M&A Disputes

A strategic, rather than a mechanistic, approach to M&A disputes is the group’s hallmark.

The world’s leading businesses, such as banks, investment funds and major international listed companies rely on the firm’s specialist disputes team to devise the appropriate strategy to handle complex, cross-border and high-value M&A litigation and arbitration, to understand their business requirements and to solve their most exacting and potentially damaging transactional disputes.

The group advises on all aspects of private and public M&A litigation and related issues around the world. Linklaters’ disputes lawyers are experienced in all aspects of M&A transactions and have industry-leading expertise in disputes relating to public offers and warranty agreements.

We also have significant experience of providing advice to clients in the midst of M&A deals, particularly between signing and completion where one of the parties wishes to find a way out of the deal. This has been particularly prevalent during the COVID-19 pandemic, in a wide range of sectors. Depending on the client’s position, we help them assess their options for an exit based on an often evolving fact pattern and help them identify and mitigate the risks that are involved, or we help the client enforce the terms of the deal. We have considerable experience of commencing court or arbitration proceedings and making or resisting applications for interim relief to enhance or protect the client’s commercial and legal leverage in such scenarios. When providing this advice, our teams across Litigation, Arbitration, Investigations and Corporate work side by side with the client.