In global M&A transactions, litigation is not a by-product, but a strategic and commercial lever. Linklaters’ global M&A litigation expertise spans Europe, the Americas and Asia.
The world’s leading businesses rely on the firm’s specialist litigators to devise the appropriate strategy to handle complex, cross-border and high-value M&A litigation.
The group advises on all aspects of private and public M&A litigation and related issues around the world. Linklaters’ litigators are experienced in all aspects of M&A transactions and have industry-leading expertise in disputes relating to public offers and warranty agreements.
Major international listed companies, banks and investment funds trust Linklaters to understand their business requirements and solve their most exacting and potentially damaging transactional disputes. A strategic, rather than a mechanistic, approach to M&A litigation is the group’s hallmark.
Recent M&A litigation cases include advising
- BP in relation to the shareholder dispute surrounding its Russian joint venture, TNK-BP
- France Télécom within the context of various actions for damages and further stock corporation law proceedings in connection with an aborted joint venture with a German telecommunications company
- Espírito Santo Saúde (one of the main players in the healthcare sector in Portugal) in a post-acquisition dispute with the seller of a hospital in the north of Portugal
- a major investment bank in proceedings related to an LBO brought by a former shareholder of the target company who claimed for the early redemption of his bonds alleging mis-management on the part of the bank.
- a major investment bank in adversary proceeding brought by HA-LO Industries, Inc. arising out of HA-LO's acquisition of an internet start-up company. Linklaters won the dismissal, after trial, of all claims against our client.
- minority shareholder of a sugar manufacturer company who wanted to force purchase of its shares by the majority shareholder, by enforcing an alleged liquidity pact
