Mergers & Acquisitions
Morgan Business Counsel advises clients on mergers, acquisitions, and strategic transactions at moments where ownership, control, and long-term positioning are being reshaped.
Our M&A practice is focused on transactions where structure and sequencing materially affect outcomes. We work with companies, founders, and leadership teams navigating acquisitions, sales, strategic investments, and liquidity events where legal decisions made at the transaction stage determine value well beyond closing.
This work is rarely about documentation alone. It is about aligning legal structure with commercial objectives, negotiating leverage, and long-term considerations around governance, control, and future optionality.
Representative M&A experience includes:
Representative M&A experience includes:
Serving as company counsel in the sale of a founder-owned operating business to a strategic acquirer, including negotiation of transaction documentation and post-closing adjustment mechanics.
Advising a U.S. manufacturing company in connection with a substantial strategic investment by a major French industrial conglomerate, including negotiations to preserve founder control while accommodating financing and long-term corporate objectives.
Advising a specialty consumer brand in connection with a strategic equity investment by a global consumer products company, including governance, control, and growth-related structuring.
Advising a technology-focused digital freight brokerage on acquisitions designed to expand services and consolidate market position, including equity-based transactions supported by institutional financing.
Our M&A Work Typically Involves
We advise clients on acquisitions and dispositions of operating businesses, asset and equity transactions, strategic and minority investments, ownership transitions, and negotiated exits. This work frequently involves structuring earn-outs, rollover equity, and post-closing adjustment mechanisms, as well as advising on governance, control, and risk allocation in transaction settings.
Our role is to help clients move through these transactions with clarity, discipline, and a focus on what matters most at each stage.
How We Work
M&A engagements are intentionally scoped and led with senior legal judgment from the outset.
We work closely with clients and their advisors to anticipate pressure points, manage risk thoughtfully, and structure transactions in a way that supports both near-term execution and long-term goals. The decision to engage is mutual and grounded in alignment around objectives, timing, and approach.