Thompson & Knight attorneys represent businesses and investors in all aspects of mergers and acquisitions, consolidations, combinations, and asset sales. In the past two years, we have assisted our clients in closing more than $15.5 billion in M&A transactions.

The Firm is recognized in the Corporate/M&A category of the prestigious Chambers USA 2009 legal directory published by Chambers & Partners, which notes that Thompson & Knight's "large Texas team is extraordinarily active in M&A and capital markets transactions" as well as the fact that the Firm handles "M&A and corporate finance matters for international clients...calling upon the resources of the firm's wider network." Additionally, The Legal 500 US 2009 by Legalease specifically praises the Firm's "impressive energy M&A practice."

We advise the executives, boards of directors and special committees, investment bankers, financial institutions, and investors of acquiring companies and target companies, including public and private corporations and partnerships, limited liability companies, and other business entities. Our focus is on capital formation, corporate governance, securities, and other regulatory issues as we structure innovative deals that accomplish our clients' business goals.

Our lawyers analyze, structure, negotiate, and manage merger, acquisition, and disposition transactions, helping our clients formulate the tactics, structure, and negotiating positions necessary to complete the deal. We have an understanding of corporate governance that combines our decades of corporate counsel experience with astute commercial litigation skills, using it to advise our clients' boards of directors on business judgment, disclosure, regulatory compliance, and shareholder communication issues. In transactions involving minority stockholders or other owners, we help clients identify and address governance issues, conflicts of interest, and fiduciary responsibilities for an effective response to dissident stockholders and stockholders with statutory or contractual appraisal rights.