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Accenture Strategy operates at the intersection of business and technology, combining deep industry expertise, advanced analytics capabilities and human-led design methodologies that enable clients to act with speed and confidence. By identifying clear, actionable paths to accelerate competitive agility, Accenture Strategy helps leaders in the C-suite envision and execute strategies that drive growth in the face of digital transformation.
American International Group, Inc. (AIG) is a leading international insurance organization serving customers in more than 100 countries and jurisdictions.
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP is one of the world’s largest law firms. A frequent recipient of industry recognition for its strength in litigation and high-stakes appellate work, its leadership in groundbreaking transactions and its depth in public policy, Akin Gump provides a comprehensive suite of services for global companies and local individuals.
Allen & Overy is a multinational law firm headquartered in London. A member of the UK's Magic Circle of leading law firms, Allen & Overy is widely considered to be one of the world's elite law firms, advising national and multinational corporations, financial institutions, and governments.
Alston & Bird LLP has grown to become a leading national and international firm while remaining steeped in a culture with client service and teamwork as the cornerstones of all that they do. The firm develops, assembles and nurtures the strongest and broadest array of legal talent and expertise necessary to meet their clients’ needs in an ever-changing and fast-paced environment.
Aon plc (NYSE:AON) is the leading global provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, and human resources solutions, consulting and outsourcing. Through its more than 62,000 colleagues worldwide, Aon unites to deliver distinctive client value via innovative and effective risk management and workforce productivity solutions. Aon's industry-leading global resources and technical expertise are delivered locally in over 120 countries.
Ashurst is a leading global law firm. They advise local and international corporations, financial institutions and government clients.
Bain & Company is one of the world's leading management consulting firms. They work with top executives to help them make better decisions, convert those decisions to actions, and deliver the sustainable success the executives desire.
Baker & McKenzie advises many of the world's most dynamic and successful business organizations through more than 4,000 locally qualified lawyers and 6,000 professional staff in 72 offices in 45 countries.
Baker Botts is an international law firm of approximately 725 lawyers practicing throughout a network of 14 offices around the globe.
BakerHostetler, one of the nation’s largest law firms, represents clients around the globe. With offices coast to coast, the firm's more than 900 lawyers litigate cases and resolve disputes that potentially threaten clients’ competitiveness, navigate the laws and regulations that shape the global economy, and help clients develop and close deals that fuel their strategic growth.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (Blakes) is one of Canada’s top business law firms and provides exceptional legal services to leading businesses in Canada and around the world.
BMO Harris Bank, N.A. is a United States bank based in Chicago. They have a team of over 10,000 people, 600 plus branches and 1300 ATMs and specialties include commercial banking, personal banking and small business banking.
The Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm and the world's leading advisor on business strategy. They partner with clients from the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors in all regions to identify their highest-value opportunities, address their most critical challenges, and transform their enterprises.
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, a global law firm established in 1792, serves a diverse client base, including many of the world's leading financial institutions and corporations in more than 50 countries. The firm has earned a reputation for crafting innovative business and financial solutions and developing precedent-setting legal strategies to achieve their clients' goals.
Cass Business School is among the global elite of business schools that hold the gold standard of 'triple-crown' accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the Association of MBAs (AMBA) and the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS).
Since the law firm's founding in 1913, Chapman and Cutler has focused on finance. They have represented market participants in all aspects of banking, corporate finance and securities, and public finance transactions since their inception.
Chase Commercial Bank serves more than 24,000 clients nationally, including corporations, municipalities, financial institutions and not-for-profit entities, with annual revenue generally ranging from $20 million to $2 billion. Chase also partners with nearly 35,000 real estate investors/owners.
Citibank is the consumer division of financial services multinational Citigroup. Citibank provides credit cards, mortgages, personal loans, commercial loans, and lines of credit.
Cleary Gottlieb is a leading international law firm, with 16 offices located in major financial centers around the world, that has helped shape the globalization of the legal profession for more than 70 years.
Cooley is a law firm which has 900 lawyers across 12 offices in the United States, China and Europe. The firm's practice areas include technology, life sciences, clean technology, real estate, financial services, retail, and energy.
Davis Polk is one of the world’s premier law firms with a range of practices, which span such areas as capital markets, M&A, credit, litigation, antitrust, private equity, tax, financial regulation, investment management, insolvency and restructuring, executive compensation, intellectual property, real estate, and trusts and estates. For over 160 years, its lawyers have advised industry-leading companies and global financial institutions on their most challenging legal and business matters.
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is a premier law firm with market-leading practices, a global perspective and strong New York roots. The firm's clients look to them to bring a distinctively high degree of quality, intensity and creativity to resolve legal challenges effectively and cost efficiently.
Dechert LLP is an international law firm with offices throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Dechert focuses on core transactional and litigation practices, providing world-class, top-ranked services to major corporations, financial institutions, and private funds worldwide.
Deloitte LLP refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, a UK private company limited by guarantee, and its network of member firms, each of which is a legally separate and independent entity.
Dentons is a global law firm driven to provide clients a competitive edge in an increasingly complex and interconnected world. A top 20 firm on the Acritas 2014 Global Elite Brand Index, Dentons is committed to challenging the status quo in delivering consistent and uncompromising quality in new and inventive ways.
DLA Piper is a global law firm capable of taking care of the most important legal needs of clients wherever they do business. DLA Piper today has more than 4,200 lawyers in offices throughout Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. The firm represents more clients in a broader range of geographies and practice disciplines than virtually any other law firm in the world.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP is one of the 100 largest law firms in the United States. The firm's lawyers and staff serve clients in more than 60 areas of legal practice with locations across the United States and in Canada, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.
Duff & Phelps is a leading global financial advisory and investment banking firm that provides expertise in the areas of valuation, transactions, financial restructuring, alternative assets, disputes and taxation.
EY is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. The insights and quality services they deliver help build trust and confidence in the capital markets and in economies the world over.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago is one of 12 regional Reserve Banks across the United States that, together with the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., serve as the central bank for the United States.
Fenwick & West provides comprehensive legal services to ground-breaking technology and life sciences companies at every stage of their lifecycle.
Freshfields is a leading global law firm for the world's most prestigious businesses. In the U.S. Freshfields is part of a globally integrated law firm known for its prestigious client base and transformational strategic work. They have some of the top U.S. attorneys in the fields of M&A, corporate governance and defense, enforcement/investigations, antitrust, CFIUS, employee benefits, IP, tax, and litigation.
They are also a clear market leader in Europe and Asia in corporate/M&A, antitrust/regulatory, private equity, and tax, among others. These strengths have helped us build a reputation for breaking new legal ground, handling the highest-profile transactions and solving our clients’ most complex challenges.
Fried Frank serves as counsel to many of the world’s largest companies from offices strategically located in the world’s principal financial centers.
FTI Consulting is an independent global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations manage change, mitigate risk and resolve disputes: financial, legal, operational, political & regulatory, reputational and transactional.
From Southern California beginnings in 1890, Gibson Dunn has grown to a global law firm providing comprehensive services across borders, jurisdictions and legal disciplines. Their more than 1,200 lawyers are located in 20 offices in major cities throughout the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and South America.
Greenberg Traurig, LLP is an international, multidisciplinary law firm with approximately 1750 attorneys and government law and policy professionals in 36 locations in the United States, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Harvard Business School located in Boston educates leaders who make a difference in the world.
HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management is a private business school based in Saxony, Germany. Established in 1898, it is one of the world's oldest business schools.
Hogan Lovells is a global legal practice that helps corporations, financial institutions and governments across the spectrum of their business and legal issues globally and locally. They have over 2,500 lawyers operating out of more than 45 offices in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and the United States.
Holland & Knight is a global law firm with 1,000 lawyers in 18 U.S. offices, as well as Abu Dhabi, Beijing, Bogota and Mexico City. Holland & Knight is among the world's largest law firms, providing representation in litigation, business, real estate and governmental law. Interdisciplinary practice groups and industry-based teams provide clients with access to attorneys throughout the firm, regardless of location.
Houlihan Lokey is an international investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, financial restructuring, and valuation. The firm serves corporations, institutions, and governments worldwide with offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
K&L Gates represents leading global corporations, growth and middle-market companies, capital markets participants and entrepreneurs in every major industry group as well as public sector entities, educational institutions, philanthropic organizations and individuals.
Founded in New York in 1917, Kaye Scholer combines the continuity and business acumen of a century-old law firm with a practical forward-looking, results-driven approach.
Celebrating more than 130 years of service, King & Spalding is an international law firm that represents a broad array of clients, including half of the Fortune Global 100, with 900 lawyers in 18 offices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The firm also represents hundreds of clients with new ventures and mid-sized companies in emerging industries.
KWM is the largest international law firm in Asia, the largest firm in the world headquartered outside of the US and UK, and one of the top 25 law firms in the world, with circa $1 billion revenue and more than 2,700 lawyers including more than 550 partners across 30 locations including China, Hong Kong, Australia, the United Kingdom, continental Europe, the Middle East, Japan and the US.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP is a law firm with approximately 1,600 lawyers representing global clients in complex litigation and dispute resolution/arbitration, corporate and tax, restructuring, and intellectual property and technology matters. The Firm has offices in Beijing, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Shanghai and Washington, D.C.
KPMG is a global organization of independent professional services firms providing audit, tax and advisory services. The firm operates in 147 countries and territories and has more than 219,000 people working in member firms around the world. KPMG LLP is a member firm of the KPMG global organization of independent member firms associated with KPMG International Limited, a private English company limited by guarantee.
Latham & Watkins is a global law firm with approximately 2,100 lawyers in its offices located in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States. The firm has internationally recognized practices in a wide spectrum of transactional, litigation, corporate and regulatory areas.
Lazard is a financial advisory and asset management firm that engages in investment banking, asset management, and other financial services primarily with institutional clients. Lazard is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda, with principal offices in New York, Paris and London.
Lincoln International specializes in merger and acquisition advisory services, debt advisory services, private capital raising and restructuring advice on mid-market transactions. Lincoln International also provides fairness opinions, valuations and pension advisory services on a wide range of transaction sizes.
Mayer Brown is a leading law firm advising clients across the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. The firm is known for providing creative solutions to complex problems on behalf of businesses, governments and individuals.
McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm that serves leading businesses, governments, non-governmental organizations, and not-for-profits.
Mercer is a global consulting leader helping clients around the world advance the health, wealth and careers of their most vital asset — their people.
Milbank is a premier international law firm handling high-profile, complex cases and business transactions through offices in New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Frankfurt, Munich, Hong Kong, London, Singapore, Tokyo, Beijing, and Sao Paulo. Milbank's offices work together on an integrated basis giving the firm an extraordinary global presence and allowing them to have a client base comprised of the world's leading companies and financial institutions.
For over 80 years, Morris James has been serving the needs of Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, government agencies, law firms, and our local Delaware business owners and community.
With more than a thousand lawyers in 16 offices around the world, Morrison & Foerster offers clients comprehensive, global legal services in business and litigation. The firm is distinguished by its unsurpassed expertise in finance, life sciences, and technology, legendary litigation skills, and an unrivaled reach across the Pacific Rim, particularly in Japan and China.
NERA Economic Consulting is a global firm of experts dedicated to applying economic, finance, and quantitative principles to complex business and legal challenges.
Nixon Peabody LLP is a Global 100 law firm, with more than 600 attorneys collaborating across major practice areas in cities across the U.S., Europe and Asia.
Norton Rose Fulbright is a global law firm. They provide the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. The firm has more than 4000 lawyers based in more than 50 cities across Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, Africa and the Middle East.
New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business is one of the nation's premier management education schools and research centers.
Orrick is a leading global law firm with a particular focus on serving companies in the technology, energy and financial sectors. The firm is recognized worldwide for delivering the highest-quality, commercially-oriented legal advice and for its culture of innovation and collaboration.
Paderborn University is one of the fourteen universities in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany.
Paul Hastings is a leading international law firm that provides innovative legal solutions to many of the world's top financial institutions and Fortune Global 500 companies.
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP is a firm of more than 900 lawyers who collaborate with clients to help them solve their most challenging legal problems and achieve their business goals.
Pepper Hamilton LLP is a multi-practice law firm with more than 500 lawyers. The firm provides corporate, litigation, and regulatory legal services to leading businesses, governmental entities, nonprofit organizations, and individuals throughout the nation and the world.
With more than 1,000 lawyers in 19 offices across the United States and Asia, Perkins Coie LLP represents great companies across a wide range of industries and stages of growth—from startups to FORTUNE 50 corporations.
Pillsbury is a full-service law firm with a keen industry focus on energy & natural resources, financial services, real estate & construction, and technology. Based in the world's major financial, technology and energy centers, Pillsbury counsels clients on global regulatory, litigation and corporate matters.
Polsinelli is an Am Law 100 firm with more than 800 attorneys in 20 offices. The firm’s attorneys provide value through practical legal counsel infused with business insight, and focus on healthcare, financial services, real estate, intellectual property, mid-market corporate, labor and employment, and business litigation.
Proskauer is a leading global law firm focused on creating value. The firm's roots go back to 1875, when they were founded in New York City. With 700+ lawyers active in virtually every major market worldwide, Proskauer is recognized not only for their legal excellence, but also their dedication to client service.
PwC’s Deals practitioners help corporate and private equity executives navigate transactions to increase value and returns. PwC's experienced M&A specialists assist clients on a range of transactions from smaller and mid-sized deals to the most complex transactions. PwC’s Strategy& is a global team of practical strategists, committed to helping you seize essential advantage by working alongside you to solve your toughest problems, and capture your greatest opportunities.
RBC Capital Markets is a premier investment bank that provides a focused set of products and services to corporations, institutional investors and governments around the world. With more than 6,950 professionals, they operate out of 70 offices in 15 countries across North America, the U.K., Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region.
Reed Smith represents many of the world's leading companies in complex litigation and other high-stakes disputes, cross-border and other strategic transactions, and crucial regulatory matters.
Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, founded in 1967, is the only leading global consultancy of German heritage and European origin. With 2,400 employees working in 36 countries, they have successful operations in all major international markets. Their 50 offices are located in the key global business hubs.
Ropes & Gray is a leading global law firm with more than 1,100 legal professionals in offices in Boston, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Tokyo, and Washington, DC.
Shearman & Sterling is a multinational law firm headquartered in New York City. They have over 850 lawyers around the world speaking more than 60 languages and practicing U.S., English, French, German, Italian, Hong Kong, OHADA and Saudi law. The firm represents many of the world’s leading corporations and major financial institutions, as well as emerging growth companies, governments and state-owned enterprises, often working on ground-breaking, precedent-setting matters.
Sheppard Mullin is a full service AmLaw 100 firm. Global companies turn to Sheppard Mullin to handle a full range of corporate and technology matters, high stakes litigation and complex financial transactions.
Sidley Austin LLP is the sixth-largest U.S.-based corporate law firm with 1900 lawyers and offices in 19 cities worldwide with headquarters in Chicago. It is a full-service law firm, with broad experience in transaction and litigation matters.
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is one of the world’s leading international law firms with offices in New York, Beijing, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, São Paulo, Seoul, Tokyo and Washington, D.C.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP represents a broad spectrum of clients, including approximately 50 percent of the Fortune 250 industrial and service corporations, as well as financial and governmental entities, small, entrepreneurial companies, and cultural, educational and charitable institutions.
Solcargo is a top tier law firm in Mexico, with a highly qualified, internationally educated team with working experience in tier 1 law firms across the world. The firm performs corporate engagements for Fortune 500, large multinational companies, ambitious middle market and emerging growth companies, and capital market participants including public and private investment organizations, investment banks, commercial lenders and other financial institutions.
Squire Sanders is one of the strongest, most geographically diverse legal practices in the world, with offices across the Americas, Asia Pacific and Europe and attorneys that are fluent in more than 30 languages and admitted to practice in roughly 130 jurisdictions. The firm represents a mix of clients, from Fortune 100 conglomerates to privately held emerging companies and individuals, as well as government bodies around the globe.
SRS Acquiom is the global leader for managing administrative needs in private M&A — innovating new ways to complete transactions that help merger parties to close more efficiently and economically. SRS|Acquiom delivers industry-leading services for shareholder representation, payment administration, and escrow investment.
Stanford Law School combines classic and innovative education to prepare students for an interconnected, global world.
The Stanford Graduate School of Business empowers individuals to envision what is possible and make it happen through principled leadership and creative problem solving.
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP provides the highest quality legal advice and representation to clients around the world. S&C is a leader in each of its core practice areas and in each of its geographic markets.
A part of The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business constantly questions and tests ideas, and seeks proof. This extraordinarily effective approach to business leads to new ideas and innovative solutions since 1898.
The University of Delaware, a state-assisted institution, is a Land Grant, Sea Grant, Space Grant, Urban Grant, and Carnegie Research University. The University, with origins in 1743, was chartered by the State of Delaware in 1833.
Vinson & Elkins lawyers are committed to excellence and steeped in the energy and finance industries, offering clients experience handling transactions, investments, projects and disputes worldwide.
Wachtell Lipton has experience in the fields of mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments, takeovers and takeover defense, corporate and securities law and corporate governance. They handle some of the largest, most complex and demanding transactions in the United States and around the world. They counsel both public and private acquirors and targets.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges is an American international law firm, headquartered in New York City with approximately 1,100 lawyers in offices on three continents. The Firm's four departments, Corporate, Litigation, Business Finance & Restructuring & Tax,and Executive Compensation & Benefits, and over two dozen practice groups are consistently recognized as leaders in their respective fields.
Founded in 1881 as the first collegiate business school, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is recognized globally for intellectual leadership and ongoing innovation across every major discipline of business education.
White & Case is one of the world’s leading law firms in the area of mergers and acquisitions, distinguished by the firm's experience and focus on both strategic and private equity transactions, specific industries, and cross-border transactions.
Willamette Management Associates is a national business valuation, forensic analysis, and financial advisory services firm with offices in Chicago, Atlanta, and Portland.
William Blair & Company is a global investment banking and asset management firm. The firm has a commitment to building enduring relationships with clients and providing expertise and solutions to meet their evolving needs.
Willis Towers Watson is a leading global advisory, broking and solutions company that helps clients around the world turn risk into a path for growth.
Willkie, Farr & Gallagher is an elite international law firm of approximately 700 lawyers located in nine offices in six countries.
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP (WilmerHale) provides legal representation across a comprehensive range of practice areas that are critical to the success of its clients. They are 1,000 lawyers strong, with 12 offices in the United States, Europe and Asia.
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is the premier legal advisor to technology, life sciences, and other growth enterprises worldwide. The firm represents companies at every stage of development, from entrepreneurial start-ups to multibillion-dollar global corporations, as well as the venture firms, private equity firms, and investment banks that finance and advise them.
Winston & Strawn LLP is an international law firm with more than 850 attorneys among 18 offices.
Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, one of Delaware's largest law firms, counsels and represents national, international and local clients, handling sophisticated advisory and litigation matters involving bankruptcy, corporate law and intellectual property.
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Transaction Advisors operates the foremost institute for advancing M&A best practice.
We publish a prestigious M&A Journal and conduct M&A Research that provide in-depth information and perspective on the critical issues impacting corporate transactions.
Our goal is to help develop and advance the practice of executing complex transactions by disseminating knowledge that can be applied by corporate and private equity executives.
AUTHORS
We enlist the foremost experts from the world's leading firms in the areas of accounting, consulting, investment banking, insurance, human capital management, financing, law, and academia.
Our contributing authors typically have more than 20 years of transaction advisory experience and hold positions as practice leaders and senior advisors. Most have esteemed designations, licensure, and educational credentials.
We accept contributed papers based solely on the merits of the information and the topical alignment with our audience.
We do not compensate authors, nor do we accept payment for publishing the papers in our collection.
A.T. Kearney is a leading global management consulting firm with offices in more than 40 countries. Since 1926, the firm has been trusted advisors to the world's foremost organizations. A.T. Kearney is a partner-owned firm, committed to helping clients achieve immediate impact and growing advantage on their most mission-critical issues.