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"They have an extraordinary deal flow which really sets them apart. We know that they've seen multiple ways to address an issue and have actually done it, not just read about it."

- CHAMBERS USA source

Bilzin Sumberg’s Corporate Group advises clients on a broad range of mergers and acquisitions transactions. Our team represents public and private companies, private equity firms and their portfolio companies, strategic investors, family offices, management teams, emerging companies and entrepreneurs in their mergers and acquisitions transactions. Our team has experience across many industries, including aviation, business services, consumer products and services, distribution and logistics, education, financial services, healthcare, hospitality, industrials, insurance, life sciences, manufacturing, medical equipment, restaurants, sports and leisure, technology, telecommunications and transportation. Bilzin Sumberg’s Corporate Group also serves as Florida counsel for national and international law firms in connection with mergers and acquisitions transactions.

Whether our client is a middle-market Florida-based entity selling its assets to a NASDAQ company, or a private equity firm acquiring a manufacturer in Latin America, our team leverages its extensive expertise to efficiently and effectively negotiate, document and close transactions while optimizing transaction terms and mitigating risk.

Our team works all manner of mergers and acquisitions transactions, including, among others:

  • Acquisitions and dispositions of businesses
  • Purchases and sales of assets and securities
  • Mergers
  • Spin-offs and carve-outs
  • Exchange offers and tender offers
  • Cross-border transactions
  • Control and minority investments
  • Growth investments
  • Joint ventures and strategic alliances
  • Corporate restructurings, recapitalizations and reorganizations
EXPERIENCE
Experience
Representation of an energy company in its $9.45 billion all-cash acquisition of another energy company, resulting in the creation of the largest utility holding company in the United States.
Experience
Representation of majority shareholder and senior executives of LNR Property Corporation, then an NYSE company, in the $3.8 billion acquisition of LNR Property Corporation by LNR Property Holdings Ltd., an entity controlled by Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. Our clients retained a 25% interest in ...
Experience
Representation of national homebuilder in acquisitions of several homebuilding companies, including ones located in Florida, California, and Illinois, with hundreds of millions of dollars in transaction values.
Experience
Representation of GMexico Transportes, the transportation unit of a Mexico-based mining company, Grupo Mexico, as Florida counsel in the $2 billion acquisition of Florida East Coast Railways. Also assisted with two separate financings related to the acquisition: a $1.55 billion bridge loan and a $26...
Experience
Counsel to a Colombia-based healthcare and pharmaceutical company on its mergerwitha special purpose acquisition company, with the post-mergerentity valued at approximately $1.3 billion.
Experience
Representation of joint venture comprised of two former NYSE companies in $1 billion acquisition by merger of The Newhall Land & Farming Company, former owner of 47,000 acres of land in several states including California. We handled the corporate restructuring of the acquisition and financing v...
INSIGHTS
News February 27, 2025
Bilzin Sumberg is pleased to announce that Erin L. Stafford has been named a Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) Fellow for 2025.
News February 14, 2025
Bilzin Sumberg is pleased to announce that Alex M. Denault has joined the firm as a Partner in the Tax & Private Wealth and Corporate Groups. Alex brings with him nearly two decades of experience counseling clients on domestic and international income tax, mergers and acquisitions, and estate an...
Speaking Engagement September 12, 2024
David M. Seifer and Erin L. Stafford speak on the panelDon’t Get Chomped! Mitigating Risk Through Indemnification and Liability Capsat the ACC South Florida 14th Annual CLE Conference. The session focuses on businesses regular use of indemnification and liability caps to limit their risk.
Press Release August 30, 2024
Corporate & Finance Practice Group Leader David Seifer has been recognized as a Highly Regarded Lawyer in Florida by International Financial Law Review 1000 (IFLR1000). Listed under the “Capital Markets: Equity” and “M&A” category, this is the seventh consecutive year...
Press Release August 15, 2024
Half of Bilzin Sumberg's partners have been recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America©.
Press Release June 6, 2024
Bilzin Sumberg is pleased to announce that each of its practice groups, and over half of its partners, has been recognized as leaders in a broad range of fields in the 2024 edition of Chambers USA, one of the most esteemed legal publications in the world.
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David M. Seifer
Practice Group Leader, Corporate & Finance
Jose Sariego
Partner
Alex M. Denault
Partner
Nathaniel G. Dutt
Of Counsel
Richard M. Goldstein
Chair, Tax & Private Wealth
Alexandra Haller
Associate
Robert W. Lee
Associate