From initial due diligence to post-closing integration, our M&A team provides comprehensive support throughout the transaction lifecycle. Leveraging our extensive experience and industry insights, we assist clients in evaluating strategic opportunities, structuring transactions, conducting negotiations, and navigating regulatory complexities to maximize value and ensure seamless transitions.

Our seasoned litigators specialize in handling complex corporate disputes and breach of contract actions arising from business transactions. With a track record of success in state and federal courts, arbitration proceedings, and alternative dispute resolution forums, we vigorously advocate for our clients’ interests, seeking swift and equitable resolutions to contractual disputes while safeguarding business relationships and reputational interests.

Our attorneys possess a wealth of experience in guiding clients through complex corporate buyouts, restructurings, and reorganizations. Whether you’re seeking to divest non-core assets, merge with a strategic partner, or restructure your capitalization, we provide strategic counsel to optimize outcomes, minimize disruption, and preserve shareholder value.  

Our team of valuation experts and corporate attorneys collaborates to provide comprehensive guidance on business valuation methodologies, financial analysis, and long-term buyout provisions. Whether you’re contemplating a merger, acquisition, or shareholder buyout, we leverage our financial acumen and legal expertise to help clients navigate complex valuation issues and negotiate favorable terms. 

In an era of heightened regulatory scrutiny and evolving legal landscapes, our compliance and regulatory team offers proactive guidance to help businesses navigate complex regulatory frameworks and mitigate compliance risks. From conducting compliance assessments to implementing robust compliance programs, we assist clients in achieving and maintaining regulatory compliance across diverse industry sectors. 

A business and corporate transactions attorney handles the legal work involved in running, growing, and transferring a company. Core services include entity formation, contract drafting and negotiation, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, regulatory compliance, and commercial dispute resolution. At Kelley Kronenberg, our attorneys work across more than 40 practice areas, so clients receive coordinated legal support across every aspect of their business.

The earlier the better. Outside counsel adds the most value during entity formation, contract negotiations, acquisitions, ownership transitions, and periods of growth. For private equity firms and deal teams, engaging transaction counsel at the start of diligence rather than at closing surfaces risk early, when there is still time to price it into the deal or walk away.

A merger combines two companies into one entity. An acquisition involves one company purchasing another. Both require due diligence, regulatory review, contract drafting, and post-close integration planning. Legal counsel structures the deal to protect your interests, identifies hidden liabilities, negotiates key terms, and keeps the transaction on schedule. Kelley Kronenberg handles buy-side and sell-side transactions across a range of industries, including healthcare, insurance, and other regulated sectors.

The core documents are a shareholders agreement or operating agreement, a term sheet, and subscription agreements, along with any required regulatory filings. Depending on the structure, you may also need non-disclosure agreements, non-compete provisions, and representations and warranties. Properly drafted agreements protect both parties and establish clear expectations before money changes hands.

Outside general counsel gives your business access to senior legal advice without the cost of a full-time in-house attorney. Counsel advises on contracts, employment matters, regulatory compliance, risk management, and corporate governance on an ongoing basis. For growing companies and private equity portfolio companies, this model provides consistent legal oversight across business functions at a fraction of BigLaw rates.

A corporate buyout transfers ownership of a company or business unit from one party to another. Common structures include management buyouts, private equity acquisitions, and partner buyouts governed by a shareholder or operating agreement. Legal counsel designs the transaction structure, negotiates terms, addresses tax and valuation considerations, and manages the transition so business operations stay on track.

Look for demonstrated experience in your industry, attorneys who have handled deals of similar size and complexity, and a team that communicates clearly and moves quickly. Responsiveness matters as much as expertise in time-sensitive transactions. For middle-market companies and private equity deals, firms that integrate across practice areas and keep senior attorneys involved throughout the deal tend to produce better outcomes than those that hand work off to junior associates.

Yes. Kelley Kronenberg’s Private Equity Team works with PE firms, family offices, investment banks, and middle-market deal teams across the full transaction lifecycle. The team includes attorneys with direct operator backgrounds: a former Big-4 consultant and interim COO, a former cruise line Executive Vice President and General Counsel, a former Chief Legal Officer who simultaneously ran legal for a major auto group and a boat manufacturer, and a technology attorney who is also a licensed NFL agent with advanced credentials in AI, data privacy, and intellectual property. That experience allows the team to identify deal risks that generalist counsel often misses, particularly in regulated industries, technology assets, and cross-practice exposure areas like labor, cybersecurity, and compliance. Kelley Kronenberg engages as lead transaction counsel, co-counsel alongside existing deal attorneys, or targeted diligence counsel for specific risk areas.