USA TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS
Trends and Developments Contributed by: W. Todd Carlisle, John H. Cooper, R. Michael Murphy and David W. Drum Dentons
Dentons is a global law firm with more than 150 M&A lawyers in over 40 locations across the USA, and with over 1,000 M&A lawyers in more than 80 countries across the globe. Dentons has established a national and international reputation as one of the premier providers of tailored legal solutions in M&A. Whether its clients are on the buy-side or sell-side of a transaction, they rely on Dentons’ seasoned US and global teams for sophisticated advice at every stage of the M&A process. Dentons routinely repre -
sents buyers and sellers, both strategic and finan - cial, in their transactional activities; its clients include Fortune 500 and middle-market companies, fund sponsors and other investors. Enjoying relationships with investment banks, accounting firms and lenders throughout the USA and around the world, the firm can swiftly assemble a team of professionals with the required skills, experience and locations to execute deals in virtually all markets and geographies.
Authors
W. Todd Carlisle is a shareholder in Dentons’ Birmingham office and served as President of Dentons Sirote from 2015 to 2022. He is a member of the corporate practice and leads the Dentons Sirote M&A team. His
R. Michael Murphy is a shareholder in Dentons’ Birmingham office and serves as the chair of the Dentons Sirote corporate practice. His work covers corporate and securities law – in particular, M&A, financial services,
practice focuses on M&A and general corporate representation, with an emphasis on the financial services and forest products industries. Carlisle represents national property/casualty and life insurance distribution platforms, broker-dealers, regional and national banks, and wealth manage - ment firms. Carlisle is also actively engaged in the representation of clients in the forest products, consumer products and manufacturing industries.
private equity and venture capital, regulatory, compli - ance and risk management, and securities matters. Representative matters include serving as outside counsel to national insurance, banking and financial services organisations; as buyer’s counsel in connec - tion with the acquisition of more than 50 financial service firms by a national financial product distribution firm; and as counsel to both issuers and investors in connection with investments in start-up companies. practises in the areas of corporate and securities as well as tax law, with an emphasis on M&A, private equity and venture capital, and general counsel services. Representative matters include representa - tion of private and public companies in various industries, in transactions ranging from USD500,000 to USD1 billion. He also has experience with transac - tion tax analysis and pre-merger notification filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act. Drum holds an LLM in Taxation from the Univer - sity of Florida and is a member of the Alabama, Florida and Georgia State Bar Associations. David W. Drum is a shareholder in Dentons’ Birmingham office who
John H. Cooper is a shareholder in Dentons’ Birmingham office and former President of Dentons Sirote in Alabama. His practice spans corpo - rate, securities and tax law, with an emphasis on M&A, private equity and
venture capital, securities, business and succession planning, corporate finance, corporate tax, directors and officers, executive compensation, and general counsel services. He is a member of the tax section of the ABA, Alabama State Tax Section, and the Alabama State Bar, and is a former adjunct faculty member of the University of Alabama School of Law for Advanced Corporate Tax.
1387 CHAMBERS.COM
Powered by FlippingBook