Corporate / M&A

We help you all the way through the M&A process

With the resources of over 700 corporate lawyers in over 42 countries, over 40 of whom are based in the Sweden, we can advise you in all aspects of your Mergers & Acquisition transactions.

CMS Wistrand assists both Swedish and international companies in their role as buyers, sellers or investors in connection with domestic and cross-border acquisitions, divestments and investments. We have a strong position as transaction advisor, and are constantly ranked as one of the leading Swedish law firms by Mergermarket, a global M&A analysis company, whose ranking charts depict the number of transactions completed.

Full service approach and cross-team collaboration

We utilize the firm’s full-service offering throughout the M&A process, leveraging expertise from associated areas such as for competition, data protection, tax, real estate, environment, and employment matters. Recent market developments have also seen us working closer together with our Top Tier-ranked Insolvency practice on distressed M&A matters.

A number of complex issues arise with a transaction. These are closely linked to the type of business being undertaken by the target company. Lawyers from other practice groups, such as employment, tax, banking and finance, IPR, environment, and competition, can be consulted if and when required. As a result, we can offer our clients pertinent and full-service expertise for their transactions.

We provide advice in areas such as:

• Share- and asset purchase agreements
• Investment agreements
• Joint ventures
• Legal due diligence
• Warranty & Indemnity (W&I) insurance
• Shareholder agreements
• Capital raisings
• IPOs
• Tender offers
• Share issuance and other corporate law matters
• Restructuring
• Tax
• Financing and securitization
• Family succession and other ownership issues
• Merger control and other competition law issues