Practitioners’ Guide for M&A in Europe

The guide, written by experienced act legal M&A lawyers, offers short and practical answers to legal, tax and financial issues that investors face connected to cross-border and domestic investments. In this comprehensive handbook we do not quote legal norms but briefly and comprehensively summarize the different aspects to be considered in a M&A transaction:

• Most important non-legal soft triggers for a successful acquisition
• Players in M&A transactions and transaction cost triggers
• Main transaction documents
• Purchase price
• Key employment issues and influence of employees and trade unions in a transaction
• Relevant types of legal entities
• Tax aspects
• Formal requirements for a transaction
• Share deal vs. asset deal
• Other special types of transactions
• Obligations / liabilities due to negotiations
• Disclosure obligations in connection with a transaction
• Legal restrictions on acquisitions
• Distressed transactions and acquisitions out of insolvency