house corporate counsel who seek a practical overview of key issues that arise in the most common types of corporate transactions. This is a full overview of all the skills you need to structure a transaction, draft preliminary and definitive agreements and perform the appropriate due diligence.

Program Level: Basic

Prerequisites: An interest in mergers & acquisitions.

Advanced Preparation: None