Motieka & Audzevicius‘ private equity practice encompasses fund formation and transactions, including buyout, venture capital, distressed debt, real estate opportunity, and hedge funds. Our lawyers have experienced with acquisitions and financings of public and private companies and with a variety of exit strategies, including spin-offs, recapitalizations, mergers and IPOs. Our team works evaluating the investment under consideration and acquisition proposals, counselling on structuring and presenting bids, negotiating and drafting acquisition and financing agreements, right through the completion of the transaction, also representing private equity firms and other parties involved in private equity deals, designing tax efficient structures.
We act on behalf of sellers, purchasing funds, managers and financing banks in all types of leveraged acquisitions. We are particularly active in acquisitions of listed companies with a view to their subsequent delisting, successive purchases in specific industries, secondary sales between funds, IPOs and sales to industrial operators. We also act in acquisitions of and processes to restructure companies in distress. Our integrated international experience covers the entire range of legal areas relevant to the successful completion of complex regional and cross-border transactions, including corporate, commercial, banking and finance, tax structuring, structured finance, capital markets, competition, executive compensation and benefits, ownership incentives, regulatory, intellectual property, corporate governance and restructuring. We understand the changing environment of the private equity market and can respond quickly with innovative structuring and financing for all types of transactions.