Frantz Ward’s Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group delivers strategic counsel through every phase of M&A transactions, from initial negotiations to post-closing integration, ensuring seamless execution and protection of client interests. Our M&A team is supplemented by the firm’s depth of experience in a variety of disciplines, including bankruptcy and creditor’s rights, employee benefits, intellectual property, labor and employment, real estate, and tax law.
Our attorneys regularly handle:
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Spin-offs and carve-outs
- Private equity investments
- Corporate divestitures
- Joint ventures and strategic alliances
- Restructurings and workouts
Our M&A Practice Group advises privately held and publicly traded companies across industries, private equity investors, banks and financial institutions, hospitals, and universities.
We emphasize collaborative partnership, prioritizing a deep understanding of our client’s business objectives. This foundation allows us to provide pragmatic, business-focused, and cost-effective solutions.
Representative Matters
- Represented an investment group in the $300 million purchase of 37 skilled nursing and assisted nursing facilities.
- Represented a public company in the $150 million purchase of a chemicals manufacturer.
- Represented an investment group in the $140 million purchase of 17 skilled nursing and assisted nursing facilities.
- Represented the special committee of the board of directors of a publicly held transportation company in a $56 million going private merger with a private equity fund.
- Counsel to a real estate developer in connection with the acquisition of a portfolio of properties worth more than $40 million.
- Represented owner/operators of a medical product manufacturer in the $35 million sale of the company to a foreign investment company.
- Serving as local counsel in the acquisition of a hospital system by a national hospital services operator doing business in multiple states, including assistance with providing notice to the Ohio Attorney General of the transaction.
- Assisting in the acquisition and consolidation of various medical practice groups into a single legal entity on behalf of an academic medical center.
